deathmtn

The guy, thankfully, is much more aware of his own physical condition than I am.

When I'm sick, I think, well, I could be sick, but maybe it's just a passing thing. I'll go to work, then see how I feel. Sometimes I'm OK, but there's a lot of times when I realize I can't really sit up, then just go home after hours of suffering and possibly infecting my coworkers. (I'm actively trying to be better at this.)

Tonight, the guy said, "I'm super tired. I just want to read stories and go to bed." Sure enough, he had a temperature.

Wow. W.E.B. DuBois really knew how to represent data. These are all really good at leading the eye.

Oh, yeah, new newsletter is out! It's about making things with cardboard, writing riffs, and rewriting explanations. Plus, some bonus Wily content! (Bonus Wily content does not contain Bonus Cat.)

A brutal accounting of what it costs to run a RPG organization that creates, runs, and reports on games (and maybe more?).

KRS-One tells a good story, even in just normal conversation.

My friend Barry designed a really elegant role-playing game that captures the essence of Pacific Rim:
Sympathy and Admiration

It's a kind of guided storytelling process that has a little bit of party game in it, it feels like.

3-4-5-6-4-3. It's 58°F out, which actually makes things harder than usual. Nice to walk around in after, though.

There's a tendency some people (including me) have of thinking original Nazis murdered and tortured and the new Nazis harass and disinform, even though when I stop to think about it, I remember that both do both.

This part of the Wikipedia article on Kandinsky made me stop and recheck that classification again today:

Due to right-wing hostility, the Bauhaus left Weimar and settled in Dessau in 1925. Following a Nazi smear campaign the Bauhaus left Dessau in 1932 for Berlin, until its dissolution in July 1933. Kandinsky then left Germany, settling in Paris.

Harassment and disinformation, of course, were foundational to the Nazi movement, but sometimes the mass murder pushes that part out of your brain.

It also struck me that much of Kandinsky's career was conducted during times when the world was fucking terrible. WWI, the rise of Soviet Communism, the rise of the Nazis, WWII. He kept on doing his thing nonetheless.

I slept really well last night, and I am enjoying being alive again!

Sometimes, my sleep problems can't be helped, e.g. Kid waking, insomnia. This week, though, it's been self-inflicted. I've been reaching out of my bed to grab my phone to try to beat Dream Quest with more guys. I stopped that, hey, surprise, sleeping happens on time and is actually refreshing.