After picking and pecking away in the word mines all day, I just don’t feel like writing a freewrite. Fortunately, I don’t feel the need to rant either (though, see some thoughts below for a rant lite). Instead I want to focus on the good in life. The first thing worth sharing is a dip in the pool. I slid into the bathroom temperature waters and was quite pleased about it. I get how cold water can be refreshing, and especially on a super hot day like (insert any day in July). Still, being even partially submerged instantly feels good. I was able to lay in the sun and listen to a solid Chuck Wendig read and think all about how chill life can be.
This is in sharp contrast to, say about 3AM, when I woke up for no particular reason and moments into the waking discovered that I was mentally re-writing the entire ruleset for Shadowrun in order to represent a slimmed down, rules lite approach to the game which creates a great deal more room for better world content and story and character advancement! I am stoked to be going to GenCon (where I will not be pitching these ideas… A forum exists for that already). I haven’t been in better than a decade–so long that I don’t even remember what it is going to be like. It is going to be travel no matter what else it ends up entailing, and that is good enough for me. I love to explore, and I suspect it will be cooler (and more humid to be sure) than the desert.
My partner has not uncovered the secret Indianapolis–the one filled with really cool stuff we will both enjoy. I believe that place exists. We just have to find it. In the meanwhile, I have a weekend here in town, including a 5 hr father/son football event tomorrow that I have absolutely no information about short of an address. Weird, right? Extra weird to have the mid-kid be a senior. I remember him as an infant. That doesn’t feel like very long ago…
Some Thoughts:
- I’m allergic to negativity. It’s worse when it comes from people who have a gravity about them, because that negativity pulls everyone in and just makes me sicker.