Thursday, May 17th

The Daily Report

Last night I had a dream that I got back to Omaha and was setting about putting things back in order there when I realized that I'd forgotten to tell my day job that I was leaving town for two months.

Of course, I don't have a "day job"... or rather, this is my day job. But in my dream, I was still doing data entry for a living and it was a serious chunk of my income that I was really depending on.

There were a lot of other anxiety-related things in the dream, including mix-ups involving missed calls on my flaky phone, but it was the job thing that really got to me after I woke up. Of course I had the confused moments of "Wait, do I still have that job?" since the version of my life in the dream had been so vivid, and then as awareness of reality returned I had the tremendous sense of appreciation that my life works the way it does.

State of the Me

Went to sleep at a reasonable hour last night. Slept okay.

Plans For Today

Got a chapter of Tales of MU to finish today. It's over 2,000 words, easily within striking distance. Following my new FIM cycle, I should be taking a stab at writing a flash story today.

End of day.

~2,500 words of fiction today.

Also did some editing/re-arranging of info in the AWW rules, but not in a way that substantially altered the word count.

I think the first AWW tests will happen very soon after I get back to Omaha. They might be kind of boring to anyone who's excited by the character building or story telling possibilities of the game, as they'll be geared towards testing the raw mechanics, especially in combat. So testers in the very first round will basically get two chapters of the rules and pre-generated characters with partial sheets. Got to make sure the nuts and bolts are sound first.