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1. I still have the moustache I grew to play the villainous captain in The Duchess of Coolgardie and kept to play the upstanding colonel in the Christmas show; it seemed a pity somehow to lose it after all the time I spent cultivating it, so I've decided to keep it at least until I find out if my next role will need it. It has, however, been trimmed back to a more comfortable size now that there's no longer any call for it to be waxed into points.
2. Yesterday, I finished the first "season" of Doctor Who Legacy. I think I have to admit that I have, despite my earlier doubts, been sucked into the game, and I'm making reasonable progress at picking up the strategies. But I stand by everything I said earlier about the lack of anything resembling a plot and the Doctor Who elements being a thin veneer over mechanics that bear little or no resemblance to whatever Doctor Who thing they supposedly represent.
3. Today, while I was doing Christmas shopping, I discovered that the local toy shop, which I have been in many times before, has a door at the back, which in my defence is really only visible if you look at it at the right angle, that leads into a separate area containing what you might call toys for grown-ups (though the sign actually says "Hobbies"): scale models, miniatures, and a broader range of board and card games than the display on the main floor where every second game is another version of Monopoly. I've been wishing for ages that we had a proper game shop here that sold games like Carcassonne and Dixit and Arkham Horror, and apparently we have had the whole time and I just never knew about it. The same goes again for the local tabletop gaming club whose flyer was on the wall. (Though frankly if the only place they advertise their existence is in a room that makes me want to start quoting the "on display in the local planning office" scene from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I have to wonder if they don't really want to be found.)
4. Although I did not sign up for Yuletide this year, the number of Treats I've written after browsing people's Yuletide letters is greater than zero.
5. This fortnight's video link: Wanderers, an amazing short (under five minutes) science fiction film by Erik Wernquist. Watch it in full screen if you can. This reaction post by astronomer Phil Plait is worth reading afterward, but watch the film first. (hat-tip: Rosemary Kirstein, who knows a thing or two about sensawunda herself)
2. Yesterday, I finished the first "season" of Doctor Who Legacy. I think I have to admit that I have, despite my earlier doubts, been sucked into the game, and I'm making reasonable progress at picking up the strategies. But I stand by everything I said earlier about the lack of anything resembling a plot and the Doctor Who elements being a thin veneer over mechanics that bear little or no resemblance to whatever Doctor Who thing they supposedly represent.
3. Today, while I was doing Christmas shopping, I discovered that the local toy shop, which I have been in many times before, has a door at the back, which in my defence is really only visible if you look at it at the right angle, that leads into a separate area containing what you might call toys for grown-ups (though the sign actually says "Hobbies"): scale models, miniatures, and a broader range of board and card games than the display on the main floor where every second game is another version of Monopoly. I've been wishing for ages that we had a proper game shop here that sold games like Carcassonne and Dixit and Arkham Horror, and apparently we have had the whole time and I just never knew about it. The same goes again for the local tabletop gaming club whose flyer was on the wall. (Though frankly if the only place they advertise their existence is in a room that makes me want to start quoting the "on display in the local planning office" scene from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I have to wonder if they don't really want to be found.)
4. Although I did not sign up for Yuletide this year, the number of Treats I've written after browsing people's Yuletide letters is greater than zero.
5. This fortnight's video link: Wanderers, an amazing short (under five minutes) science fiction film by Erik Wernquist. Watch it in full screen if you can. This reaction post by astronomer Phil Plait is worth reading afterward, but watch the film first. (hat-tip: Rosemary Kirstein, who knows a thing or two about sensawunda herself)
