life update

[seekingferret]

Last Monday I went to my weekly Torah class- we discussed the place in Shulchan Aruch were it says where to shecht a giraffe. Apparently the notion that we don't know where to shecht a giraffe is a bubbemeise.


Tuesday was Puzzled Pint, with ghost_lingering and thirdblindmouse. We had fun puzzling and solved the puzzles really quickly for us, but the venue had a loud polka band playing through the whole night, which was distracting and annoying.

Friday was a local Shabbaton, with board gaming after dinner. I played Small Worlds for the first time. It was fun in spite of the game, not really because of the game, because we had two veteran players and three newbies, and the veterans were much better and it was obvious one of them would win by the midway point, but Small Worlds is looong and there's a lot of downtime between turns, so the whole thing was annoying. But on the other hand, company was great and we had a lot of fun punning and telling jokes while not playing. Shabbos lunch was also a really nice time with great company.

Sunday I went over to ghost_lingering's apartment for a vidding day with thirdblindmouse and anoel. I hosted the first one last spring right before the VVC deadline and at VVC we decided to make it officially bimonthly. Vidding is a pretty solitary activity, so most of the time was just us sitting in silence for hours together, but it was companionly and it was nice to be able to show drafts to people and get instant feedback. I have only a few more detail edits left on my Festivid! On the other hand, my Chewbacca vid got a total almost from scratch overhaul with even a new version of the song.

Tomorrow night is my biweekly rpg night, still on D20 Modern in the Damnation Decade setting, although we are probably close to ending the campaign. One way or another. Either the Antichrist kills us or we kill him, and I'm more inclined to expect the first to happen.

I'll be driving down to the DC area next Monday night for Jewmas, which will have a non-Jew or two this year. Otherwise my holiday plans are pretty much done already which is nice and relaxing. Next important event will be Hunt in mid-January.

Comments

[ambyr]

My favorite part of Small World is the slogan on the box; it's orthographically interesting to me that "a world of slaughter" and "a world of laughter" are one letter apart but pronounced completely differently. (Which is to say, I don't think much of the game play.)

Welcome to DC! If you've got spare time and want to try to get together, let me know; my plans for the 25th are basically "read Yuletide in my PJs," but I am willing to adjust this.

[seekingferret]

I may have spare time, we never really have much of a plan for Jewmas. So I'll let you know.

[seekingferret]

Friend who is hosting is in Fairfax. I will have my car.

[ambyr]

Cool. (If it was not somehow already clear, I live near the center of the city.)