I just found out that children’s author Lloyd Alexander passed away just under a week ago. The NYT obit at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/arts/19alexander.html does an excellent job of summing up his works and achievements.
Note to self: get the full set of Prydain Chronicles (somehow, only the 5th book escaped from childhood to now).
In other news, if you’d like to come over to my place tonight for boardgaming, let me know! Fairly open invite, but give me a heads up so I can be prepared.
Ankle update: Still tender, but good for everything but sports. Been walking on it without anything but the occasional Tylenol for 3 or 4 days now.
Weather update: sunshine has arrived along with television season finales. Good timing.
Work update: AAAAH! Phones! Hundreds of phones, everywhere! Goodbye students, hello slogging through rollouts. Desperately hoping for something more interesting/rewarding to do.
Gaming update: keeps going. Room for more with summer here. Minor boardgaming and LARP planning happening.
Social update: need more. Anticipate hearing about an upcoming event. Contact me if you have ideas or want in.
Music update: Still love singing. Lots of work to get ready for concert in under three weeks. Glad to be with a group that enjoys, rewards, and displays hard work. Sometimes stressed by it though.
Weekend update: spending much time on the road helping my brother pack up and move back to Ithaca. Must hide opinion that he is dismantling his current life piece by piece and trying to go back to an earlier time. If it works for him, that’s cool, but expectations are low. Glad to help out though. It’s his life and he gets to set the direction.
Other updates: will come later, out and about I go.
Tuesday night while playing squash, I rolled my foot over and twisted my ankle. Ow. In my defense though, it was the last game of a 5-game match, and I was up 10-4, and it was my serve, so I probably would have won. Stayed home yesterday, but did go to rehearsal. Up and about today, but taking it easy, as there is still some pain.
And while there are still a few weeks before people’s schedules completely fill up, I’d like to point people to http://noneabove.org/sf/ .
June 2nd, 8 pm., three great a cappella groups, $10.
Mother’s Day festivities went rather well. The house was appropriately cleaned, and put into very good shape, the food was excellent, and everyone seemed to have a good time. That said, having 9 humans at one time means we went through a lot of dishes, prepware, servingware, utensils, etc. Someday I’ll have the kitchen back.
Oh, and for anyone with an interest in acting, role playing games, improv, larping, those sorts of things, let me point you over to Paul Tevis and Have Games, Will Travel. Episode 3 of his sub-show at http://www.havegameswilltravel.net/index.php?post_id=213395 is a nice reflection on some of the topics, and discussions like this can help to make better gamers and game masters.