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Anniversary and Hot Pot Rice

I've had a really bad cold for the last two weeks, upper respiratory that went into the lungs and aggravated my asthma all to heck and back again. So I missed doing the digital transcripts for the 911 dispatch center last week, and also had to skip on my bee venom shots because they don't like me doing them when I need my immune system to fight something off. For that matter, I probably shouldn't like dampening my immune system when I am fighting stuff off. Anyway. I missed 911 last week, and went in this week. They had an anniversary card for me! And it included a $25 gift certificate to Chili's! That was really sweet of them, and it indicates that they like what I'm doing, I think. Volunteers at church and at the OUR center don't really get things. So we have dinner some night, and I'm grateful. It was also kind of cool today in that the machine was down, there was just one report in the queue I could do anything about, and someone had accidentally put...

Game Writeup: A Butterfly's Dream of Freedom

Title : A Butterfly's Dream of Freedom Game System : Tenra Bansho Zero - a game system that does a fine job of emulating Japanese Manga/Anime story elements. Where Played : Big Bad Con 2013 The Players : GM - Carl Rigney, Genosuke - Kevan Forbes, Masagoro - Shaun Hayworth, Kansuke - Thomas Fraser, Winter's Blessing - myself. Author's Notes : This is a story that was inspired by the game we played last October. All of the dreams of memory were actually each character's Zero Act, all played as part of the character setup. I've interspersed them where they impact the story, but you can see how the Zero Act really does a lot to develop each character in individual play. Carl has gone over this once with his memories of the game and some telling points as to Goichi's motivations. Shuan gave me some very specific knowledge as to Masagoro's feelings at the very end, which I needed to clarify. Thank you both for your help!! And other than that it's writte...