Just marking the day.

[sarren]

I have spent my entire adult life avoiding gaming.

Today, Dragonfly and Bunny taught me to play Settlers.

Then we went to the Swancon bbq fundraiser, and hadn't been seated for more than ten minutes when _bigjobbies_ descended on us with a block game (like Tetris except with actual blocks and three dimensional).

The bbq was lovely, the weather was perfect and the people were, as always, awesome. I even remembered to invite my best mate and her family along.

I've buggered up my knee again chasing small children around. I'm really going to not do exercisey type stuff that puts any kind of stress on it. So, does anybody actually, seriously, swim for exercise? I really want to know how you manage to not give up out of the boredome of it.

Most significantly - I appear to have made all sorts of rash promises about attending gaming events and inviting people over to my house to play.

Comments

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

I used to swim for exercise. It was a great of settling the brain into creative stuff and/or studying. Swimming helped me work problems out and draw related bits of information together. I prepared half my essays in the pool. Maybe that's why I'm not as clever now. Cycling almost has a similar effect, but you have to spend too much time avoiding things to really get that mindspace.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

You think???

I can't hold that much info in my brain to write an essay. Maybe I can try plotting fic instead :)