Dark Fantasy X

I had a terrible weekend. I got myself either sick or rundown or both sometime in the middle of the week last week, and actually bailed on work for the second half of Tuesday and all of Wednesday. I went into the office on Thursday, and was "strongly encouraged" to attend the picnic. So I did, but even my boss said she could tell I was running out of steam partway through. And I left early even so. And then I had to pick up my son at the airport, who was blowing into town for the weekend. His flight was supposed to land at midnight, which was bad enough, but it got delayed several hours. By the time I actually got to bed on Friday morning, it was 4AM. But no rest for the weary; I needed to be up shortly after 8, and I had some work activity around 9. Halfway through the day, I couldn't do it anymore, although I still didn't get very good rest.

So the entire weekend, I was overly tired and felt terrible. Sunday was kind of worst; I was in a daze most of the day, and could barely keep my eyes open at church. I came home afterwards and took a nap, but was still sleepy and zoned out most of the evening, until going to bed.

Now, Monday morning, I'm sorta recovered, but still kind of tired. It will take me a few days of normal, regular sleep, I think, to get out of this haze, and any really bad night, for any reason, will probably cause a relapse. This kind of thing happens to my wife frequently, but it hasn't really happened to me much before. I don't know if I'm more tired now than I have been in the past, or the problem has been prolonged and exacerbated by other stress, or if I'm just getting too old to have that kind of schedule and still be reasonably functional anymore.

Anyway, one good thing that came out of the weekend is that further discussion about "we should play 'D&D'" was had by my son in law, my oldest son, and my daughter in law. I should be able to grab at least those three, and maybe my daughter too, and I've told them both that if you give me an hour to collect my notes and print some stuff off, I can run anytime. Not that this was a good weekend to make the attempt, nor is next weekend, nor any of the nights this week, I don't think. But still—I think at some point, if we don't play, it's because I was the one dithering around and not making it happen. Another series of blog posts will probably start where I summarize notes from our play sessions, and maybe I'll even make some youtube posts about it. They won't be as cool as Professer DM's play reports, like the Reviled Society, but we'll see what they end up being, if I get that far.

Ironically, my "heat" for roleplaying games right now is a bit low. I've been blowing my free hobby time on playing Heroes of Might & Magic III again, something I haven't done in years, while the novel I started before going out of town a few weeks ago is untouched, my Enemy Within readthrough has had little love, and I haven't even made HeroForge models or thought much about Dark Fantasy X at all.

Time to get back in the saddle with life. It's been chaotic both at home and at work lately, but you've gotta wrassle life back into shape if you don't want to be at its mercy sometimes.