Hello Top Men and Top Women! It’s the time for some blah-blah.

It’s been roughly a month and a half and the new job is not really agreeing with me. It’s not difficult, but I’m not liking it very much. Staying motivated is difficult. I have to push myself to pick up the phone for every file. I haven’t felt this down at work since I was working Collections. The silver lining is that what I’m doing right now isn’t my real job. I’m just doing it so I know how things work.

Fortunately, my social life is in a much better place. When I stay at home it’s because I want to, not because I have nothing to do. I’m starting to feel a little more comfortable in my skin again. The voices are still in my head but I’m doing better at believing I’m an okay person to be around.

I finished season 2 of Daredevil over the weekend. It’s been good, though the violence is a little excessive for my taste. I just watched the first episode of Luke Cage before starting to write this. It didn’t completely hook me in, but I’m curious enough to continue. I’m digging Mike Colter as Cage. He has great charisma. I want to hear him say, “Sweet Christmas” at least once and I’ll be happy.

That’s it for this week. I know there isn’t a whole lot of meat on these blog bones, but it’s like whenever I sit down to write one, my mind goes blank. It takes me forever to put what I’m thinking into words so the hour I set for this goes by with very little getting written. At any rate, I’m doing bloggin’ so have yourselves a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday when I expect I may have a word or two to say about Wrestlemania (it’s this Sunday). Carja V.

Hello there Top Men and Top Women. This week’s blog isn’t going to be very long so let’s get right to it.

Yesterday my gaming group held a special game day to end the March Break. It was a nice time overall. It ended with a super long game of Stone Age. Why was it super long? Because the end game condition wasn’t explained properly (or we simply misunderstood). What should have taken about an hour to an hour and a half ended up taking over three and a half hours…I didn’t get home until close to midnight and I am simply burnt today. I don’t know how I made it through work to be perfectly honest but I somehow managed.

This Saturday I delve back into D&D with some friends from work, at least half of which have never played before. I’ll be helping them make characters and then at a later date to be determined, I’ll run them through an adventure. If it goes well, it could become a recurring thing. If not, well we gave it a try. I’ll finally have gotten to try out 5th Edition.

As promised, that concludes this week’s blog. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.

Hey there Top Men and Top Women, glad to have you back for another blog post.Let’s get to it.

I started training for my new job last week. The schedule isn’t the best. We’re going from 8 to 4 and the bus schedule has me arriving and leaving on the half hour. That leaves me with a half hour to kill before and after my work day every day. Fortunately that should end soon, like Wednesday. As for what I think of the work I’ll be doing…I’m reserving judgement still.

I went a little crazy on Kickstarter this past week. I hadn’t backed anything since July and now I’ve backed two projects and pre-ordered a third that successfully funded. I’d tagged a few that were interesting over the past few months, but ultimately didn’t pull the trigger on any of them. These three really spoke to me though I guess. Too Many Bones should actually be shipping soonish, while Quodd Heroes and By Order of the Queen will arrive late in the year.

I spent the day at Les Dés Truqués, the new gaming café in town. It wasn’t the plan. I had lunch and was sorting my Destiny cards and the place was starting to fill up. I didn’t want to hold up a table, so I started packing up. That’s when the owner arrived with some friends who were there to game with other folk. I was other folk and so I gamed with them for the rest of the day and evening. My two favorites are ironically the ones whose names I can’t remember. One was a nifty crafting game that used dice as resources and the other was a neat little trick-taking game. Other games I played included Kharnage, which I didn’t care for at all, Dogs of War and Planetarium which were alright and Eggs and Empires which I’ve mentioned before. I also did a little promotion for Lords of Waterdeep as I helped teach it to a couple who were looking for a new light to medium-weight game to play. Good day. Good day.

It’s looking like I may run a small D&D session in the near future. I was going to start playing in a campaign with some people at work but the closer we got to it, the less I felt like it was going to work for me so I pulled out (and not as gracefully as I would have wanted to). I was talking about it with some other co-workers and one of them mentioned he’d always wanted to give D&D a try. And so as I closed the door on one opportunity, another one opened up. Weird.

Episode 85 of Critical Role aired a couple of weeks ago and it packed quite the punch. Sam Riegel is amazing. It’s amazing how much you can become invested in a group of characters. I won’t say more because I wouldn’t want to spoil things for somebody thinking about watching the show. It’s a huge time investment (each episode is between 2 and 4 hours), but so much fun.

Raw is about to start and I have yet to have supper so that’s all for this week. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.