Back to the trenches

[thebitterguy]

Vacation's over, so it's back to work tomorrow. Gosh darnit.

Did both the Hot & Spicy food festival yesterday and Taste of the Danforth today.

Friday we went to the Merrill and dropped off my entire collections of Vampire, Werewolf & most of my Mage. It's strange to see most of a decade's worth of books just racked up on a cart.

I mean, those are a LOT of books, and I've spent a long time accumulating them through hook and crook (and occasionally commerce). I had always planned to run a few Werewolf: the Apocalypse games. It's a fun setting. But, honestly, I'll never get to run it. At this point, I've got enough games I would like to run that I never will that take up much less space.

They'll get my TORG books when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers.

The librarian who took receipt of them was very freindly, and very excited to see them all. Apparently the head librarian will be away for a few weeks (I suspect to Nippon) so I won't hear what they can use for a few weeks.

Hmmm. Maybe I should have got some kind of confirmation from her. Nah. They know what it was.

Hot & Spicy was kind of okay. There was no BBQ with racks of jerk chicken waiting to be bought, which was disappointing. I did get a few bottles of curry paste, apparently from a producer here in Milton..

Afterwards we went up to Hamilton to go to pyat and velvetpage's for some hangin' oot. We also played Apples to Apples (awesome game) and nottheterritory tried to get us to play Exciting Contraption or something, and failed because the energy levels had started to ebb.

Taste of the Danforth was nice. Went with Cynra, redeem147 and her husband. I had some Brazillian, a gyro, and some satay. And we took Cynra for some Saganakibecause she'd never had it. Man, I love that stuff.

Comments

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

So, you were 6 blocks north of my house and you didn't call, eh...

Meh, it's cool. (Note to self - take him off the "don't kill these people when you take over the world" list...)

Just kidding - glad you enjoyed TOTD. The food looked great, I'm just not big on stupid levels of stupid people, which was what Friday night was all about there.

[thebitterguy]

Yes, but by the time we were done I was very cranky and sleepy. It would have been like having a 200 pound toddler in the house.

It was not terribly crowded during the rain, but once it cleared up it got kind of busy.

What we should do someday is go to the Red Violin.

[rbowspryte.livejournal.com]

We could of had a game swap! I have tons to get rid of as well and I would of loved the Mage stuff. I have some Everlasting, castle Falkenstein, Twilight 2000, Last Unicorn Star Trek, GURPS and a few other items to get rid of....maybe the Merrill would want them (at the very least) for their Garage sale later in the year.

Are you a Friends of the Merrill member?

[thebitterguy]

The garage sale might be an idea. I figured I just wanted to be rid of them, so taking the books there was just easy. I'm lazy when it comes to easy.

I've never joined the FotM, but maybe they should give me a membership after this donation. Maybe put my name on a plaque somewhere.

[dawgstar.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, how many of the TORG books do you have? (I can't blame you for not getting rid of them. I'm still scrabbling after them, and God only knows if I'll every play it.)

[thebitterguy]

Hmmm... I have a lot. I don't have a catalogue, but off the top of my head, all the worldbooks (including Terra and Land Below) and the fiddly books (Pixaud's Grimoire, Miracles, the GodNet, Creatures of Aysle, Orrorsh & Tharkhold), the Infiniverse updates, the Delphi Council books, and a few adventures here & there (including High Lord of Earth, Gaunt Man Returns, and War's End, ach, ptui).

I think I have all the Infiniverse editions digitally.

I am missing Berlin and possibly Tokyo citybooks, but I have LA for sure.

I'd love a copy of Interview with a High Lord or whatever it was called.

I do not have the Kanawa Guides to Stuff, but didn't enjoy them that much in any case.

[dawgstar.livejournal.com]

It's possibly a testament to the wretchedness of the module, but even I, a newbie to the cosmverse, knows to stay the @#$% away from War's End.

The two biggest on my 'to get' list are Cyberpapacy and GodNet, with maybe Tharkhold following it. Everybody keeps giving it a 'Terminator meets Hellraiser' tag which certainly sounds interesting.

[thebitterguy]

I only got War's End because it was, you know, THERE. And it was during West End's big "end of Torg" sale, so that was, what, $2?

If I spot any of them, you want me to snag them for you?

[dawgstar.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. I'm really cash-poor at the moment, but I greatly appreciate the offer.