4 Days

Not sure of how the kickstarter actually works, or when it actually starts at this point.  I set it for today, but I see from the website that it "might" take a while longer.  Ah, patience.

For the long weekend, I've arranged a 4-day road trip with friends, starting tomorrow, to small resort towns in southeast British Columbia ... my first overnight stay since 2017, when I last did a game con in Edmonton.  Plans are to see the hot springs at Radium, some of the Purcell Wilderness, the forest where my grandfather lived off the grid as a squatter (hunter, farmer & ornithologist) near Cranbrook, the Kootenay valley and Nelson (though I think I'm too old for serious bouldering) and a good part of the Columbia River valley.  Mountains, rocks and trees, and water ... a true Canadian landscape.

Always good to get back to the basics.

I'm being held to a commitment not to access my email or blog during the trip, so I'll be doing so only surreptiously when I can slip away from witnesses ... because obviously such commitments are silly and of no importance.  Nonetheless, my marriage is important so I'll be sly about it.  No one needs to know (unless she reads this blog, whereupon she'll assume I'm kidding).

I plan to have fun.

I'll be gone on the 6th of September, so I won't be observing my 42 anniversary of playing D&D on Monday (unless I want to do so late at night, which I won't, because I'll be beat).  I don't have anything special to say about it anyway, except that 42 is a very, very long time.  This is 8 more years than Gygax played the game and 7 more than David Arneson.  I think those numbers are relevant.

Please support the kickstarter.  Be well all.