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May. 15th, 2009 10:08 amA while ago a friend of mine accused me of not being truthful in my journal. He said I was only showing certain parts of my life, editing them for my audience (at least, that's how I remember this. He told me this a long time ago). Lately, I can see his point. I feel like I've glossed over certain aspects of my life, mainly because I didn' think they were of interest to the public at large. That is going to stop. Basically, expect to see a little more gaming talk in my journal. You can always gloss over it if you see words like "HIT marks" or "attacks of opportunity".
We have a new player joining the Deadlands group, and she seems to be working out well. She's grasping the concepts and even more impressively the tactics of the game very quickly. I'm still prone to doing things in a "sub-optimal" way when I play, since I've always leaned on the character side of gaming and less on the stat crunching side. Couplingchaos' Mage game is also progressing nicely; our players are finally acting as a group, and have a list of plot things to look into. Playing in her game keeps fanning the fires of running another Mage game myself someday. I think I can really make the 007 style Mage game really fun to play.
Work has been interesting in several ways , mostly as a progression of how I handle the job. I spent a good chunk of Wednesday resolving an issue that seemed to be unsolvable, with the help of a Bank of America tech. I still have to roll my solution out to a few departments, but that will happen shortly. In the process of re-imaging some older machines, I realized I sent one out to a property without the latest round of fixes on it. I would have reacted to this in the past with a lot of anger and "why am I always doing something stupid like this? I should know better blah blah blah". Today I said "Look, that computer wasn't fixed correctly. I have another one that is fixed, which I'll ship out to you today. I'll even add the printer drivers you wanted and fix that Excel problem you reported." The user was fine with that, and thanked me for my work.
We have a new player joining the Deadlands group, and she seems to be working out well. She's grasping the concepts and even more impressively the tactics of the game very quickly. I'm still prone to doing things in a "sub-optimal" way when I play, since I've always leaned on the character side of gaming and less on the stat crunching side. Couplingchaos' Mage game is also progressing nicely; our players are finally acting as a group, and have a list of plot things to look into. Playing in her game keeps fanning the fires of running another Mage game myself someday. I think I can really make the 007 style Mage game really fun to play.
Work has been interesting in several ways , mostly as a progression of how I handle the job. I spent a good chunk of Wednesday resolving an issue that seemed to be unsolvable, with the help of a Bank of America tech. I still have to roll my solution out to a few departments, but that will happen shortly. In the process of re-imaging some older machines, I realized I sent one out to a property without the latest round of fixes on it. I would have reacted to this in the past with a lot of anger and "why am I always doing something stupid like this? I should know better blah blah blah". Today I said "Look, that computer wasn't fixed correctly. I have another one that is fixed, which I'll ship out to you today. I'll even add the printer drivers you wanted and fix that Excel problem you reported." The user was fine with that, and thanked me for my work.
