I've decided as mentioned to try a notebook approach to organizing. Which I've done a few times before, generally successfully. I had already bought holders for index cards to fit in a regular notebook. Then I dug back into my office supplies stuff as I was pretty sure that was where I put the paper protectors as well. Which is when I discovered I already had note card holders for those smaller notebooks! Yes, I do love office supplies for some reason. And I have a LOT of those baseball card protectors. Which, if you cut an index card in half, make convenient NPC character card holders as well.
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Going with the regular sized notebook as that is what I normally print things to, but now I can use that smaller notebook as well.
I went back and started writing down the NPCs but realized I've misplaced a few notes somewhere. But I started and will get more done this week. We are meeting this next Saturday at the moment, but between the storm barreling down on us, and my child (at 25 no longer a child but age does not change that) flies back home Saturday to Minneapolis. Thinking that the time to drop him off at the airport should allow me to get back in time as the game is at my house. And of course, my wife and the mother of said child may take him to the airport. Just not sure how things are going to go for a few reasons. Which is one of the things I won't go into here.
Anyway, hoping to find the rest of the notes as I had a bunch of the ship crew names written down. I do need to perhaps use the full-size cards for more important NPCs, but this is, as always, a work in progress.
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NPCs!
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And about finished with Gervase the Ettin from the Caves Archon Kickstarter. It has been a fun paint, and now to put him someplace safe and someplace I can find him later!
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close enough for done!
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| he does have two chickens hanging off his belt. |
I do have the Traveller project up and perhaps will do something more with it a bit later. Sadly, I feel I am losing interest in it again. That may be due to spending 8 hours a day writing the same sort of thing for work. Just did some major refactoring after a review from our consultant, though it was mostly an AI overview and suggestions. Most were valid, but some missed the larger context. Software is both simple and complex, and the applications does a few things in parallel which requires thread-safe operations. Which the AI complained about and suggested the "traditional" way. However - that way will break the application. I know - that was my original approach. But there was this import jo that was taking 2+ hours to read in an Excel file for a data import. I moved a lot of the DB actions to run in parallel with limits so I don't do a DOS attack on our own server (which, yes, I have done before. Lesson learned!) It now runs in less than 15 minutes. Part of that was running in parallel, another part I actually moved the process to run on the server in the background. Fun stuff, but the AI missed that larger context of how I am using those repositories that access the DB. In the end, I've been hearing for decades how "technology A" is going to replace developers. Like flying cars and fusion power plants, one of those things that is always 5 years in the future for a few decades. Then is suddenly here. Paradigm shifts happen when they happen. This is a good book that explains that:
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
2 comments:
Office supplies rock!
They really do! Feel I must have been an office manager in a previous life. I was as excited by the fantasy trip folders almost as much as the actual game. Those are really handy as they do have chunks of the rules in them
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