Delightful day!
Jun. 4th, 2008 03:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI love days like today, when I wake up inspired! Since it is ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clovis_t's birthday and he wanted a D&D adventure run for him, I woke up thinking of a potential situation/adventure I can offer his character. We've been much too busy to do any gaming for ages and ages (possibly a few years since I've run one for him!), but now I've got some good ideas. I also wok up thinking of things to write-up for the results section of my thesis. Gotta love a brain that can simultaneously devise list of non-player-characters and their environment to encounter in a game *and* devise an organizational system for an entire thesis chapter--& hold it all long enough to get up and mix up and knead some bread dough *before* settling down to the computer to type up the details of both.
After typing that all up, I got a lovely nap (I woke up inspired the first time a good several hours earlier than I should have!) and then baked a birthday cake (German Sweet Chocolate). Even the fact that there were some ISSUES with baking (I *hate* Australian ovens in rental houses--they are *not* big enough! It should be possible to put three cake pans in the oven on the same shelf at once, and it isn't!) like the cake rising up and spilling over the sides of the pan to drip onto the oven floor and burn (this has *never* happened with this recipe before, and I've been making it (rarely--it is quite rich) for over 20 years hasn't managed to diminish my good mood. Since the cake rose so much there were also issues with the cake plate--the glass dome is usually *just* tall enough for three layers. This time, it is actually touching the frosting on top. Oh well, he tells me it still tastes good! (I don't actually like the taste of chocolate, so I don't like the cake myself, but the coconuts-cashew frosting is yummy, and it is *his* birthday!)
Now I've got about an hour to go for a walk before heading out to dinner with his dad (his mum got sent out of town for work this week, so she's already given him a birthday phone call.)
clovis_t's birthday and he wanted a D&D adventure run for him, I woke up thinking of a potential situation/adventure I can offer his character. We've been much too busy to do any gaming for ages and ages (possibly a few years since I've run one for him!), but now I've got some good ideas. I also wok up thinking of things to write-up for the results section of my thesis. Gotta love a brain that can simultaneously devise list of non-player-characters and their environment to encounter in a game *and* devise an organizational system for an entire thesis chapter--& hold it all long enough to get up and mix up and knead some bread dough *before* settling down to the computer to type up the details of both.After typing that all up, I got a lovely nap (I woke up inspired the first time a good several hours earlier than I should have!) and then baked a birthday cake (German Sweet Chocolate). Even the fact that there were some ISSUES with baking (I *hate* Australian ovens in rental houses--they are *not* big enough! It should be possible to put three cake pans in the oven on the same shelf at once, and it isn't!) like the cake rising up and spilling over the sides of the pan to drip onto the oven floor and burn (this has *never* happened with this recipe before, and I've been making it (rarely--it is quite rich) for over 20 years hasn't managed to diminish my good mood. Since the cake rose so much there were also issues with the cake plate--the glass dome is usually *just* tall enough for three layers. This time, it is actually touching the frosting on top. Oh well, he tells me it still tastes good! (I don't actually like the taste of chocolate, so I don't like the cake myself, but the coconuts-cashew frosting is yummy, and it is *his* birthday!)
Now I've got about an hour to go for a walk before heading out to dinner with his dad (his mum got sent out of town for work this week, so she's already given him a birthday phone call.)
