Mathew_Freeman
Adventurer
I had a great weekend. I got to sleep at 4.30am on Satuday night/Sunday morning. Yay.
I just accidentlied all over the new HIVE! lol
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Relique du Madde
Adventurer
Awesome. Whatcha do?
Blackrat
He Who Lurks Beyond The Veil
Relique du Madde
Adventurer
Oh Froggy, Since Salton City is one of the Games that Shayuri decided to keep playing in, feel free to jump back in. Course, I'll have to get Pole away from Mayoral body guard duty. 
I had a rough-ish but fun weekend.
I went to my Intro to Negotiation class Friday night...6-10pm.
Then went to the second session 9AM-5PM Saturday...then went to a 40th birthday party for a buddy of mine. I didn't get home until pretty late.
Got up for 10AM Mass on Sunday, followed by my third class session, from 1-5PM.
My family, however, had planned a big party at the house- weeks before I signed up for class- and it was in full swing when I showed up. The good news was that my Mom's cousin Edward is a great cook- he was doing 3 fried turkeys- and another friend who is a caterer showed up with boudin from Louisiana and an assortment of home-made desserts. We also had boiled crab, prawns, potatoes, corn on the cob, fresh veggies, my (defrosted) creole red beans, and so forth.
The bad news: the turkey-fry pot had a pinhole leak in it, so they had to go buy a new pot, delaying Edward by one whole turkey, which he asked me to cook...about the time the party was wearing down. Not only did I cook it, though, I also did my usual and deboned it and used its bones (and those of the other 2 turkeys) to make a turkey stock. Doing that requires time, so I didn't get to sleep until 7:30 AM this morning (I was taking a day off anyway, thank goodness). It worked out to being a 22 hour day.
Then, upon waking in the afternoon, I took some of the leftovers, the uncooked prawns, the turkey stock and a shrimp stock (made from the shells & heads of the aforementioned prawns) and made a pot of gumbo.
Now, I've been cooking since I was 7 or 8...and I've been making gumbo since about age 21.
This is the best damn gumbo I have ever made.
I went to my Intro to Negotiation class Friday night...6-10pm.
Then went to the second session 9AM-5PM Saturday...then went to a 40th birthday party for a buddy of mine. I didn't get home until pretty late.
Got up for 10AM Mass on Sunday, followed by my third class session, from 1-5PM.
My family, however, had planned a big party at the house- weeks before I signed up for class- and it was in full swing when I showed up. The good news was that my Mom's cousin Edward is a great cook- he was doing 3 fried turkeys- and another friend who is a caterer showed up with boudin from Louisiana and an assortment of home-made desserts. We also had boiled crab, prawns, potatoes, corn on the cob, fresh veggies, my (defrosted) creole red beans, and so forth.
The bad news: the turkey-fry pot had a pinhole leak in it, so they had to go buy a new pot, delaying Edward by one whole turkey, which he asked me to cook...about the time the party was wearing down. Not only did I cook it, though, I also did my usual and deboned it and used its bones (and those of the other 2 turkeys) to make a turkey stock. Doing that requires time, so I didn't get to sleep until 7:30 AM this morning (I was taking a day off anyway, thank goodness). It worked out to being a 22 hour day.
Then, upon waking in the afternoon, I took some of the leftovers, the uncooked prawns, the turkey stock and a shrimp stock (made from the shells & heads of the aforementioned prawns) and made a pot of gumbo.
Now, I've been cooking since I was 7 or 8...and I've been making gumbo since about age 21.
This is the best damn gumbo I have ever made.
Mathew_Freeman
Adventurer
Went to a friends 40th birthday party. Started in a pub by the Thames in London at 1pm, ate a huge chickenburger, stayed till about 7pm with a couple of beers. Then went on to a club that had opened early for us so we could be the DJ, danced until about 11pm before heading over to his house and talking and listening to music until 4.30am when I crashed out upstairs on an inflatable bed.
Woke up about 11am Sunday morning, had some breakfast and played a little Soul Calibur 3 for a couple of hours with more talking until leaving about 4pm. Got back home around 5.30pm.
Exhausting, but awesome.
Last night, went bowling with two friends and scored over 100 each time, very pleased.
Aeson
I am the mysterious professor.
I ordered some books from Amazon yesterday. Today I check to see when they might be shipped. Estimated shipping dates? Nov 4 - Jan 1. 
One book had a 3 month wait for shipping. Another was out of stock. I changed the shipping to ship when available so I can at least get some of them sooner rather than later. I'm concidering putting together a Pathfinder campaign and want to get as many source books to help out as I can.
One thing I'm thinking of doing is limiting what the PCs know about the world at large. Without access to fast forms of communication and limited educations some people just wouldn't know that much. A new world would be perfect for that. They know what's around them like their village or town. If the player chooses to play a more knowledgable character then I won't limit them. I just want the Joe-shmo farm boy to be as ignorant as he should be.
Is this too RBDM?
One book had a 3 month wait for shipping. Another was out of stock. I changed the shipping to ship when available so I can at least get some of them sooner rather than later. I'm concidering putting together a Pathfinder campaign and want to get as many source books to help out as I can.
One thing I'm thinking of doing is limiting what the PCs know about the world at large. Without access to fast forms of communication and limited educations some people just wouldn't know that much. A new world would be perfect for that. They know what's around them like their village or town. If the player chooses to play a more knowledgable character then I won't limit them. I just want the Joe-shmo farm boy to be as ignorant as he should be.
Is this too RBDM?
Relique du Madde
Adventurer
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kyi0WNg40]YouTube - Dramatic Look[/ame]
I hate it when that happens. I hate it even more when some thing ships with a 2 - 6 buisness day delivery and you get it 10 - 14 buisness days later.I ordered some books from Amazon yesterday. Today I check to see when they might be shipped. Estimated shipping dates? Nov 4 - Jan 1.
One book had a 3 month wait for shipping. Another was out of stock.
A realistic fantasy world?!!?!?!?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kyi0WNg40]YouTube - Dramatic Look[/ame]
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Mathew_Freeman
Adventurer
Relique, I'm also certain that Dannyalcatraz and me aren't even in the same country... but if I'm wrong I'm going to be very amused.
For the record, I was in London.
For the record, I was in London.
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