A Simple Yet Functional Journal

mood:

cranky

music: All Mine - Portishead

Urban Dead - A Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse: I ran across this from the del.icio.us popular page and thought dreadpiratetait would appreciate it. Although, odds are good she already knows about it.
The Renaissance Games LARP is over.: In case anyone who should have gotten the email missed it, the RenGames LARP scheduled for Sept 10 is canceled. Note, canceled, not rescheduled. I just turned off the life support on this puppy.; I feel bad that things petered out this way, and I would have liked to give the players a good closing game, but I don't see the issues that brought me to this decision going away, and I can keep bleeding myself out over this.
Apherisis: Speaking of bleeding out, I got a lovely letter from the Blood Center of New Jersey congratulating me on my high white blood cell count. Personally, I am suspicious that I may simply not have a low white blood cell count, but they needed an opening line to invite me to donate by apherisis. I'm not eligible to donate again until the 28th (I have whole blood early in August), but it might be fun to give it a shot again (last time I tried, I was in a low-iron count phase and was deferred.); If you don't have a rare whole blood type, and you want to try and do something nice for the community, I'd say go ahead and look into it.
Family vs. Gaming
: I'm thinking of driving to NH this weekend. N is up there, and I didnt get a chance to be up there all summer. I'd have to take Friday off. If I did, it would probably replace the Friday I might have taken for Southen Exposure later in the month. (Anyone with an opinion on the linked driving question, feel free to post here.); I've been waffling on attending SE because it's such a long drive and I have Sunday plans up north. And I hate taking days off. On the other hand, aiskon has said she could use some help from me in the con suite and it's possible that Petey might be expecting me to be there to help with his LARPs there. I have this thing about letting people down, you know.; I do have five vacation days and three personal days left, though, and only four months left in the year. They're there to be used, right?