Life in motion

Its been a busy week, and part of that is because I've deliberately kept myself busy and part of that is because friends and family have helped a lot by giving me opportunities to keep busy. I've also been able to deal with things by helping people whenever I can in little ways; now granted this is something I tend to try and do ANYWAY, but the fact of the matter is that this habit has served me well now, because it helps minimize the lows. And there have been some lows.

But the truth of the matter is, as much as I worked to save things, the fact of the matter is the Jennifer is ready to move on. And that fact has helped me come to the point that I'm also ready to move on. As such, we're accelerating the filing date from the 30th to tomorrow (or at least that's the theory.) The fact of the matter is, Jennifer was also less than pleased that we were putting such an emotionally charged day right before her 35th Birthday. And she had a good point, so we're moving it. We still get along very well, though little subtle things have changed. There are definitely a lot of things I will miss about our relationship (and a few I won't but I'm not going to go into details.) We're parting with honor, love and friendship and ultimately that's the best that you can do in this kind of a situation.

We went to Janie and Patrick's play, "All in the Timing" which was surprisingly clever. It was a series of shorts by a guy called David Ives. I particularly liked the bit where the monkey's were writing the screen play for Hamlet. It reminded me a lot of Mining the Dreamplane and showed me that I'm not anywhere as original as I thought. Although...the actual details were substantially different. I'd highly recommend you go see it...but...it isn't there anymore...it was a very short run. Mom and Skip have been trying to get me to do a rendition of Rossom's Universal Robots...and I think this convinced me to do so. We'll see. A play is going to be rather expensive to do right, but first I need to find a script. Did you know that despite the fact that it was written in 1921, there do not seem to be any public domain translations? I'm considering a wide range of options including writing my own 'inspired by' version with a hefty help from babelfish. You can get the Czech version from Project Guttenberg.

Saturday I ran my Shadowrun game, which is moving along quite well. Sunday I worked out and got my first Massage...it helped a lot with the stress. What fascinated me was how much certain meditation mantras have with actual hypnotic induction. There is a lot more similarity between the two than I hithertonow might have thought.

Monday I hung out at Eisen's and played board games with folks. I was Dracula in "Fury of Dracula" which was quite fun but it kind of dragged towards the end. It is not a game you play in 2 hours or so, especially with people who haven't played it before.

Tuesday night was pretty calm. I got some writing done and Jennifer and I watched TV. We've finished season three of the Wire and it is quite good.

Wednesday night I ran a one shot D&D game at CCP. We had seven players. I'll put a log of it and the previous game that Russel ran on my Character blog some time next week. I am sometimes convinced I'm insane for maintaining so many blogs but when I look at the archive I change my mind. Particularly with the rpg blog. I've been playing RPG's for more than 30 years but there is no real log of some of the best recreational experiences of my life. The rpg blog changes that.

Thursday night I hung out and had a beer with my friend Ed Glamkowski. We talked of shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings. He's doing well.

Tonight Jennifer and I are going to see Kickass.