Author: Chris S.

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The Hero’s Journey and Journal

A couple of years ago, a close friend of mine suggested that I need to go on my Hero’s Journey.

Basically he meant that need to go through some quest, if you will, that can help me find or refocus my purpose, since I’ve definitely have lost my way, so to speak, in many aspects of my life.

I’ve been told by a couple of friends that one way that helps them focus is journaling, which I’ve looked at, but seemed like something that was a bit too much or not enough, depending on what I was trying to accomplish.

Which is my basic problem.  What the hell am I doing?

And then I came across a product called The Hero’s Journal.  A method to help me tell a better life story.

So I’m going to try an experiment with this product, setting up a quest and going through the 90 days (pages) of this journal to see if my goal can be achieved.

Simple goal, really, to see if I can lose the weight I’ve gained during the pandemic, if not more.

I’ve done weight loss before, but it was all gained back over the years, and then some, thanks to working from home/sheltering in place.

So part of the quest will be finding solutions and sticking with it over the 90 days.

I think writing this down will give me a better handle of what I’ve been doing (or failing to do) over the past year or so.

We’ll see what happens.

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D&D Thoughts

Why did it take me so long to look up how to armor a bear and finally discovering ‘barding’?

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My list of goals while playing role-playing games should include “Do Something Awesome”.

In our last session, we were fighting some big creatures, and my character’s turn came along, and another player said something like, “C’mon Chris, do something awesome!”

A few die rolls later and I brought down one of the creatures to a sliver of health on his hit points bar.  Another character finished off the creature.

So yeah, paladin smites are awesome.

When they hit.

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Otter race?!?!?

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Found

My sister Jen found a yellow fishnet bag with some old letters, a 50+ year-old Chinese Restaurant menu from Minnesota, and a set of negatives.

So I set up my little all-purpose media scanner thing and made pictures out of the negatives.

Behold!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen these pictures, in any form.

Oh, and here’s that Chinese Restaurant Menu:

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The Mandalorian Season 2: Reactions

Chapter 9: OH SHIT A KRAYT DRAGON
Chapter 10: HEY THAT’S APPA
Chapter 11: HOLY CRAP BO-KATAN
Chapter 12: ARE THOSE SNOKE CLONES?
Chapter 13: OMG AHSOKA
Chapter 14: BOBA FUCKING FETT IS BACK
Chapter 15: That poor Shoretrooper
Chapter 16: IS THAT REALLY HIM IT CAN’T BE NO WAY WAIT MAYBE IT IS HIM HOLY SHIT IT IS AND THERE’S R2

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Star Trek: Outpost Delta Tioga

I got a bug up my butt to create a new Star Trek role playing campaign that takes place concurrently with Lower Decks.

Circa 2380, Outpost Delta Tioga is located on the Romulan Neutral Zone.  It is the former site of Science Station Delta-05, which was destroyed by the Borg in 2364.

ODT is now a Federation Listening Post, but is still listed as a science station in Federation records.

The station is home port for the California-class USS Colma NCC-94014.

Occasionally personnel from ODT are assigned to the Colma for intelligence gathering missions along the Romulan Border.

The Romulans have long suspected the true nature of the outpost, but have so far turned a blind eye regarding ODT.

Until now.

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New Years Day

I seriously considered staying in my PJs all day today, until I walked back into the bathroom and saw the clothes I meant to wear after showering.

I put them there 3 hours earlier, but I got caught up watching Doctor Who.

I showered and changed, then reheated the fries and pizza that I ordered for dinner last night.

Now I’m watching the Godzilla Lounge Lizard Marathon on Comet TV.

At some point I’ll watch the new episode of Doctor Who, but that’s not for a few hours.

Cheers, everyone!

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/end 2020

At work, having just finished a breakfast burrito from Philz.  Their ‘Gratitude’ holiday blend is pretty good, too.

This isn’t the worst year of my life, far from it.

But I think it’s the worst year of our collective lives.

Because we’ve been living with this shit together, but apart.

I hope to see many of you soon(tm), in person, again, soon(tm) being the type reserved for when updates to City of Heroes would come out.

I let out a primal scream for about 1/2 a block as I drove to work today.  That actually felt good.

But then I couldn’t find parking near the Chinese bakery to get pork buns, so I had to opt for the Philz breakfast burrito.

Anyways, just rambling this morning, not rumbling like it was around 5:42 am.  I sat there thinking that this was it, this is how 2020 was going to finally do us in.

But the rumbling stopped after a couple of seconds, it was more like a boop on da nose.

So cheers to you all, my friends and family and imaginary people on the other end of the internets, here’s to making it to the end of this crappy ass year and to the new beginnings of the upcoming year.

Not that I expect everything to change overnight, y’know.

It’s a symbolic thing.  You understand.

2021 = 2020 won?  No, fuck that.

It was never a game to begin with.

Welcome to life, mother fuckers.

Let’s ride.