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Travelling back and forth for work again, due to a problem with travel approvals internally in the company. That prevents me from heading up earlier in the week, and going home later, and instead makes me need to travel up and back in the same day. Basically, I can charge mileage without needing approval, but any hotel or food expenses must be approved no less than 14 days in advance. And of course, with all the internal company changes, the approval chain keeps changing, making it nearly impossible to get that approval with the proper lead time. Fortunately, next week…
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On Sunday, as planned, we played a game of Zombicide: Black Plague, instead of our regular Pathfinder game (due to a lack of players). Overall, it was a strong success, everyone seemed to have a great time. We only ended up playing Quest 1 – Big Game Hunting, and after a lot of cooperation (and the loss of 2 characters), managed to pull out a victory. For a group of new players, we were very happy with this result, despite the mission being listed as “easy”. To my knowledge, we didn’t cheat on the rules at all either, though we…
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Got the opportunity to play some RuneWars Miniatures with my younger son over the weekend – a game he picked up a few weeks ago and had been eager to try. Not sure if after playing he is fully sold on the game, though he is eager to buy more figures now, but I don’t know if he ended up truly understanding the game itself. Being 9, he is more interested in just playing with the miniatures, rather than playing a rules-based game. However, RuneWars is written simple enough that he can understand it, and grasp the mechanics, while still…
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Lots of plans for this weekend, for what was supposed to have been relatively quiet. Fortunately, most are what I would consider fun activities, so not a big concern. Tonight we head down to the summer camp to visit my son, who has been at camp all week. Should be a good moral booster for him to see everyone. Tomorrow, Ben and I are planning on finally playing Runewars (video possible) – I have read the rules and mechanics, and it should be a simple enough game to pick up. And Sunday, although we postponed the next Pathfinder game, we…
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I was attempting to configure a custom Ark server for my son, who is eager to try some of the numerous Admin codes, but unfortunately it was overloading my minimal webserver, and preventing WordPress from responding. As a result, you may have noticed a lot of lag over the last couple of days, or pages unable to load. That should be resolved now (I turned off Ark), and I will need to find an alternative home for the service. I am not excited about another hosting subscription, but that is how we run our main instances, so it may be…
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So here I am on my latest round of work-related travel, when I discover that my intended video sync-up on my laptop did not take place as planned. As a result, I am stuck downloading the 22 GB file over hotel wi-fi from my home server. Not a good start to my attempt to get caught back up on my editing efforts for the Pathfinder game. Fingers crossed it will be completed by the time this is posted, so I can start the editing, but I honestly am not counting on that. Unfortunately, I don’t have much alternative time once…
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Due to some scheduling conflicts, we are not going to be having our regular Pathfinder session this week, so I am going to attempt to fill the gap with a game of Zombicide: Black Plague. Should be a lot of fun, and still be able to occupy the players who are available. And incidentally gives me more time to finish editing the last game session, for which I am behind schedule on.
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My kids recently have taken an interested in online gaming streaming, specifically around our efforts with Ark: Survival Evolved. After a bit of discussion, they have encouraged me to try my hand at that sort of effort and content again myself. I had previously made some short-lived efforts which lived on Twitch, but never really got into the mechanics and process – and certainly never gained any sort of following – so it ended up dropped to the side. The newest effort is to reside on YouTube, and continue to showcase our growing Ark environment on our private server. Nothing…
Halfling13 Hobbies
Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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