So went up to Twin Cities yesterday, got a backpack from REI, gonna train up by dumping a sleeping bag and all my RPG books in it to sim weight of 3 months were of stuff needed to survive near a hostile country (France :D ). Also got to stop by a Borders bookstore, they are quite impressive, then again with our tiny B & N and Waldenbooks it's not hard to be bigger then them, granting this store dwarfed even the bigges B & N I've been too (think it's the one at the Apache(?) Mall in Rochestor). Also got to stop by Uncle Hugo's and found a number of the Man-Kzin Wars that I don't have yet, no elusive VIII which Dad's been hunting for awhile. I've done 1-3, 5 so I picked up 4, 6, and 7. Be awhile before I read them, prolly post-Europe, maybe I will take two of them along. Finished Brightness Reef and started onto Infinity's Shore. The first book really consisted of a whole lot of not much happening, kind of dissapointing. Right at the end though you could figure out a lot of stuff. Reading through the cast of characters for Infi's Shore I'm realizing a lot of my favorite character's from Startide Rising didn't make it. It's also been quite a bit since Startide Rising as far as I can tell, maybe as much as 5 years although not sure on that since the time measurements are really strange (duras, put a various pro-somethings on that words and you make bigger and smaller time segments).
My big sort of story tho is that at Uncle Hugo's I found the Blue Planet four pack. It's a nice deal and I had a couple Blue Planet books (the original out of date core book and a v2 expansion on uplifted Ceteceans) so I got it. It sort of expands the world but mostly just fleshes out the details. However I really do love the idea of a water planet. I think I really got tied into that with Startide Rising but there is more then one science fiction story/show which has had water planets and I usually loved them all. Something about deep oceans which hide so much just makes them really cool. Also I love sentinent dolphins and orcas. It's just really cool, I mean name another game where you can viably play a orca? The only catch right now is I don't have the v2 core books and the original one doesn't work at all with the expansions so eventually I will have to break down and get them (if I can find them which may take even longer since Amazon doesn't carry them and frankly I am not sure if Fantasy Flight Games is doing so well or if Biohazard Games even exists anymore). I highly doubt I'll ever get anyone to play it anyways, just another story which I've gotten engrossed in. Too bad I couldn't have found something cheap to get engrossed in, like watching clouds or something. Or working 40 hours weeks at Shopko (heh, if I could get scheduled that much). Oh well I suppose I could have worse things to waste my free time with. Jon, one of my co-workers, is going to attempt to run a game of Demon: The Fallen. I am onboard although I am not real big on the game, first it's Demon my least favorite part of world of darkness (for obvious reasons) and second it's world of darkness, not my kind of thing to have a game in a dark, paranoid and ultimately doomed world. Kind of strange game already, it's being run by a (fairly devout as far as I know) Catholic, with me as one of the major characters. Maybe Eric is a raging atheist to balance this out. I am going to take a shot at this tho, it probably won't go for more then a few sessions. I just hope I am not somehow betraying my faith and beliefs just to get a little roleplaying in, not a very good sign of belief. Anyhow...
Going down to visit Allison in a couple weeks. Pretty excited, aside from visiting Jessie I really haven't seen much of anyone so it'll be nice to get out and hang with another of my friends. I'd love to swing down after that to visit Jenny but I highly doubt I can pull that off cause I've only heard from her once this summer and I am wary about calling. Not sure if I should or not, I am horrible with calling people anyhow and don't want to intrude on her life. Yea, right, well, at least I get to hang out with Allison before I depart. I need to get in touch with Lars too and stop by Stevens Point, file for an absentee ballot, (and maybe even catch Katy if she is home for once :P ). So many things to do, so little time. Summer is a strange concept of boredom and lack of time. Then again school is like that too.
Ok, time to take a break and relax to some music and take a cat-nap so I can last the night at work. Switching the schedule around is crazy, at least I can use Signs to keep me up.
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