I sit here, watching a movie about cooking and thinking about my relationship with food. Since the new approach will more more finesse, I have to think this through. And that means that I need to begin with goals. You have to know where you are aiming to hit when you don't intend to simply… Continue reading Reassessment: Food, Food, Food
If you want to be the kind of person you always imagined that you wanted to be..... at a certain point you just have to do it. You have to cut and tear and push your way to the person that you want to be. At some point, brute force is required. You have no… Continue reading Reassessment
Download Poison Ivy, a build I was excited to start. I gave this a lot of thought, and I figure out what I wanted her to be, a druid, bard, ranger. If you're wondering why... nature spells, the ability to manipulate each other and terrain benefits for the woodlands. The levels here are fairly low… Continue reading NPC Build: Poison Ivy
The time has come. After years of resisting the idea, I am going to give up and learn python. Now, you might be wondering why I have been holding off on this for so long. Spacing. Yes, I am 100% serious, spaces and tabs are the actual reason. I hate doing it. I tend to… Continue reading Eventually Python Happens
As I had mentioned in the first post I did on stress management, the solution to one of my problems is that I have need to update my skill set. As I want to make this not just a surface change, but tear down to the bear bones redesign of my skill set, I have… Continue reading Skill Set Upgrade: Creating A New Foundation
Download I'm a massive nerd if you have not guessed by now. And Batman was one of the first gateway drugs into that world, but it was never the massive hypocrite skulking the city streets, but the rogue's gallery. They are ones worth reading (and watching and picking up a controller) for. So today, I… Continue reading NPC Build: Scarecrow
Recently, I got the chance to try the beta of the AWS Cloud Champion training. They billed it as a "gamified tutorial" that is designed to "...teaches participants the basics of cloud computing through a virtual showcase" and lets just say, it was a disappointment to say the least. This is actually what it looks… Continue reading AWS Cloud Champion?
In the first part of this series, we talked about some of the things that you can do to mitigate the stressors in your life. Coming at them with a realistic point of view; there are problems that you can solve and ones you can work with/around.Now, we move into what I consider the second… Continue reading Moving Towards A More Practical Stress Management Pt 2
Stress... lately a lot of it has been floating around. And I'm no exception, for reasons personal, professional, family and health issues. Life is a challenge, and when I look at the options for managing it a lot of them are..... Identifying The Issues with Current Advice for Stress Management They sound reasonable at first… Continue reading Moving Towards A More Practical Stress Management Pt 1
My players make interesting choices. Often I love them for it. Its a fun surprise to see what they come up with. But, sometimes, I am simply, truly, amazingly baffled by their in game decisions. Recently, they used some powerful and risky spell craft to "fix" a problem* I confronted them with. And the immediate… Continue reading The Day My Party Didn’t Punch The Moon (and possibly a daemon) with A Giant Robot
