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Anyone out their attending ConquestNW this weekend?  If so stop by and say Hi.   I will be doing game demos for Neverwhen all weekend.

 
Location:  Tanis and Gibbitts house
3224 south 135th street
Tukwila, WA 98168 US
When: Wednesday, December 31, 8:00PM   
Phone: 206-261-6826
This year we are throwing a little new years gathering here at the house.  You are all invited.

Dustin
AKA Tanis
 

December 20^th we will be celebrating my Birthday and you are all invited.

 

When: December 20^th  9 pm

Where: Tanis and Gibbitt’s House

                3224 South 135^th street

                Tukwila Wa 98168

 

Hope to see you all there.

 

 -Dustin aka Tanis

Come and join us celebrating me getting a year older :)

December 22, 2007
Party Starts at 9pm.

3224 south 135th street
Tukwila, Wa 98168
Cell 206-261-6826


Hope to see you there.

HALLOWEEN PARTY!!!

 

Oct 27^th, 8 till late!!

 

My house!!  (3224 s 135^th st, Tukwila, wa  98168)

 

Costumed (or not.. costumes would be LOTS more fun though!)

 

Bring booze, munchies, whatever.. mostly, bring yourself.

 

Sorry for the late notice.  We at the house have been BUSY!

We are throwing a party for the release of Neverwhen.   Below are the detail, hope everyone can make it.

Dustin and Rhiannon's House
3224 South 135th Street, Tukwila, WA 98168 US
Saturday, September 15, 9:00PM
206-261-6826 

If you have any questions give me a shout at dustin.gross@dragondyne.com

The Neverwhen Hardbound books arrived today and they look great.   I can't wait to show them to everyone.

Last night around midnight my life was changed forever.

I am now part of the select group of people that have published a major role-playing game.

To be more specific my game Neverwhen went to press!!!!!


We are throwing a party Saturday for Neverwhen going to press. 

Hello Everyone,
I was just wondering who all out there are planning on attending June Fair this weekend?

I am starting to get nervous about the game launch. Still have lots of stuff to do for it and running out of time. <> Ok lets be honest I am nervous about the actual release. I have all kinds of doubts and questions running through my head. Such as will people like the game, did I miss any major mistakes in the rules, did I do everything right under the OGL..

I know I should relax, but it is going to be hard between now and Friday.

<> Hopefully it goes well.

As most of you know I have been working on a publishing an RPG for a few years now. Well it is ready to go. At Norwescon this year we will be starting pre-sales on the game. You are all invited to the launch party Friday night of the convention.

Well everyone Larry is finally getting hitched and Saturday (02/10/2007) is the night to get him numb for the occasion. We are meeting at my place at 8pm, and then once we have everyone together we are heading downtown to a little place called Tiki Bob's. I figure this is a good place to start the evening since it has strong drinks and women dancing on the bar. Anyone that knows Larry is welcome to join us. Let me know if you will be able to make it.

I just realized that in the three years that we have been working on Neverwhen, three people involved with it have passed away.

Year 1 Bear Brown (Suicide)
Year 2 Wes Weer (Cancer)
Year 3 Lars Mink (Suicide)

Like I said strange thought.

Stolen from sirriamnis by Ayeshadream. From whom I then stole it...


IF YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST,
I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don't. You are obviously on my list, so let me know with whom I am friends!
1.Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:

HERE COMES THE FUN ... ... ...

1. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
2. Whats your philosophy on life?
3. Would you have my back in a fight?
4. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
5. What is your favorite memory of us?
6. Would you give me a kidney?
7. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
8. Would you take care of me when I'm sick?
9. Can we get together and make a cake?
10. Have you heard any rumors of me lately?
11. Do you/have you talk(ed) crap about me?
12. Do you think I'm a good person?
13. Would you drive across country with me?
14. Do you think I'm attractive?
15. If you could change anything about me, would you?
16. What do you wear to sleep?
17. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out?
18. Would you go on a date with me if i asked you?
19. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
20. Will you repost this so i can fill it out for you?

Grr.. I know I shouldn't let it get to me...

All of my plans for the weekend fell through. I was really looking forward to getting some downtime this weekend since we are starting up on a few weeks of hell at work. Instead I got stuck at home with my housemate that is driving me insane. I know that people have stuff to do, but the timing sucks.

Oh well, I just needed to rant a bit.

I don't want to sound like I am fishing for sympathy, but at the moment an Okubo line comes to mind

"Suck it up and drive on"

Ok, that is my two cent vent.

Here are a few random thoughts / nuggets of wisdom. Not all of them are original but I like them anyway.

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Sanity is a state of mind and I definitely live out of state.

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Wiseman - Fortune smiles on fools and gentlemen.
Gentlemen - Ah but occasionally the fool gets lucky.

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Definition of bi-sexual: Means that you get turned down twice as often on Friday nights.

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When recovering from a head wound, do not spray your face with cologne (Thank you Errhead)

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Speaking of head wounds. When drunk do not get into a head butting contest with someone that has a forehead like a Klingon.

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Definition of Poly Relationships: When one partner gets to go out and play around while the other just gets to sit back and watch :)

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A pint cannot hold a quart Mr. Pizer. If it holds a pint it is doing the best it can -

V.I.N.CENT. (Vital Information Necessary CENTralized)
Black Hole (1979)

I figured I would post the lyrics here...

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Sleeping With The Television On Lyrics
by Billy Joel

I've been watching you waltz all night Diane
Nobody's found a way behind your defenses
They never notice the zap gun in your hand
Until you're pointing it and stunning their senses

All night long, all night long
You'll shoot 'em down because you're waiting for somebody good to come on
All night long, all night long
But you're sleeping with the television on

You say you're looking for someone solid here
You can't be bothered with those 'just for the night' boys
Tonight unless you take some kind of chances dear
Tomorrow morning you'll wake up with a white noise

All night long, all night long
You're only standing there 'cause somebody once did somebody wrong
All night long, all night long
But you'll be sleeping with the television on

You're eyes are saying talk to me, talk to me
But your attitude is "don't waste my time"
Your eyes are saying talk to me, talk to me
But you won't hear a word 'cause it just might be the same old line

This isn't really easy for me to say Diane
I know you don't need anybody's protection
I really wish I was less of a thinking man
And more a fool who's not afraid of rejection

All night long, all night long
I'll just be standing here 'cause I know I don't have the guts to come on
All night long, all night long
And I'll be sleeping with the television on

You're eyes are saying talk to me, talk to me
But my attitude is "boy, don't waste my time"
Your eyes are saying talk to me, talk to me
But I won't say a word 'cause it just might be somebody else's same old line

All night long, all night long
We're only standing here 'cause somebody might do somebody wrong
All night long, all night long
And we'll be sleeping with the television on
Sleeping with the television on
Sleeping with the television on

So I survived my first full SCA event in many many years (how many manys equals 16 years?) On the whole I had a great time. There where several positive and negative things. As always there are things that I wish had gone diffrently, but on the whole a very goodtime was had. Here are the high and low points.

Positive.
1) Got to spend most of the weekend with an old friend - Major Positive. BTW Thanks for putting up with me being a bit of a stray dragon this weekend :)

2) Got to get out and relax some - On a scale of 0-100 my stress level is probably down to around 160.

3) Got to watch a storm front move in for the straights. - God I miss living out on the water.

4) Got to meet some pretty cool new people.

5) I really enjoyed sitting around the fire listening to the bards. - I am not much of a singer, but it was loads of fun listening.

6) I think I actually got a sunburn, not really sure. My nose felt kind tingly for a couple of hours then started peeling. Everyone else I know that gets sunburns seems to hurt for a couple of days. Either way it was a neat sensation.

Negatives
1) Getting ignored by people - This one sucked and part of it maybe my own fault. I have been told that I have a tendency to blend at times, particularly in crowds of new people. On incident in particular stick in my mind, there where a bunch of us around the fire and one of the people I was camping with started passing around a bottle, telling everyone to have a taste. After the person on my right took a hit off the bottle, they turned looked at me, and then reach acrossed me to hand the bottle to the person on my left. I really hate it when people do that. Luckly I was mostly sober at this point, so I was able to just blow of the several times that it happened.

2) My poor feet - I was not prepared to do as much walking as I ended up doing. So I ended up with some fairly bad blisters on my feet. I have mostly recovered, but I am still not moving at full speed.

As you can tell from the list it was more positive then negative. I really had a very goodtime.

Ok first of this is not a drama call or a plea for help. On the contray it is just me actually letting off steam so I don't blow. Go figure :D

This week started off with me going through withdrawls from my anti-depressent medication (Forgot to pick it up). Which is all kinds of fun. It is like being constantly hung over and dumped all at the same time. Monday evening I finally got my prescription filled which made me feel better. Around Tuesday morning I started getting back up to medicinal levels and bam we get the phone call about Bear.

At first we are not sure what to think about it. Just as we are deciding to take it seriously we get the second message about Bear, that he has passed away. So here I am trying to wrap my head around this,and the fact that I am still annoyed with him for missing deadlines. We get everything wrapped up and head up to Sandie's which actually went as well as can be expected, but very exhausting.

We come home and I check out Bear's website, and find there is a link to his LJ. On a whim I click on the link and the last post he has in there involves me going off on him about missing a major deadline. Now that really makes me feel good, Not.

So with everything going on I kinda loose track of what is going on. Then low and behold this morning I remember what the date is September 3rd. Which is only significent due to two facts, one the fifth is my first girl friends birthday ( I always surprise her with a birthday email), and the fact that I have a 64 page project due on the 6th. So I figure I will do a little writing after Fridays game and then crash out.

Well I got the writting part done. As for the crashing out I have a major case of insomnia. So that is how this week ends with me getting ready for the wake on no sleep, frazzled, and still very much shell shocked from the week.

Like I said this is not an "oh look at poor me" post. This is a "get it out" post to help with healing process.

What is it that makes people not believe that I am serious about publishing my game? I would really like to know this. I am not sure what I can do to make it more obvious. I have invested quite a bit of time and money into Neverwhen and still everyone, even my friends, treat it as if I am just trying to live a pipe dream. GRRRRRR

Ok Now I Have that out of my system :)