What made you happy today?

[Toad]

I managed to bathe Taite and not put myself in pain for the first time!

yep I know what you mean. how wet did you get?

[Xale]

I bought a life size bust of Beethoven.
Not sure where I'll put him yet, but I'm happy to have him indeed.

[TwinSpirits]

Toad - Not as wet as I thought I would, managed to just wipe down my legs and arms with a towel.

Xale - that sounds really cool!

Today I got to have big leonberger cuddles, was good.

[docmartin]

When riding home on my bicycle I outran a guy about 18 years old on a much better bike than mine. I managed to keep my advantage until the end of the gradient.
Well, OK, maybe in bed he's faster than me; another clear advantage for me

[Lady Ashmire]

I guess this is a happy, albeit with some second-guessing on my part:

The DM of my gaming group today took up a collection from the rest of the party and bought me a new set of dice at the end of the session. I was a little embarrassed because I wasn't sure if it was proper to accept, having done so only because I thought they were joking, and then they actually did it. But I think it's a good sign that they want me to continue playing---at least I hope so and not one of those NT things with a hidden point I don't get. I suppose I ought to think of some way to reciprocate, I was quite surprised since I've only met these people 2 or 3 times and don't know them all that well at all. ( It wasn't very much money, only about $1.50 per person since the sets are $7, and a necessary purchase once everyone caught on to the problem, but still...)

What happened was that, apparently, I've been playing D&D for the last 22 years( admittedly I have not played much for the past 10 until recently) unknowingly using loaded dice! ( but loaded the wrong way for cheating, at least in this edition.) I bought them when I was 12 because they had glitter inside and were the prettiest things I could imagine at that age, not realizing that the glitter had just enough weight to unbalance the results. It wasn't all that noticeable before because under the old rules you used the percentile die as often as the 20-sided and often actually needed to roll low, so a d20 that rolls a 3 about 60% of the time was actually a slight advantage but not a hugely obvious one, whereas under the new 4th Edition rules you roll the d20 a couple of dozen times or more during a session, for almost everything you need to do in the game, and generally won't hit anything with less than a 10, so it makes a considerable handicap.

I guess they could tell I have less money than most of them do ( older car, have mentioned living in a not-very-prosperous neighborhood), and today we were joined by the 14 y.o. son of one of the players( who might also be related to the DM since they all have the same last name, though it's a pretty common name and they don't look especially alike), who seems like an obvious Aspie---if that's the case and I'm as visible in the other direction, maybe having it in the family could give rise to additional sympathy, and they've also praised my miniature-painting skills quite a bit.

Anyway, I now have clear blue dice which are almost as pretty if not quite as stimmy to watch, and which will hopefully roll straight and let me hit some monsters!

[nyanchan]

I was having heaps of trouble with Studylink recently (VERY long story -- but to cut it short, they stopped my payments when they never should have.)

Yikes. That was so awful. But this morning I found out that it will all be sorted and now they are backpaying into my account for the last five weeks or so.

I had to complain about five times in five days, but... They finally acknowledged my existence!!

phewy.

[aliengirl]

I bought a life size bust of Beethoven.
Not sure where I'll put him yet, but I'm happy to have him indeed.

So how is your fine bust, if that is not too personal a question?

[Xale]

I bought a life size bust of Beethoven.
Not sure where I'll put him yet, but I'm happy to have him indeed.

So how is your fine bust, if that is not too personal a question?

He's quite well:



I found him at a moving sale in the neighborhood and I think he enjoys it here because he gets to listen to his music everyday.

[docmartin]

I found him at a moving sale in the neighborhood and I think he enjoys it here because he gets to listen to his music everyday.

You should play him some of his later works, he never heard them before...

[Lady Ashmire]

(Actually yesterday evening)

My fortune cookie read "Travel to the South for an unexpected joy". It turned out to be right in a manner of speaking. About 100 yards south of the Chinese restaurant was a music store having a big sale. I got my first-ever MP3 player with a rebate that will make it basically free, and a Gary Numan CD( been rather perseverating on him a bit lately, probably since he's one of us and a good antidote for other people's depressing ideas of autism awareness). So I guess I've joined the century or something, if I can get it to work, and keep from losing the darn tiny thing!