View From the Bushes

It may take me longer to recover from GenCon than I thought. I left work early yesterday and went home to take a nap. Then I went to bed early and slept in as much as I could this morning, and I'm still dragging. For some reason I've always thought that no matter how much sleep debt I acquired, one good night's sleep and I'd be back to normal. Sad experience has shown that, at least now that I'm old, that's not the way it works at all. In any case, enough rambling about my constant weariness and on with the GenCon Report.

Friday was kind of a wasted day. After staying up late playing Maure I ended up sleeping in till almost noon, as I recall. Then I don't quite remember what I did though I imagine I was in the Exhibit hall, but at three we had tickets for True Dungeon. Which, I have to say, was pretty cool. Apparently our party did pretty well. All but one person survived until the final room. I died because rather than having any sort of tactical combat, the DM just randomly selected who would be attacked, and as a wizard with a 12 AC you can imagine that that didn't bode well. After the True Dungeon we played a little Puerto Rico (the game I mentioned yesterday, though this wasn't at 2 am and we didn't manage to finish). Afterwards, it was time for the ENnies. I sat with the FFG guys who ended up doing really well. My friend Glenn was in charge of much of the ceremony so that was cool too. There was an ENWorld gathering after the event at the Ram, but I decided I was too tired and decided to just head home. So you can see why I say the day was kind of a waste.

This schedule of covering one day at a time is working pretty well so far; as such I think I'll continue at this pace. In other news, it appears that after swearing up and down that he would not make Star Wars episodes 7, 8 and 9 it looks as if Lucas might change his mind. When I first heard that Lucas wasn't going to do 7, 8 and 9 I was depressed; now that I hear that he might do them after all, I think I'm even more depressed. See, it's not a question of whether they'll ever be done, you know that at some point the heirs of Lucas will eventually (as in five minutes after the body is in the ground) sell off the movie options to make additional Star Wars movies, and at this point I would prefer that someone else made the movies. Someone who grew up with the movies and really understands the magic. I think the current crop of comic book movies, especially the X-men movies, are good examples of what I'm talking about.

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Ross