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Long weekend incl. gaming at Antonio Hall
Oct. 25th, 2017 10:11 pmThis weekend past was Labour Weekend in NZ; so a public holiday was had on Monday. It was an unusually ordered weekend in more ways than one.
I can not actually recall much of what I did on Saturday. I know I spent some time at the Hall in the afternoon. I suspect the rest of the time was spent on housework and on the phone to Wellington. I've been on the phone (or FaceChat) to Wellington a lot recently.
Sunday I actually managed a whole day at home when the urban search and rescue dog team cancelled their booked training at the Hall. Most of the day I spent focused on cleaning obsolete material out of my gaming folder, attending to various GM admin tasks related to my Sunday game and planning the encounter and aftermath for the next session (the PCs were ambushing an enemy camp). It was good just to be able to sit down and concentrate on gaming stuff for an extended period of time, closing a lot of small loops in my to-do list; but it was also about as mentally taxing as the equivalent time (ie a full day) at work.
Sunday evening I attended a Labour Weekend drinkies for a few hours as a) I really needed to get out of the house for a bit and b) the game had actually been moved (one day only) to Monday afternoon; one player down but better for everyone else, to be run at the Hall while I was on site for photographers. (#atmosphere) Monday morning I spent on house chores and final gaming prep.
Of course it turned out that one of the groups booked in weren't actually as familiar with the Hall as I had taken from their email so we lost 45 minutes to an abridged version of the orientation tour. But the party did manage to make it through the encounter, defeat the giant "sheepaphant", capture the mage and start getting out of Dodge in just the amount of time we had remaining. I don't know if playing in the Hall dining room (in the dark, for a night battle) actually added to the experience for anyone; once I was focused on the table I stopped being aware of the surrounds but then I'm quite used to being in them.
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Regardless I've been feeling rejuvenated somewhat recently. Bookended by wake-ups / good nights from my lady in Wellington I'm sleeping a reasonable period, waking up sharply in the morning and if I can get out of bed (or have something to do on the laptop) being quite productive. Followed up by a full day of activity - Sunday gaming prep; Monday chores & gaming; Tuesday work; Wednesday work followed by chores.
It's not all positive though:
- My sleep quantity may have improved but the quality continues to be questionable. Monday night was particularly bad. Not that I wasn't sleeping, but that it came with a very vivid, epic length end of the world, hopes and expectations repeatedly crushed type dream.
- despite the extra hours I am not finding much downtime for just me; there always seems to be someone or something demanding attention just when I try to take a break (cat/sudden deadlines/hall requests/messages of distress) and I am starting to feel worn quite thin.
I can not actually recall much of what I did on Saturday. I know I spent some time at the Hall in the afternoon. I suspect the rest of the time was spent on housework and on the phone to Wellington. I've been on the phone (or FaceChat) to Wellington a lot recently.
Sunday I actually managed a whole day at home when the urban search and rescue dog team cancelled their booked training at the Hall. Most of the day I spent focused on cleaning obsolete material out of my gaming folder, attending to various GM admin tasks related to my Sunday game and planning the encounter and aftermath for the next session (the PCs were ambushing an enemy camp). It was good just to be able to sit down and concentrate on gaming stuff for an extended period of time, closing a lot of small loops in my to-do list; but it was also about as mentally taxing as the equivalent time (ie a full day) at work.
Sunday evening I attended a Labour Weekend drinkies for a few hours as a) I really needed to get out of the house for a bit and b) the game had actually been moved (one day only) to Monday afternoon; one player down but better for everyone else, to be run at the Hall while I was on site for photographers. (#atmosphere) Monday morning I spent on house chores and final gaming prep.
Of course it turned out that one of the groups booked in weren't actually as familiar with the Hall as I had taken from their email so we lost 45 minutes to an abridged version of the orientation tour. But the party did manage to make it through the encounter, defeat the giant "sheepaphant", capture the mage and start getting out of Dodge in just the amount of time we had remaining. I don't know if playing in the Hall dining room (in the dark, for a night battle) actually added to the experience for anyone; once I was focused on the table I stopped being aware of the surrounds but then I'm quite used to being in them.
~~~
Regardless I've been feeling rejuvenated somewhat recently. Bookended by wake-ups / good nights from my lady in Wellington I'm sleeping a reasonable period, waking up sharply in the morning and if I can get out of bed (or have something to do on the laptop) being quite productive. Followed up by a full day of activity - Sunday gaming prep; Monday chores & gaming; Tuesday work; Wednesday work followed by chores.
It's not all positive though:
- My sleep quantity may have improved but the quality continues to be questionable. Monday night was particularly bad. Not that I wasn't sleeping, but that it came with a very vivid, epic length end of the world, hopes and expectations repeatedly crushed type dream.
- despite the extra hours I am not finding much downtime for just me; there always seems to be someone or something demanding attention just when I try to take a break (cat/sudden deadlines/hall requests/messages of distress) and I am starting to feel worn quite thin.
