Ori's Orations

Watching Television - Surprise - Grilled Cheese

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:40:07 GMT

This is obviously REALLY late and the only reason it's sneaking into the round up is because I'm the one that puts the round up together. The benefits of being me, I guess? :}

Anyway, this is my response to the Sim_Scenes prompt from this past week. I got the idea right away, but was only able to find the time to put it together today. This time, I'm using some Maxis sims.

( Click here for Surprise, Cheese, and TV! )

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Chandler Platz GO HOME!

Sun, 31 May 2009 20:20:02 GMT

Hey look! Sunday picspam is back and it's actually Sunday!

I had hoped to have my update done by the end of May, but it's not quite there yet. It's close, but I've still got about 2/3 of it to write. Being that I'm easily distracted by shiny objects, I ended up doing a little bit of playing this weekend. While I wish I had finished the update, I'm not feeling too guilty about playing. It had been a long time since I'd cracked open the hood and just played.

Luckily, there were two houses that hadn't been played through winter yet, so I had something I could do without getting too much further ahead of myself.

( Chandler Platz will you please GO HOME!? )

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Haunting - Acceptance - Money

Fri, 29 May 2009 21:01:20 GMT

Here's my response to the Sim_Scenes challenge prompt this week - Haunting * Acceptance * Money.

This one involves newly created sims just for this prompt. I thought about doing it with Maxis sims, but decided to stick with originals for now. This time I got hit pretty hard with the 10 picture limit. I got it trimmed down to 10 without losing too much, but there were definitely some little bits I miss.

( Haunting ... Acceptance... Money... )

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Weekend Rundown

Mon, 25 May 2009 21:21:53 GMT

There's not too much to say, but I had a blast this weekend.

I got started a bit later than I would have liked. This is partially because I still have trouble judging time when I don't get up until noon. It's amazing how much of the day you lose when you wake up when most people are having lunch. Still, I got on the road around 6ish. This meant I didn't get down to Binghamton until after 8:30ish. Ah well, no one had started anything until I got there anyway.

Most nights there were enough people to split into two groups, while most of the afternoons were a little smaller so we had one game going on. Mostly we played Marvel Saga which is a low key super hero game using a deck of specialized cards rather than dice. A bunch of us had continuing characters we brought into that, so it was quite a bit of fun.

The other game system I played was the new(ish) Star Wars system that Wizards put out last year, I think. That was also great fun and I'm thinking I'm going to pick up the books. It seems like a system that I could actually get a handle on running.

All in all, it was a weekend of good people, good games, and better food than you usually eat at a convention. I'll be running into quite a few of these folks at Origins at the end of next month, so I'm looking forward to that.

Yay for geekdom. :)

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Geeks and Games

Fri, 22 May 2009 08:09:50 GMT

Just as an FYI for those interested, I'll be out of town this weekend, starting tomorrow. I'm headed down to Binghamton for a weekend with some gaming and con friends. It's being referred to as 'KevinCon', in reference to the guy hosting it. It should be a good time. I'm expecting to get quite a bit of good gaming in.

I think they're also expecting me to run something, which is always nerve wracking for me. I do an okay job with running a roleplaying game, but I always get stage fright. On top of that, I have the tendency of trying to making everyone happy, so I spin a good yarn, but I'm not quite adversarial enough running the bad guys. Ah well. It should still be a good time.

At this point, I'm not sure if I'm coming back late Sunday night or Monday afternoon. I have to work Monday night, so I'd rather sleep in my own bed Sunday night/Monday morning, but if I'm too tired to come back on Sunday or having too good a time... We shall see.

Everyone in the US have a great Memorial Day, everyone else have a good weekend. :)

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This is a Test. Only a Test

Thu, 21 May 2009 08:16:22 GMT

I'm flailing at this whole Dreamwidth thing, and as a result, I wanted to see if the cross posting thing works. From what I understand, there's also a way to import all my LJ posts to DW, but I didn't see that in a quick view of the account settings. What I did find was the thingy that enables cross posting.

Dreamwidth seems to be catching on. I don't know if it'll overtake LJ by any means, or really that it offers all that much that's different from LJ at the moment. Regardless, I'm clinging to the bandwagon and seeing what's what.

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Thanks Marina!

Tue, 19 May 2009 07:27:56 GMT

Yay for bandwagons!

Not quite sure what I'll be using this for, but for now I'll be poking at this lightly to see what's what.

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