beanside | The gnashing teeth and criminal tounges conspire against the odds

It's D-Day! My alarm went off bright and early at 5am, and I bounced out of bed to grab my coffee. I've got the morning all plotted out. I've got til 6:10 to do my thing, then I need to wash out my travel coffee mug, because I'm going to need that. Then, get dressed and be ready to go by 6:30. If I get it right, I'll be at the office half an hour early, and will hopefully get a good parking spot.

I swear, the moment after I hit disconnect on Discord last night, all the anxiety that I'd been ignoring jumped up and started bouncing around yelling "Pick me!" I managed to get to sleep through the marvels of modern chemistry, but it sort of sucked for the two hours before I got to sleep.

I got to pull a Rusty Quill special during our game last night. While surrounded by green hags, my red dragonborn decided to cast fireball, centered on himself. Since he's a dragonborn, he was going to take half damage, even if he failed the save (which he totally did). The hags on the other hand, took full damage. Even with my hit points dropping to twenty five, it was 100% worth it for the 31 points of damage I dropped on them. And since it worked pretty well, I'll 100% do it again.

In addition to that game, we played another in the morning, which was awesome. After that, we went to see Dad, and then we went to pick up groceries. Jess went in and saw Dad, while I waited in the car. I'll go see him tonight. I'm not quite sure how we're going to work things with me working this week, and games from Wed-Friday, but we'll figure it out.

Looks like I missed a few days of these, so, in no particular order, four things I like.

Sparkling water: I am a huge fan of any kind of unflavored fizzy water. It just makes me happy

Natural History Museums: Dinosaur bones and shark dioramas? Yes please!

T. Kingfisher/Ursula Vernon's books: I haven't read her horror novels, though I've been told that they're very good, but her non-horror books are fucking amazing. Nettle and Bone was one of my favoirte books I've read in the last couple years. She writes compelling, practical heroines, who don't end up carrying the idiot ball much if at all.

My Bed: We got a Hesstun mattress while I was still with IKEA, and I love it. It's soft and has just enough firmness that I can get out of bed in the morning, but I don't really want to.

Okay, time for me to get dressed. Everyone have a wonderful Monday!