Weekend Update

First things first. Here’s me at D&A’s house. Yes, the infamous “John drank a little too much” party. I had two whiskeys, a shot of vodka, and a margarita. That should tell you something about my drinking habits:

I didn’t so much get drunk as I got very happy.

Friday
, Rob and I went down to the 3rd Street Prominade for some Greek food. We bumped into The Masked Guitarist, and I stopped for a minute to watch him. I love guitar, and he played a mixture of Mozart, Spanish Florentine, and something else that was familiar but I couldn’t recognize. He’s lots of fun and I never have any money to tip him.

Saturday
The L5R game was that night, and in the morning, I went over to my folks’ house to pick up some furniture. They’re moving to Los Vegas, and they don’t want to take anything with them. So, I picked up some dressers, some bookshelves. My buddies also got some goodies.

The L5R game had ten players. Everyone had a blast. It was difficult to convince the Kids to show up — they wanted to play Vampire — but eventually, they accepted my invitation and walked away smiling brightly. I’m having so much fun running this game, I can’t even explain it. A monitor from work — good ol’ Nate — showed up to play, and spent much of the time just absorbing everything. “You aren’t running a standard game, are you?” he asked me. No, I’m not. It is L5R almost ten years after the fact. Everything I’ve learned about storytelling, magic, game design. For me, it’s L5R 1.5. I have fun because they have fun. I like it more than the Vampire game, but don’t tell anybody.

Sunday
A slow, quiet day. I spent all of Saturday night writing a script and had 58 pages when I was finished. Started editing right away. Still inspired by the game from the previous night. needed a new car battery, so Rob and I helped him pick it out and install it.

We went to Third Planet Comics in Torrance — a great store. I was reading an interview with Alan Moore, talking about his divorce. It struck me strange, that. I don’t know why. He talked about his wife living twenty minutes away, how they see each other at least three times a week, but are just apart from each other. They have children together, but seperated because they were driving each other insane, and it was more important that they have a healthy relationship than a bad marriage.

That hit me hard.

Then, we all retired to the pad and talked about live action rules. Now, I’m doubly excited.

This is what healing feels like.