Table-tennis
April 16th 2003 -
Table-tennis
I did rather well today. I played against Farris, who hasn’t played in a while, and he was having a great deal of trouble returning serves in the first game, so I won 21-5. Since he’s much higher rated than me, that catapulted me up the TT charts. He started getting some form back by the second game, and I only won 21-19. We’ll see how we go tomorrow – no doubt I’ll have my head handed to me.
Squash
Doing well in squash always seems to result in doing well in table-tennis the next day, too. I played squash last night with the regular crowd, and did pretty well. I still can’t quite volley to my satisfaction, but at least I’m returning a higher percentage of serves than last week. My serve and fitness have been gradually improving too.
D&D
Got my second roleplaying session happening regularly on Wednesday nights now. It’s pretty interesting – much more traditional hack & slash than the Saturday night sessions, but there’s a bit more actual role-playing than I might have expected as well. Owen came up with an ingenious incentive scheme for writing journals on our progress – we’ve got the game up on a web-site and he publishes our progress (and potted character histories) up there. If we write journal entries for a day’s play, then we get dragon tokens, which we can redeem for once-off automatic-15 or automatic-20 dice rolls, or extra experience points.
What is particularly ingenious is that this scheme has managed to get me much more involved than I usually am in roleplaying activities, which in turn makes me realise how poorly I understand my own motivations for doing things. In any case, I’ve written a fairly extensive potted history of my character and weekly journals for both of our previous sessions, which is far more than I usually do even to GM a game. Kind of pathetic, really.
Holidays
Holidays after tomorrow. I’m taking the three days between easter and anzac day as a “writing holiday”, in which I hope to actually do some editing on Lotus. Hope springs eternal etc.