What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

I did a bunch of stuff today, but not thrilling stuff. I worked on Portuguese and editing my Mass Effect story. Then I worked on finishing up reading the rules (and writing a summary) for the solo roleplaying. I had Portuguese class then did my first roleplaying scenario. (The character is from a sparsely inhabited world that has had quite a few failed colonies. The colony where she grew up is falling apart, because people are leaving. Then an earthquake hits, and everyone else is killed. She is able to salvage some things from the wreckage. It is not possible to stay, so she needs to try to meet up with some of the colony members who recently left to try and find transportation off the planet. The fun thing is that I have no idea what will happen. She could be attacked by pirates or find a lost city. We'll see what happens next session!)

Today, I also worked on the gardening website and sketched out Joel's birthday card. Now, though, it is time for bed.

On Saturday, I went into Lisbon, as usual, and it was great. I had forgotten that I was also going into Lisbon on Sunday for roleplaying, which was decidedly less great, as I was tired. However, the roleplaying was great. (For those who are interested, we killed a bunch of bad guys. Then, we found a room with bad guys talking, which we were unsure about engaging with. Instead, we continued exploring and found a barred door. We opened the door, and there was a really dangerous monster (an owlbear). We ran back to the room with the two bad guys talking and charged in. The owlbear took out a couple of bad guys for us, before we finally had to fight it. So much fun!) Today, I was finishing upgrading all my websites to a newer version of PHP, when I found that one site wasn't working. Very long story short, the first level of tech support wasn't helpful, but I think I have proof that it is the hosting provider's fault that the site doesn't work. It was a lot of frustration on top of being very tired.

In happier news, we finally have homeowner's insurance. Yay!!! And the stove was delivered today. Yay!!! And Joel got the replacement bolts for his bike, so now the quick-release wheels and some other bits are no longer quick-release (so it is harder to just pop bits off and steal them). This is one step to Joel being able to lock up the bike somewhere for a longer period of time. We still aren't sure if I'll be able to ride on the back any distance. However, we'll see. I also spent some time pulling weeds in the garden today, so now I have two bits that were full of nettles that are no longer full of nettles. I really look forward to getting these things all pulled out and the trees I don't want removed. We also need to prune everything. In happy garden news, ChatGPT just told me that one of the plants I want to put in (chayote) is grown by sticking the whole vegetable into the ground and waiting for it to grow (Wikipedia seems to agree). That sounds much easier than trying to find a place that will sell us a small plant. Probably, I should wait until I have finished tearing all the ivy out, as chayote is a pretty aggressive vine, it seems, and I'll need to have some place for it to grow and be ready to cut it back. Luckily, every part of it is edible, so I can eat everything that I prune. Other good news is that most of our big vitamin delivery has arrived. Yay!

I played a little D&D with Joel, and it just completely wore me out. However, we worked on our story a little this evening, which was great!

I'm pretty sure that the anxiety is about Sunday's roleplaying game. The benefit is that it will be over by Sunday night, so I will (hopefully) stop being so damn stressed. I enjoy running games for Joel, but I don't need to for anyone else. I have plenty of other hobbies, and it looks like I can get enough roleplaying in without having to run games for others.

In other news, writing is going well, and I was able to make a little progress with sewing. Programming didn't go super well, but I think I'll be able to get through the difficult part if I just do a little at a time. Tomorrow, we are going on a little adventure, which should be fun. It won't take a super long time, so I don't think it will totally exhaust me, which would be a problem, because Saturday will be totally exhausting.

I hadn't intended to take on any new responsibilities. However, today in the writers group, a guy who is interested in Dungeons and Dragons was really giving me the "please run a game for me" puppy dog eyes without actually asking (so, in a very nice way, but I could tell he wanted someone to show him how it works). So, I said that I would be willing to run a one-shot. He was so excited! I will do this on Tuesday. It will be short and mainly focused on showing the players how Dungeons and Dragons works. Because it will be on the day of carnival, I'm going to say that the characters are going to a feast, like the Feast of Fools. They will decorate a wagon for the parade (like a float). Then, fairies will crash the parade and cause chaos. The players will have to defeat the fairies/return them to their realm/convince them to go away. I'm hoping that they will be invested in protecting their wagon, since they spent a lot of time on it. Also, they can use things on the wagon to help defeat the fairies. At least, this is my plan for now.

I've been playing a couple of my romance games pretty much constantly. I get sick of some of the other ones, but these just never get old. However, I think it might be good to play through some of the other games I own once in a while (and look at some of the games I own but haven't played), so I made up some lists on Steam with all the games I want to replay in them. Hopefully, this will help me at least enjoy the games I have and perhaps also encourage me to play some of the new ones. It also got me to go through the other game launchers I have and figure out which games I own from places other than Steam. I love StarCraft, for example, so I will be glad to get it into the rotation again.