10 things in 2020 (things 6-10)

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 09:46:00 GMT

6. I tried out digital drawing for Drawtober, mostly using Krita (open source paint program), and did one drawing a day during the month. You should be able to see them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10103380935724870&type=3 but ask me for a better link if you'd like.

I also wrote fanfic for the yuletide fanfic exchange (see previous post), and a few snippets and original fic. And experimented with making some board game designs including Pentacle-Assembling Demon Summoning game, Xenobotany game, Assassins Guild Annual DInner, etc.

7. We survived lockdown basically all year. We isolated from each other for two weeks at one point when it was the responsible thing to do, and probably it didn't make a difference but I'm glad we tried. We had evenings from the top and bottom of the stairs eating dinner and playing board games with each other electronically, like something out of a romantic drama. We had a lot of zoom and skype parties. We managed to visit each of our parents and a few other people outside, doing a day's drive without staying overnight. And saw the sea.

8. I tried out six different gyms, chose one, tried to set good habits, and then got set back by lockdown again and again. I am still trying to build a consistent improvement in jogging and weights, but I am making some progress there.

9. We continued our world film project from India to Japan, so less than one film a month, but it's been good to have in mind. At this rate we'll have finished in about 20 years :)

10. I continued on and off various projects to unfuck my brain reading some relevant books, trying to make time for some relevant exercises. I still don't have a good overview, but I feel like what I did was useful.

ETA: Link to fic https://archiveofourown.org/works/28297368 https://archiveofourown.org/works/28140054

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Ten things in 2020

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:08:27 GMT

What happened in 2020? Well, eliding a bunch of pandemic stuff I could swear about for tens of thousands of words:

1. We had dinner at Midsummer House for our anniversary. We'd never been sure if it was quite worth it for vegetarians, but when we did it was very very very nice.

Also we got ourselves a breadmaker, which has been extremely useful all year. We really love having fresh bread on tap.

2. I started a new job at the beginning of the year, and pandemic has made everything kind of tiring and given other ups and downs, but overall it's gone very well.

3. I finished running an 18-month long rolelaying campaign, in the fabled Under-Labyrinth I invented, using DnD 5e rules. I also ran an adventure for our partners and their children set in a village on the back of one of the turtles in a big school-archipelago, where they're mentors to a young small island-turtle. And I ran a one-off for some friends from the ex-heffers rpg group.

I also played in a Descent into Avernus game (dnd 5e goes to mad max hell) run by one of the players from the campaign I was running. And one in a Mediterranean medieval faerie tale world run by an old friend from the Cambridge tolkien society. And one in a giant 3d magicpunk city ran by a nanowrimo friend.

4. I kept organising the Cambridge Poly Meet. It was really hard to keep the group going through lockdown. There's a lot I wished I could have done but didn't manage because my attention was elsewhere. But I kept it going.

5. I kept playing semi-regular bridge with Cambridge and London friends online (and also with other friends, partners, and Rachel's family). Spent a year playing Gloomhaven with Rachel and sometimes other partners. Intermittently returned to a long-running Stellaris game. Played a lot of Fortnite with partners' children and with Rachel. Played Penultima with SGO friends. Lots of so-pretty Hades. Steamworld Dig and other games on the new Switch. Other board games.

TBC.

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10 things in 2020 (things 6-10)

Ten things in 2020