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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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Good thing I read your blog every time you link to it from here. I hadn't even heard of The Harrowed Hearts Club. Apparently, I live under a rock.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ. This is the last one for 2017. Happy holidays! See you all in 2018.

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Season's Greetings and Best Regards

celjabba

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Best wishes for the solstitial holidays, and for the new year!

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A good holiday season to you, Kromm, and everyone else.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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Nice! I'm glad there's a pointer to the Daily Illuminator articles for DFRPG.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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Three new GURPS projects? Sounds good!

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GURPS Fear

GURPS Surprise

GURPS Ruthless Efficiency

GURPS Fanatical Devotion To the Pope

I'll come in again.

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I would characterize them more as GURPS Shock, GURPS Pressure, and GURPS Elegant Decay.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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My friend named Suzanne would approve. :D

I look forward to the upcoming GURPS goodness.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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Thanks for the updates. When will we see your newest GURPS DF item, now that the art has been chosen?

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Reply hazy, but I think sometime in April. I hope. ;)

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Cool. Maybe it can be in time for my birthday (late April). :)

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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Is anyone interested in the krommnotes.org domain? Peter Dell'Orto originally used it to collect our topic host's rulings in the days before the advent of MOLOCH, and I'm no longer able to reliably sustain it long-term.

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I got a server with room to spare, if there is content to be hosted with low traffic. And no problem for handling the domain if the alternative is letting a piece of history go. But what I don't have is time for generating content for the site, so I imagine priority to anyone with a project !

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What's a MOLOCH?

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

Yes, a one-note week – but that meant I made progress on a project that hadn't received enough of my attention!

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The current FAQ keeper was credited as MOLOKH for some time.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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Good to hear about Steampunk getting a second book. A friend of mine loved the first, so now I have a gift idea. :)

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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Having moved house myself recently: best of luck, and may it all go as smoothly as possible.

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I did that in 2016. The packing was a nightmare. The unpacking was actually fairly quick; I think it was only a couple of weeks to get down to three boxes, which still aren't unpacked! I totally empathize, and I hope your move isn't as much of a pain as ours was.

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May your move go smoothly. It is one of life's seven traumas.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

And thanks for the kind wishes re: my move. Preparations so far have been expensive, time-consuming, sweaty, dusty, fatiguing, and the source of aches, bruises, and insomnia. However, I'm making progress. If the movers show up on time next week, I'll be able to deal with all the rest.

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Here's hoping the new home is comfortable and long-lasting.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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Thanks! It's shaping up. It will reach "comfortable" status when I've added, fixed, and organized a few more things. That's mostly a question of budgets, time and money – and more the former than the latter, really.

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But do you have the home bar unpacked?

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I haven't had a chance to do anything with it, but it's all set up. All 10' of it. Which illustrates that the charming old building has charming old floors. Long live flexible shelving! It may look slightly warped, but it hugs the contours without shims (rigid and shimmed, one end would be a couple of inches off the floor, on a stack of wood).

Oh, heck, here's a picture. The weird dip in the top shelf isn't warping; it happened in transit. That shelf could support another 600 lbs. (I can hang off it) . . . but good luck getting a bend out of steel shelving.

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That's pretty damned impressive. Do you have an order of magnitude estimate for how many bottles that setup is holding?

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There are a lot of half-empty and small bottles there, but depending on how you count, there are 200-250 bottles of actual beverages in my inventory. On one hand, that also includes somewhere over a dozen bottles of low-proof vermouth and amari that I keep in the fridge to avoid spoilage . . . but on the other hand, I have 30-something bottles of syrups, more than half sufficiently stable to stay out, so I'd put my estimate at 240-ish bottles visible in that photo. There are also 30-ish tiny bottles of bitters there, not counted in the above.

One friend, upon visiting, said, "Wow, you must be an alcoholic!" I pointed out that the fact that most of the bottles are on a shelf, not in me, indicates almost the opposite.

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I'm glad the unpacking is going well. May you be fully settled soon. :)

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You know, I grew up with an older generation many of whom were alcoholic, and in my young adulthood I tended to jump from "drinking alcohol" to "getting drunk" to "alcoholic" quickly. But when I saw your photo I didn't even think "alcoholic" till you mentioned the word, so I must have recovered over the course of my adult life. Instead I thought "Wow, that's a serious hobby, he has to have invested a lot in that" and "I guess that's the toolkit for Professional Skill: Bartender," and I was a bit amazed to think how many *different* mixed drinks could be made with that collection. And there wasn't even a detour through "No, that's Kromm"; I just didn't think of the alcoholic explanation, though of course I can't know if I would have with some random person's photo of the same thing.

But really, you're right, an alcoholic wouldn't leave the stuff in bottles. . . .

In fact, you know, what I found myself comparing it to was my library, which also is something of an investment, and also represents something of a serious hobby.

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Many bartending hobbyists actually use the term "library" for their collection! But in my case, that's other walls. Just the RPGs library is imposing. To first order, my new apartment is basically a place to arrange walls full of hobby materials.

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Thank you! I am fully unpacked and mostly settled. I have a few sins hidden away in closets and cupboards, but I think that's standard even for people who've been settled for years. :) The biggest task remaining is to face up to my Visa bill at the end of the month. I might take that opportunity to finally get around to mixing a cocktail.

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Ah, I wish I had space for that many RPGs. I've had to think my collection on the past couple of moves; now it's down to about six shelf feet (and some of that is C's copies of my published books). I used to have nearly twice that much. Our apartment is basically a space to hold bookshelves—though one set of shelves is entirely filled with DVDs.

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I sacrificed (close to eight shelf meters of) DVDs to move with my bar and games. I also opted to go with minimal furniture, which increases apparent space (don't let the photos deceive: this apartment isn't big) . . . and saves money. My strategy extends to no video devices (TV, DVD player, etc.) or consoles to hold them and their media – those would need a wall I don't have, in a room that would seem cramped if I put them there. When I'm financially viable again, I'll doubtless add one or two items to get junk off floors and out of closets, but even with the generosity of others, the move will limit my spending well into 2018Q3, probably 2018Q4, and conceivably 2019.

Fortunately, I'm not a TV watcher. My at-home hobbies are cooking and cocktails. And my major hobby is Argentine tango, which isn't something one does at home unless one happens to be wealthy enough to own a house (or huge apartment) with space for a studio and good sound system. That kind of wealth is alien to those in my line of work!

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Alcoholics tend to have one beverage of choice. When I see a setup like Kromm's, I think entertainer, and/or hobbyist.

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Our strategy's not quite so extreme as that. We do have 9 shelf feet of DVDs, as compared with 100 shelf feet of books (divided into fiction, gaming, general nonfiction, art and popular culture, cookbooks, and oversize, roughly). We own a television, but it hasn't had an antenna for years, and we don't have cable; it's connected to C's desktop and to a Blu-ray player, and it sits on her desk, next to the keyboard and the mouse.. Though these days a significant fraction of our video is streamed, and we mostly watch that on an iPad—smaller screen but better resolution.

But we spend a lot more time reading (physical or digital books) than we do watching. Many days have no video, and those that do typically have about an hour for one specific program. We have a large backlog of unwatched video.

And I certainly get the issues of tight budget!

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Yeah, I have to say, when I think "alcoholic," I tend to think of someone who has two or three bottles of a single product; stereotypically inexpensive (not being drunk for the taste) and probably at a high concentration, though I expect there are alcoholics with expensive tastes. But you don't need dozens or scores of different products if what you want is the ethanol.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

And as I write this, I'm finally sipping that cocktail I said I'd make. It only took three weeks to get around to it!

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What was the cocktail?

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A traditional, equal-parts boulvardier, made with bourbon (not rye), on a giant ice cube.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

Yes, that slacker Kromm is ending his day, week, and month early. Hey, it's Canada Day weekend and June was . . . well, a month of long days and no breaks as a result of moving.

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Enjoy the long weekend!

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As opposed to pneumonia, which leaves your lung weakened. That's not enjoyable at all.

I should probably quit with the coffee this morning.

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Loud groans. . . .

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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Ooooo - GURPS Hot Spots: Renaissance Venice. Must have. :)

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New entry posted in the GURPS thread of my LJ.

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Kromm, your avatar has changed.

Your previous avatar looked like a 1990s Ph.D. candidate, and your current avatar looks like an 18th century duellist scholar.

I just noticed in passing. This may not be a particularly recent change.

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Now I'm curious to see a higher-resolution/bigger version of it.