Saturday

Saturday saw me playing Nephilim with the Second Ottoman Empire, for the most part. Josh really wants to end this campaign (which we started in January 2001) before June, when he departs for his annual summer-long archaeological dig, this time in Mongolia. As such, he kept pushing to keep the session going, past seveal breakpoints, and so we played for something over seven hours. Towards the end I had lost interest and started working on Macnut, even though my character was under long-range magical bombardment from a mad Nazi. (He has a lot of competent friends, so it was OK.)

Then many of us went to eat at a Lebanese place in Arlington, where I ate a yummy filafel sammich as others talked about children who throw things. Josh gave us a mini-lecture about the hypotheses he expects to find evidence for, and how this ties in with the growth and spread of the agricultural and pastoral memes across ancient Eurasia. He was, at one point, a little suspicious at our all being interested in it, but it actually was pretty neat, at least for me. More waiting-for-the-food-to-come periods in restaurants should be accompanied by scholarly elucidation.

For dessert, had coffee with the cthulhia at the diesel. Was nice, coz it had been a while since we had just sat and gabbed over hot beverages. She gave me some new insights into some of my current dilemmas. But, as with anything, we'll see.

When I got home I realized that I didn't remember not locking the door on my way out that morning, which meant that I probably did, despite the fact that Charles, going for a jog, asked me not to. Charles confirmed this for me as I entered. Foo. Sorry, Charles. He is still kind of miffed at me.

Finally, got a friendly email from Aaron Hillegass, author of the Cocoa book I'm working through, who had come upon my jmac.org journal. Quite a surprise, since my blog there has only a handful of regular readers! But if they all clicked the link, it would have registered as a tiny bulge in that webserver's referrer logs, and hence worth investigation. (I do this stuff all the time with my own websites, in case you couldn't tell. :)