Chaosbutterfly

Why is it that everyone wants to schedule their stuff at the end of July?  Sail training started a week ago. I am giving it a miss, but I really miss it.  The people are a lot of fun and I really miss them.  However, I like being able to move around without pain.  My body needs the break, so I am listening to it for a change.  I guess it’s just as well in that my dad was in town last weekend anyway, and the post mortem meeting for ApolloCon 2009 was this Saturday.  I was debating on going, but it turned out to be a good meeting and we got a lot done.  They want my help with the LARP this next year.  I am seriously thinking of doing it.  I have a lot of quest writing experience from Amtgard so I think I can pull this off.  The biggest difference is that in Amtgard quests, everyone comes with their own established characters.  I will have to write each and everyone of these parts for all the participants in a LARP for a convention.  I’ve done that before, it takes a  while and can be fun to do.  I have a lot of friends in Amtgard who probably can help with this and from what Kim tells me, she may allow boffer fighting.  This will draw in Amtgarders and open up a lot of possibilities and problems too.  There are a lot of details to be worked out as you can see.  I can foresee a problem with players who wish to be non combatants and how will they function in this.  There are tried and true Amtgard solutions for these things that I bet we can adapt to this.  Sounds like fun. heheh

In other news, I’ve added a color printer to my little computer set up.  I’ve been wanting one for a long time to print out things like charts so I picked up a freecycled HP 720C just the other day.  Its an old parallel printer all it needed was a couple of cartridges and a usb to parallel cable and I was up and running in no time.  It’s networked in through the linux machine and all my computers can print to it except the handheld.  The only problem I’ve run into is that there are no drivers for a Mac or the handheld for this printer.  It’s old, I know, and I’m still working on that problem.  The generic driver works for now, but color doesn’t print very well through the mac but it will print text just fine.  The hand held can’t print at all through it, another problem to solve but it has no problems with printing to the lazer jet.  No problems for the laptop and the linux  machine however.  I did manage to get everything to print to the other HP printer, something I’ve not had time to fool with on the mac and I am pleased about that.