Flametoad

Origins was both wonderful and incredibly exhausting. I met a blur of fantastic people, and I’m going to do my best to write up a trip report before too many of the details fade away. I returned on Sunday utterly spent, then used Monday–my planned day to recover from the trip–building the tadpoles’ swingset. Tomorrow [...]

I can tell it’s getting down to the wire with Origins. Over the weekend I had a dream in which I was sitting on the airplane waiting to take off when I realized that I’d forgotten my cell phone. Then I realized I hadn’t brought any luggage or my binder for running games. I’d just [...]

A little more than a month ago, I mentioned that I was going to Origins. Less than a week from now, I’ll be climbing on a plane and traveling for nearly 6 hours to Columbus, Ohio for my very first national con. Am I excited? Heck yeah! I’ve already posted 12 to Midnight’s official Origins [...]

My weekend started an hour early when I received a 4 pm phone call from my friend whose vehicle had broken down. I left work early to rescue his wife and baby from the parking lot while he installed a new battery. Fortunately that didn’t take very long and he joined us at the house [...]

If you stop to think about it, the choices we make for our online avatars are rather fascinating, don’t you think? I was married and had my first kid right around the time MMOs became big, so I never got hooked*. However, I post of probably close to half a dozen forums and lurk on [...]