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Saturday was interesting, really. I went to work, and when I got home at 400pm, I had eleven hours until I had to be back at work. You see, I had one more week of training for those zone reports, mainly so I could learn how to get to some sales data I'd need.
So, Saturday night marked the first night in nearly two weeks (!) that I spent the evening at home. Rick stopped by, and we all talked. But no matter what, I was in bed, turning out my light, at 730pm. I am so glad I forced myself to go to bed, too. I got up at 130am, got ready, and went to work. I did my work efficiently, and was ready to leave for the other store ten minutes earlier than last week. So, to bide my time, I typed up a list of what I would do if I won the lottery. *laugh* (Sadly, that list involved a bunch of houses for my friends and family, cars for most of them, and debt payoffs for a lot of them. Material possessions could wait.)
I went through the training, and even got to get my hands "dirty" because I had to fix a formula in the spreadsheet. Apparently, they opened a store mid-period*, so it wasn't there for the first week, and when it showed up, it threw calculations off from there on. I got to fix some of those, and learn how the sheet ticked. Sweet. Heck, I basically got run off by the lady who does the report now, because I was perfectly willing to sit there for hours, figuring out what wasn't working right. *sigh*
I came home, called Brad about hanging out, and found out Charles wanted me to come over. Since I've been spending a lot of time with Charles and Melissa lately, I called and declined, but told Melissa (who I talked to) to keep me in mind if they wanna do anything this week. I got to Brad's, with D&D stuff in tow, and we immediately left to get food.
Our destination? Wal-Mart in Cordova. You can't beat getting corn dogs, Mountain Dew, and Rotel dip fixings for less than $20. We came back, made food, and ate.
Then, the subject of "what game to play on Sundays" came up again, as it has lately. I want to pick up my Silver Marches campaign a lot, but as June nears, I find myself really interested in running an Eberron campaign. Not the least of which is that Eberron is a new setting, so there's no "baggage" that comes with it; there are no "superheroes", so the PCs can be the heroes; and there will be full module support for it in Dungeon magazine and from WotC itself.
Rodney showed up, and we all talked about it for a while, until I mentioned one particular thing: Eberron allows for psionics. Rodney's eyes began to gleam, and I said, "I'm even going to allow the Psionics Handbook stuff to be playable in it." That sold Rodney, who's been dying to play a psion (kineticist) for a while. As the talk began about that, more people decided that would be a cool idea. In the end, Brad plans to do a psychic warrior/fighter tank-type character (because he's a little burned out on stealth and magic), Aron's going to do a Hexblade/Soulknife (I think he's going to steer this one for assassin - mark my words), and Rodney is going to be a Psion.
Rick showed up, and instantly wanted to do a Psion/Wizard. (Strangely, there's a prestige class in the XPH, not unlike Mystic Theurge, which works for that class combo.) Next, the talk turned toward, "what are we going to do until Eberron comes out in June?" The answer? Gestalt character mini-campaign.
So, next Sunday, I'm going to be running the guys through an adventure for their characters (that were created for this):
Aron - Aasimar Hexblade4/Soulknife3
Brad - Dwarf Psychic Warrior4/Fighter4
Rodney - Kalashtar** Psion (Kineticist)4/Monk4
Rick - Human Psion (Kineticist)4/Wizard4
I don't know what Scott wants to do yet, since he was in New Orleans over the weekend, but it should be fun. I've got an adventure I'm going to use already, too. (I love mining Dungeon for adventures. They're short, well-planned, and ready to run.)
Now, I'm going to try to get away from this computer for a while, and straighten my living space.
* - Kroger uses blocks of four weeks grouped together as "periods", and has thirteen of them a year.
** - Psionically active race from the Eberron setting, put up for perusal on WotC's web site.
So, Saturday night marked the first night in nearly two weeks (!) that I spent the evening at home. Rick stopped by, and we all talked. But no matter what, I was in bed, turning out my light, at 730pm. I am so glad I forced myself to go to bed, too. I got up at 130am, got ready, and went to work. I did my work efficiently, and was ready to leave for the other store ten minutes earlier than last week. So, to bide my time, I typed up a list of what I would do if I won the lottery. *laugh* (Sadly, that list involved a bunch of houses for my friends and family, cars for most of them, and debt payoffs for a lot of them. Material possessions could wait.)
I went through the training, and even got to get my hands "dirty" because I had to fix a formula in the spreadsheet. Apparently, they opened a store mid-period*, so it wasn't there for the first week, and when it showed up, it threw calculations off from there on. I got to fix some of those, and learn how the sheet ticked. Sweet. Heck, I basically got run off by the lady who does the report now, because I was perfectly willing to sit there for hours, figuring out what wasn't working right. *sigh*
I came home, called Brad about hanging out, and found out Charles wanted me to come over. Since I've been spending a lot of time with Charles and Melissa lately, I called and declined, but told Melissa (who I talked to) to keep me in mind if they wanna do anything this week. I got to Brad's, with D&D stuff in tow, and we immediately left to get food.
Our destination? Wal-Mart in Cordova. You can't beat getting corn dogs, Mountain Dew, and Rotel dip fixings for less than $20. We came back, made food, and ate.
Then, the subject of "what game to play on Sundays" came up again, as it has lately. I want to pick up my Silver Marches campaign a lot, but as June nears, I find myself really interested in running an Eberron campaign. Not the least of which is that Eberron is a new setting, so there's no "baggage" that comes with it; there are no "superheroes", so the PCs can be the heroes; and there will be full module support for it in Dungeon magazine and from WotC itself.
Rodney showed up, and we all talked about it for a while, until I mentioned one particular thing: Eberron allows for psionics. Rodney's eyes began to gleam, and I said, "I'm even going to allow the Psionics Handbook stuff to be playable in it." That sold Rodney, who's been dying to play a psion (kineticist) for a while. As the talk began about that, more people decided that would be a cool idea. In the end, Brad plans to do a psychic warrior/fighter tank-type character (because he's a little burned out on stealth and magic), Aron's going to do a Hexblade/Soulknife (I think he's going to steer this one for assassin - mark my words), and Rodney is going to be a Psion.
Rick showed up, and instantly wanted to do a Psion/Wizard. (Strangely, there's a prestige class in the XPH, not unlike Mystic Theurge, which works for that class combo.) Next, the talk turned toward, "what are we going to do until Eberron comes out in June?" The answer? Gestalt character mini-campaign.
So, next Sunday, I'm going to be running the guys through an adventure for their characters (that were created for this):
Aron - Aasimar Hexblade4/Soulknife3
Brad - Dwarf Psychic Warrior4/Fighter4
Rodney - Kalashtar** Psion (Kineticist)4/Monk4
Rick - Human Psion (Kineticist)4/Wizard4
I don't know what Scott wants to do yet, since he was in New Orleans over the weekend, but it should be fun. I've got an adventure I'm going to use already, too. (I love mining Dungeon for adventures. They're short, well-planned, and ready to run.)
Now, I'm going to try to get away from this computer for a while, and straighten my living space.
* - Kroger uses blocks of four weeks grouped together as "periods", and has thirteen of them a year.
** - Psionically active race from the Eberron setting, put up for perusal on WotC's web site.
