Things Done
Jan. 1st, 2024 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnIt's been a wild and windy festive season. I had thought of going to one of the many festive swims, or perhaps out in the kayak, but it was so cold and wet and wild that staying indoors seemed more appealing, not to mention safer.
Most days, even Theo was happy with one short walk and swiftly back inside to toast himself in front of the electric fire.
Pp mentioned that he might like one of the new style of wooden GM's screens that you can customise with relevant bits of paper for various different campaigns. I looked at loads of them, and none of them seemed quite the way I would like them to be, so I've ended up planning to make one, which will take way longer than just buying one of course, but then it's hardly urgently needed. And it's fun to design it and work out where the magnets and things will go.
One day in Betwixtmas, I forced myself to go through all the paperwork that had been hastily stuffed in a corner when the roof came off in storm Eunice in 2022, plus the paperwork that had arrived since then and been stuffed in a pile because what's the point in filing new stuff when you still have piles of old stuff...right?.
Thankfully, all the building work and repairs are now over and done, and this was one of the few last messy odds and ends from that particular crisis. And now it's all been gone through and put in the appropriate place in a filing cabinet, which feels like a disproportionately large relief.
I tried writing something for the LOTR-SESA prompt fest, about Dain Ironfoot, but it ended up longer than I intended and I didn't make the deadline. Oh well, it can go up next week, I suppose!
Tomorrow it's back to work, and it's going to be a busy one: I think we currently have 40 orders waiting to go out, not to mention all the stock piled up on the floor waiting to be documented and photographed and put on the website.
Best wishes to all for the New Year.
Most days, even Theo was happy with one short walk and swiftly back inside to toast himself in front of the electric fire.
Pp mentioned that he might like one of the new style of wooden GM's screens that you can customise with relevant bits of paper for various different campaigns. I looked at loads of them, and none of them seemed quite the way I would like them to be, so I've ended up planning to make one, which will take way longer than just buying one of course, but then it's hardly urgently needed. And it's fun to design it and work out where the magnets and things will go.
One day in Betwixtmas, I forced myself to go through all the paperwork that had been hastily stuffed in a corner when the roof came off in storm Eunice in 2022, plus the paperwork that had arrived since then and been stuffed in a pile because what's the point in filing new stuff when you still have piles of old stuff...right?.
Thankfully, all the building work and repairs are now over and done, and this was one of the few last messy odds and ends from that particular crisis. And now it's all been gone through and put in the appropriate place in a filing cabinet, which feels like a disproportionately large relief.
I tried writing something for the LOTR-SESA prompt fest, about Dain Ironfoot, but it ended up longer than I intended and I didn't make the deadline. Oh well, it can go up next week, I suppose!
Tomorrow it's back to work, and it's going to be a busy one: I think we currently have 40 orders waiting to go out, not to mention all the stock piled up on the floor waiting to be documented and photographed and put on the website.
Best wishes to all for the New Year.
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Date: 2024-01-02 08:26 am (UTC)The DM screen sounds wonderful. If you're inclined to share pictures when it's done then I'd love to see how it turns out.
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Date: 2024-01-02 11:13 am (UTC)"Betwixtmas!!!" I love it! I'm officially adopting it now!
And yes, there's something extremely satisfying about de-stuffing paperwork (even though it's still stashed somewhere you don't really see it, only now ordered).
Ha! Opposite season, but I've been feeling much the same about sticking my head outdoors: we've had crazy winds gusting gale force nonstop since thanks to El Niño; today is the first marvellously welcome calm day since before the solstice, although I've ventured out to be pummelled by the wind fetch waves a couple of times since. The water has been divinely warm though.
So... the screens and campaigns you're mentioning, I take it this is for a role playing game? (I'm utterly ignorant of them, but the more I hear people speak about them, the more I'm thinking "where have I been all my life!?")
Oooph... work does sound busy; may it be enjoyably busy!