Games

Yesterday the LoTR RPG narrator's screen arrived and I've started translating. Since then I've made about €50 - which is not bad. I did a bit yesterday and a bit today. By tomorrow I should be done and have some extra spending money (Last time I worked for the company they paid pretty quickly).

I made some appropriately dedicated noises towards the guy who gave me the job. So, hopefully more quickies like this will come my way. I wouldn't mind translating for Call of Cthulhu. I like translating books that have fringe benefits like interesting subject matter.

Also suddenly realized with a start that it's already March and that I have to get off my butt and do some organizing for my small role-playing convention to be held in August (a small affair for 100 people). And that there's a con in Braunschweig this month, where I should make an appearance and do the loyal thing for my publishers i.e. offer a role-gaming session.

Plus my flight needs to be booked. My booking agency just told me that I can't leave on the 15th July but have to take the 16th - but that makes my stay shorter. Ack. Now I'll try the 14th. Maybe the upcoming war will make flights cheaper? Jeez flying is expensive!

I also have to tidy up. Somewhere in that two yard radius clutter around my computer (to which I am glued like a Siamese twin) are forms that need to be filled in, so I can pay for Tina's cheerleading practice. *Shuffels papers and curses*

The movie last night was good, btw. Good fun. Dunno what it's called in English, but Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock make a good romantic comedy.

Tonight we're boardgaming. That's always cool. Germans have the best boardgames in the whole wide world. Seriously. I'm not talking about strategic games where you have hundreds of counters representing tanks and troops, I'm talking about games like Settlers of Catan where you hava a variable map to build roads and villages and cities on, harvesting corn, wood, ore and bricks to build these things. That is not to say that there aren't good games by other people. Sid Sackson's games are good. Some of Alan Moon's games are nice. But in Germany we have a big thriving market...

Dear god, I just counted more than 70 boardgames on our shelf, the Catan-Games not included (there are several variants). And then we have about 20-30 different card games. And I haven't counted the games for the kids yet. I never realized we have so many! Ho boy...
And there are a number of games I'd really like to have... Oopsie.

Info about my writing...

I've been asked by several people when they can expect new chapters and/or sequels to my stories. It's lovely to know that people are eager to read more. It's a pressure I relish.
Today RL had me in its clutches, all day in fact, but maybe I can spend an hour or two on my fanfic rather than the translation.

Currently on my plate:

A big hefty chunk of Things Present - Things Past - the next chapter is 2/3rds done. Marcee needs to look at it before I can press on.

Perdition Catch my Soul - I wrote a long Xander/Willow convo, but then I got stuck. Then I got unstuck and then stuck again. Darn. I have to be careful not to lose my focus.

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie - Spike/Anya smut set during 'Sleeper' - Spike is not cooperating but Anya is very insistent. The dialogue is written, the build-up is there, but... stuck.

And then there are three S/X standalone fics languishing in development hell, with a few paragraphs written already, but pushed aside to make way for more important stories.

And there's my Faith story... Abandoned... Or maybe not.

I'm busy, I swear. Sorry, I can't promise any updates for this week though.