BLII - Out of Character Chat

[Stik]

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx

[Stik]

I'm off until Thursday.
Have a safe and happy Christmas, everyone.

[Stik]

So, Wednesday lunchtime my throat started feeling a bit sore. Didn't think much of it.
By the time I got home Wednesday night I had a fever and chills and nausea. Didn't eat anything, but that didn't keep me from - how do I put it delicately - "praying to the porcelain god" all night.
Made it to the doctor's office on Thurdsay. Doctor says I have an upper respiratory and sinus infection. Plus I have fluid in my ears that's making me too dizzy to walk in a straight line or to drive.
Got antibiotics and nasal spray. Went home and back to bed and didn't leave.
Now it's Saturday. I don't really know what happened to Thursday night or Friday other than I drank a bunch of gatorade and took my pills.

Want a weight loss tip? Get a bad upper respiratory infection. I haven't eaten anything since Wednesday but a few spoonfuls of soup and a three cookies, and I'm not even hungry. I don't even want to think about food. I can feel the pounds just falling away.

[Breila]

Be careful then you don't pick them up afterwards even more quickly than they left... that was what happened to me after a bowel infection last summer.

[Headshot]

I had fever and was throwing up on thursday (luckily I had thursday off) just have a slight stuffy nose on friday and saturday but ever since yesterday I have been feeling a tickle in my throat and I wheeze when I breathe....

[Ismaels-Legacy]

You're a fan of Glenn Cook and the Black Company series, aren't you Stik?

[Stik]

As a matter of fact, I am.
Why? Am I channeling Cook in the game thread?

[Ismaels-Legacy]

No, but your Legion members are!

[Stik]

When I read those books (and it was recently - I somehow managed to miss them when they came out years and years ago) my first thought was: 'This is exactly the kind of D&D campaign I would like to play in.' Well, that with a side order of Thieves' World.

By the way, everyone, if you haven't read the Black Company books by Glen Cook, go to the library or bookstore and get them. Track them down if you have to. They're a great read.

[Breila]

You'd have to lend me yours, I doubt I get a chance to get them here in Germany.

[Ismaels-Legacy]

Also, he has a very specific way of writing that seems really simplistic at first, but the whole series is written as if it were Chronicled by on of the mercenaries, so the series (At least the first six books) have a very specific style.

[Stik]

You'd have to lend me yours, I doubt I get a chance to get them here in Germany.

I would gladly lend them, but I suspect the cost of shipping them from the U.S. to Germany would be more than the cost of buying them new.

The first book starts with a medic in a mercenary company doing sick call, and learning that every sick man in the company had eaten at a particular restaurant, this confirms his suspicion that the restaurant workers have been poisoning the mercs, and prompts the mercs to raid the restaurant and interrogate the staff.
It's that type of gritty, down-to-earth detail that hooked me on the series.

While there is a place for heroes in shining armor riding white horses, I prefert to read about guys whose armor is slightly rusty and in need of repaired, and who walk in order to let their horse rest before battle.

[Headshot]

{ooc} Has Papa ever met this hermit before?

[Stik]

No. The party's only been in the area for a few days.

[Stik]

Got somewhere between 15" to 18" of snow overnight (hard to tell. The drifts were much deeper than that). My wife and I spent two and a half hours shoveling snow this morning. I'm exhausted.

The street I live on has a fork in it about two houses past mine, and the snowplow guy always comes down the main street and plows in a straight line, rather than coming down the side fork, or shifting to the right when he passes it. So when he plows in front of my house, he's about 12-15 feet from the curbline, which means I have to shovel 12-15' out into the street, for the whole width of my two-car-wide driveway.
Not a big fan of the snowplow guy.

Could have been a lot worse, though. Fifteen miles east of here, they got 30" of snow, and on one highway about 150 cars were abandoned because the storm came in so fast that the drivers just couldn't go any further.