View From the Bushes

I'm not sure if it's just me, but weekends are never as rejuvenating as I expect. Obviously, part of the problem is that in an effort to suck all the enjoyment and recreation I can out of a weekend, I generally stay up much later than I should, but part of it is that they're just too short. What would be really nice is if they would let me work four 10's rather than five 8's. I'm often at work for 10 hours in any event, so with the exception of getting an extra day off each week, there wouldn't be a lot of difference.

I listened to a fair amount of NPR over the weekend. This American Life was a re-run, but that was okay because they did one of my most favorite segments. The have a reading of a short story about the guy who ends up in a rebound relationship with Lois Lane after she dumps Superman. Great stuff, and available on their website if you want to hear it for yourself.

I've reached stage two in my Eberron fascination. That's the stage where I realize that however much I like the setting that there are some things which just have to be changed. The first thing that occured to me is that I didn't like the fact that all the NPC's are fairly low level. So I decided the best thing to do was to come up with a formula which gave me the number of people of a certain level per unit of population, so for example, one out of every 23 people is 2nd level. The formula I came up with was 1.5 to the levels power times level+8 which worked until about tenth level, and then it got a little more complicated, but that actual formula isn't important -- what's important is the question, could I be a bigger geek?

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