…Oh yeah, spiced peaches:)
I did a reasonable chunk of writing today after some gardening and other chores. 1,500 words on the paying job…another 400 or so on an outline for a writing for fun thing that I’m trying to get going with my friend, Avis…about 300-400 words on my new “Kingdom Building Sim Mark 2.0″…so, all in all, a pretty good writing day. I’ll probably knock out another thousand words on the pro job after dinner and our nightly exercise walk around the neighborhood. Hmmm…I need to put in a bit of time writing my A&E zine, but I have tomorrow off, so I might just do it then.
Grace and I have been discussing our finances lately. Part of this is due to the past 9 months being a very financially tight time and part of it is cos we’re looking ahead to next spring when our car will be paid off, thus freeing up almost $430.00 a month towards other things…not the least of which is paying off the fucking credit cards. We both agree that, while $$ are tight, we are in good shape. Thanks to the insane housing market here in California (and in most of the rest of the U.S.A.), our house is increasing in value at a rather amazing pace. Even if the housing bubble bursts, we know that it will bounce back here in California faster than just about anywhere else. We have no plans to sell in less than 3 years, but when we do, we’ll be making a pretty nice profit on the old homestead.
In other news, I’m a bit less sad about missing Origins this year. The more I hear about it, the more I’m thinking that GAMA is clusterfucking it more every year. Still, if I can afford it, I’ll go next year. If I can’t afford it, maybe I’ll attend a couple of the small cons that go on out here in the spring and fall.
Getting back to the kingdom building sim I’m doing, it’s going to be almost entirely a play by email game, since one of our regular players (Sharon)is moving to the Bay Area in early September. This being the case, I may open the game up to a couple more players. If any of you are interested in playing, let me know and I’ll send you the short but sweet rules when I get them done.
And now it is time to eat dinner. More blogfest later.
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