Rain

It's been raining so hard, it looks like an aquarium out there. One of life's true pleasures is to go out in simply miserable rain, then to come back inside and get dry and warm. It teaches you to appreciate the little things, like freedom from the elements.

Hackmaster: A New Record!

I played my first game of Hackmaster in a long time yesterday. It may have been the first game I've played as a PC. I managed to set a personal record: I managed to lose a character without making a single die roll. My character didn't attempt a single thing that required a roll during her entire brief life.

By the way, I put at least five hours of labour in to character creation.

American Medicine

Thank god America doesn't have universal healthcare, otherwise we'd have to face long lines, which is far worse than dying because you don't have any insurance. Imagine living in a country where a woman dies because she was ignored as she lay on the hospital floor for an hour. Oh, wait, we do live in that country (unless you're reading this from a country that isn't the US). The hospital promises that they'll work to reduce the waiting time to a mere ten hours.