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Uh....I got nothing!

So, um, here's nothing!

Kids are well, they get up every morning at about 6 am... simultaneously, and instantly.  Peanut #1 had a big nightmare, so I was bunked in with her and was able to witness the awakening of the children.  Peanut #2 goes from completely asleep to awake and ready to play in about the time it takes to count slowly to 15.

The house is coming along, a little bit all the time.  I do want to get their playhouse built this summer still, but that is going to take some coordination to pull off.  And by coordination, I mean recruiting my mom to babysit.

I did get my fountain built but I want to redo it... because I'm never satisfied with something the first time.

Winter plans include my master bedroom wall repaint and retile, and finish off and trim in the basement, including the construction of all the infrastructure to make it a main entry way into the house (as in through the side door)

Parenting woes

My dedication to parenting patience took a blow this week with 3 days of solo-ing.
Day 1: Terrible
Day 2: Perfect
Day 3: Terrible so far.

Not entirely sure what to do about it, if it's a systemic problem I don't know why.  It just seems like Peanut #1 has to have a tantrum in the mornings no matter what we do.

I"m going to try not pushing for breakfast.  I try and get them downstairs and into the chairs to eat first thing, and maybe that's a bad plan.  Maybe I'll try a more... cuddly approach?

My sister also suggests letting her pick her own clothes for the next day, which is a pretty good idea too.., ah well, food for thunks

So impatient

I am working on increasing my patience.  It's hard!

I foudn a good series of pieces of advice, and the most valuable two are:

1) Anger is biologically addictive.  That's good to know!

2) Self-talk, and talking through the problem, totally work.
So basically I sound like this guy all the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPN4XjrwD78

Stuff what I do with my kids.

You know what, I am pretty good at this. In the last 12 months my kids have been to the following places. Most of them with such regularity that they know where the cookies are.
1. Art Gallery
2. Airplane Museum
3. Train Museum
4. Zoo
5. Arboretum
6. Wildlife Centre
7. Big Seat of Government Place.

8. edit: Also the Airshow

And it doesn't feel awesome; it feels like routine. I like that.

Fighting in the land of trust.

It is so nice to be able to say, "hey, I need to pick a fight with the Project Manager" and know that it will just be ONE FIGHT, not a week of terror.

"Let's have a fight about _______"



It's super nice, and it takes a lot of trust to do it, because it's hard to think that the grumpiness of the fight will actually go away, but it does.  It really does vanish away.

Hey fuckface.

"I would love to see some Nordic free form or black box style games in the future." I did submit a larp like that, on the request of the organizers, but then they rejected the very concept they had asked me to design. It was rather bizarre, all in all. So, that's why Nordic wasn't there. Maybe it's still too controversial. Or maybe I'm still too controversial. I'm not sure which."
Remember where the guy just said there were 2 freeform events? So actually, there were 2/5 events running free -form, so you are incorrect.

"The rationale provided to us was that "we have too many sci-fi games"...which, upon looking at the itinerary, seems like a weak one. Also, I note that just about all organizers are part of a crew of larpers that have known each other for about 30ish years or so. It's the usual suspects running the usual games, in other words, and "newfangled ideas" like Nordic seems not welcome."
Yes, asshole, because when you submitted, we had 4/6 games were Sci-fi. So yes, we didn't want to make it 5/6.  Also, the organizers have known each other, in case, for less than 5 years, and in another case, less than 12 months.  And again, as above, 40% of our games were free-form

"Same old, same old. I'll do my own things, I guess. As I've had to for the past 8 years."
You have done exactly fucking nothing in 8 years, except one LARP, that I get your site for you for free, and a whoooooooooooooooooooooooooole lot of bitching and moaning.

"And the way they conducted business this time was just...yeah. "
Hey, go fuck yourself

"the about a dozen or so people who have contributed to YYY (notably, none of the people behind XXXX have ever attended any YYY event), and the people behind the ZZZZZ project (which I've been unable to attend so far, but I'm dying to go). But these are all activities outside the mainstream and the mainstream shows absolutely no willingness to invite or respect us."
Yeah, I got you the site for the latest YYY event, so I guess my support is invisible to you?
Also, the ZZZZZ people showed up to this event and were awesome!
So if I'm the mainsteam, and I don't have any willingness to invite or respect you, I'm really bad at not inviting you or respecting you!
" I don't know what to believe anymore. I have a long history of not being treated terribly well by some people in this community, and my reaction has to be seen in that context. My perspective on this particular event has already been presented."
And presented, and presented, until your voice is synonymous with NOT FUN RANTING ABOUT HOW EVERYONE ELSE'S LARPS SUCK

FTR: Here's what I said to you when you submitted:

Thank you for submitting the SNIP to XXXX

We're going to say No at this point, because we had a lot of Sci-Fi submissions, and so we chose based on when people had submitted.

That said, we'd love to see the game happen, perhaps at a later event which we are considering for early 2017.

I hope this is ok

See that part where I invited you to look at early 2017? To which you never replied?

Go fuck yourself.

The usual

The kids have summer colds!  Huzzah!  So much mucus!
I think I'm getting close to divesting myself of a lot of my props or costumes.

I can't keep track of them, and I don't use them, so ... what's the point?