slave away in the kitchen <\/a>in the evening, whilst I stood by and made supportive noises. <\/p>\nSunday <\/b>was tentatively scheduled for the Pulp game follow-up. As we were returning from our morning outing, Margie called Doyce to get the scoop.<\/p>\n
She chatted for a moment, laughed, and said to the cell phone, “Okay, do you want to ask him or shall I?” Never a promising sign.<\/p>\n
She turned to me. “He wants to wait on the Pulp module until version 2.0. Do you want to do Spycraft<\/i>?”<\/p>\n
Eep. <\/p>\n
I’m a control freak and a planner and an introvert. Being asked to GM at the drop of a hat is … stressful.<\/p>\n
But, still — the module was still prepped, so I could hardly beg off. Besides which, it was something I wanted to do, right? And I’d had fun, and that folks wanted to do it was encouraging, and all that …<\/p>\n
… and besides, I knew this job was dangerous when I took it.<\/p>\n
So that’s what we did, and managed in the three hours of play to make our way through another 1.5 scenes of the 4-scene “3-5 hour” module, leaving 1.5 scenes to go. And folks seemed to have fun.<\/p>\n
And, yes, I am neurotic about the whole thing. I’m working on it. So there. <\/p>\n
Margie and I ran out the door in a flurry around 6 to deliver the dinners she’d made, and came back and cooked burgers for the assembled crew. Then folks eventually left, we got Kitten down, read a bit, synced our schedules for the week, and called it an early evening.<\/p>\n
All in all, not bad a bad weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Well, not entirely. There was an Orientation\/Picnic\/Open House at Kitten’s preschool (Dry Creek Elementary<\/a>). Lots of milling around outside and kids playing on the extensive playground equipment (the doors, which were supposed to open up at 5, didn’t open up until closer to 6:30). <\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ia.imdb.com\/media\/imdb\/01\/I\/57\/45\/50m.jpg\")
<\/a>Lileks was describing FV<\/i>, and the cohost noted the parallel to the much later Inner Space <\/i>with Martin Short.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/6305784922.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg\")
<\/a>So then we went home, put Kitten down, and had a quiet evening watching The World Is Not Enough<\/i><\/a>, which has a few moments, but is so far the low point of the Pierce Brosnan Bond run. (We haven’t seen Die Another Day <\/i>yet — that’s the last one, obviously, on our list.) I don’t know quite what the problem with the flick is — it just never quite gels. It has some goofiness akin to the Roger Moore era (notably the Attack of the Giant Buzzsaw Helicopters). It has an oddly sympathetic\/unsympathetic pair of Bad Guys. It both relies too much on previous supporting cast members, and introduces one who just simply doesn’t fit (John Cleese). It gives Judy Densch a chance to do something beyond sternly glower at mission control screens — and she comes off as a lesser character for it. <\/p>\n