Prop-shopping

[hrj]

So there I was Saturday, shortly after noon, in the aisle at Michaels Crafts shopping for various useful objects for the Games Tourney when the cell phone rings. It's klwilliams with an invitation to go off to a bookstore in SF to hear Katharine Kerr do a reading and then do dinner afterwards with the author and her husband. And just as I'm saying something to the effect of I've got this stuff to do for the Games Tourney, I'm thinking, "Idiot -- weren't you just complaining last week to this very same klwilliams that everyone else seems to do all these spontaneous social things and somehow you never do? And," I continue to myself, "you know why people never call you up and say, 'Hey, let's go do such-and-such'? BECAUSE YOU SAY NO." At which point I sputtered a little and said, "Of course I'd love to!" It was an interesting reading -- although I confess not quite fascinating enough to make me start in on yet another 14-volume fantasy series when the "to read" shelves are already overflowing. But the after-dinner conversation rambled into historic linguistics and Gaulish personal names, so it was quite enjoyable.

Sunday I did various game-prop related projects with saws, drills, sandpaper, paint, glue, and varnish, and then got the event booklet/handout roughed out and partially filled in. And grumbled at the freecycle person who was supposed to come pick something up and never did and hasn't e-mailed about it either. (I'd start listing my freecycle items here in the blog, but not all that many of my readers are geographically convenient.) I've been posting "Game of the Day" teasers in the West Kingdom e-mail list to get people thinking about the event. I've gotten a couple of postive responses and nobody grousing at me about "spam", so I'm hoping that the idea of tucking event reminders into the corners of constantly changing useful content is working the way it's supposed to.

Comments

[helblonde.livejournal.com]

I have the same trouble with sponteneity.

I like the posts with content! If you're willing, I'd love to print the instructions in the Tempus Nebulorum, since that complements the P&P's War and Games theme.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

The event handout will include instructions and descriptions for all the games (that we play at the event) including redrawings of the relevant parts of the painting. So it'll be a bit much for a newsletter article without some editing. I've already promised a pdf of the whole thing to the Mists website, but there's no reason it can't get more exposure.

[helblonde.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that posted, I wasn't sure it had.

I'll be there on Saturday! With your permission and some editing, I may be able to spread the games over the next two issues: Coronet and Investiture.

After all, if I'm going to blow my printing budget, it might as well be helping people have fun.

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

Saying 'yes' is liberating!

[helblonde.livejournal.com]

Not planning something for every weeknight and weekend is liberating.

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

ah, but that is a different problem!