A. H. Blackman

So I have a handful.

1: I should always take my medicine.

2: I am going to clean my house and keep it clean.

3: I am going to create something new and interesting to me.
4: I am going to spend more time with my wife and kids.

Today, I realised, between the game I want to run, and the games I am supposed to be playing in, I am in 5 games, add on my darling wifes LARP, and that makes 6 between us, then add in WoW and that makes seven. This is an insane amount of gaming, on a very limited schedule.

Now, don't think that is all I am doing, I am a full-time parent as well who volunteer's in his son's class at least once a week, and has to maintain a home for his family (which I often fail at due to a true lack of house keeping skills or anything). I also work 3 nights a week, and at least one weekend day. So, how does one handle this? The answer, I am afraid is I get to cull my gaming habit a bit. I need to figure out when the games are being run, that I am "playing" in, and figure out which ones I can attend, just do to scheduling. I also don't want to punish people due to my own scheduling habits. I really want to run a game, almost more then I want to play in one right now, so for me I think that is my first priority. Now, I am not going to try and define any one else priorties but that is mine.

Now, that doesn't mean I don't want to play in all these game, just that I don't see a way I can do so. So, I get to do the hard thing and put together my priority list, figure out what is most important to me in my limited free time and pick and choose.

Oh, and hey I just remembered I have this LJ, so hopefully I can drag myself back here from time to time to post on it.

Normally I am not a huge fan of sharing videos but this one was made of awesome win candy.

In the past 24 hours, I recieved a package larger then Mr. Wolf. Mr. Wolf got really sick, spent all day cuddling the wolf cub. Kids had Parent Teacher Cofrences while I cuddled the Wolf Cub. Signed up for Twitter. My Angel Princess got sick as Mr. Wolf finally started falling asleep. Noticed that my stuffed Cthulhu was sitting on my wifes Caboodle, which struck me as amusing. I did laundry once both were in bed. Watched Some Soprano's. Climbed into bed, slept for 3 hours roughly as the little ones kept waking up, and needing cuddles. Finally at 2, got out of bed and was caring daddy for the sick till 4:30. Went back to sleep, up at 6:45, cuddled with wife. Got T ready for school. Watched some Heroes. Mr. Wolf's fever has broken, and he is happily playing little girl is in the bath.

Now, I am ready for what ever comes next.

So, I have started down the long tunnel of random thought that is Twitter. Oddly, I find it alot easier to post there then here where I am allowed to go on and on. Sometimes it's just easier for me to post a sentence or two instead of posting on LJ.

Adam

Stolen from my darling Cearalaith

Put your music player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first song is the title

I should state that I don't get it.

"Red Red Wine"

Turn the spotlights on the people
You tell me that you've got everything you want
It's been a hard days night
I put self loathing at the end of a string

Every night I grab some money and I go down to the bar
I get high when I see you go by
If you ever plan to motor west
Roland was a warrior from the land of the midnight Sun

The light in the window is a crack in the sky
If you said goodbye to me tonight
Shall we agree that just this once
Fell in the door and you fell on the floor

At first I was afraid
Before there ever was a you and me
Here in my car
You know you made me cry

Tut tut!
He's got your number now
When I was 17
Two feets they come a creepin

So, I sit here at work bored while the young man I work with (my brother) showers and I breath before going and cleaning the dishes from breakfast, I find myself taking time to read over the web and amuse my self with a quick goofy online quiz.

As to how I am doing, since I don't post very often. I am doing alright, tending to my children working 4 days a week in the evenings which helps pay the bills. Got a new used awesome computer thanks to a friend.

Still Roleplaying (currently playing in two TableTop games, a LARP, and trying to start running a new game myself). Might need to work on getting out more. Still enjoying life. Taking the kids out to run errands tomorrow and to the park on Monday afternoon. Life is and continues to be.

So, I am alive and me, my wife, and children are doing well.

Adam out.

So, I am updating with chapter 6. I am working currently on Chapter 7. I am currently at 13,595 words

Again, remember a rough draft, this is not edited or cleaned up. I will edit, rewrite and clean up next month.

( Chapter 6: In which We Meet the Damnable Yankee )

So, here we are the chapter I wrote like third, and here you go. By the way, gramaticly is probably not a word, but what the hell I think it is amusing. So, today I have to go write chapter 6 (which is Chapter 6 I promise). Of course, I don't quite know what is going to happen next. Currently if I get a random idea and it works, it is getting slipped into the story (hence the Liver Licking Boot Lovers).

Also, this is as rough can be, rougher in fact then a crew of Sky Pirates, in there red and gold air ship of Awesomeness!

So here it is ( Chapter 5: The Sky Pirate Captain And his employer )

Odd, and here I just posted one. So, a bit of back story. I wrote a chapter, realised it happened later, thought it was chapter 4, and it turned out to be chapter 5. First I had to well, have a geneticly modified Land-Shark attack our heroes. Again, the warning, this has not been edited at all. This is just how it came out of my head so it is a mess and ugly gramaticly but I am still doing this.

So, here is ( Chapter 4: The Trip to Daniel's Soon to be Former Residence )

Alright, so as promised, though I should warn you these are as rough as they come. Erin has not edited these, so they are ripe full of spelling errors, incomplete sentences and every other kind of grammar problem you can imagine but I am going to still post it:

( Chapter 3: In which Daniel learns more about his brother )

So I am posting chapter 3, 4 and 5 (possibly 6 if I get it written) tomorrow. I am just not up for formatting it. These have not been edited, so they are as rough as can be. As of today, I am at 8266 words. So, if things go well I am going to try and break 10,000 words tomorrow.

So yah, cool and awesome.

Adam out.

Chapter 3 should be up tomorrow presuming I get it written, since I spent most of the day writing chapter 4 in a confused state of believing that it was chapter 3. Silly me, I should have known better.

But, the good news is I am still moving forward with 5369 words.

On other news, I am all set to vote tomorrow with a written down list of who and what I am voting for.

Oh, and on a side note Happy Birthday Cinnicat.

And please everyone I know in Ca. who reads this, vote no on 8. I know every one has gone on this but I also want to throw in my stand against this one. We should not have the rights of individuals written out of the constitution of California.

While I am at it, I like 1a. Trains are awesome. Fast trains are awesomer. We could have High Speed trains all over California and that would be most awesome of all.

Day 2: 1680 words (total 3584). I am still moving forward, hopefully I can keep this up for the oncoming weeks.

Oh, and thank you to my darling cearalaith for doing a five-minute edit for legibility and contributing to the insanity (speaking of which, I will happily take suggestions for insanity to add to this story if people have any.)

So here it is:

( Chapter 2: In which a Package changes Daniel’s Life, and Pirates attack )

Well so I am doing what my wife has told me to do, I am continuing to post my story. So here is the first chapter of The Case of the Shattering Curve.

( Chapter 1: In Which we are introduced to two brothers who both call the city of London their Home )

So, I am a little nervous about posting this for who ever is board enough to read it. The only comforting thought is very few people actually read my journal.

Well, so I am an hour into NaNoWriMo, and I am posting my novel as I write it, under encouragement of my darling wife. So here it is the prologue to The Case of the Shattering Curve, a gaslamp fantasy.

( Prologue: The Case of the Shattering Curve )

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now (even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a completely made up, fictional memory of you and me. It can be anything you want - good or bad - but it has to be fake. When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with!

Ok, I totally just came up with my story for NaNoWriMo. Thanks Satyr.

So there is this Sci-Fi/horror/comic convention called From the Land Beyond, the week after my brithday (the weekend of the 26 and the 27th). It's at the Scottish Rite Center in Sacramento, I am thinking about blowing a weekend there if I can get some sitting. Is any one else going to this thing?

The website for it can be found at: http://www.sacanime.com/fromthelandbeyond/

On the way, you absolutely should stop at Dude and Catastrophe. I picked up the best DLC for Rock Band of all time. I picked up the PAX pack, which features Skull Crusher Mountain by Jonathon Coulton, Living on the Corner of Dude and Catatrophe by MC Frontalot, and another song by the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, but dude singing and fake guitar playing to Skull Crusher Mountain is so FUCKING COOL!!!!