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[personal profile] canyonwalker commented on my most recent post with the following:

I'm curious about the dice reward system you've mentioned several times recently. Are you talking about actual dice, like the kind used in tabletop RPGs? What kind of dice do you like, and how does the reward system work?


...and then I accidentally wrote my whole day's worth of words in response. It turns out I am REALLY EXCITED TO BABBLE ABOUT DICE. Probably this fact is not surprising to people who've been haunting my journal since 2004 (how do I not have a tag for this?) but I'm always happy to squee more!

Here we go:

***

I am talking actual dice! I like RPGs well enough, but my true love has always been the clicky-clacky polyhedral math rocks and over my lifetime I have acquired...more than most people. I'm no Seanan McGuire (who obtained an old Library card catalog to store and sort her own collection) but I'm no slouch either.

(The link above is some photos showing the ~600 dice I have in sets or otherwise with some sort of "special" factor to them. Not pictured is the ~300 loose random dice that aren't in sets, which I use for various math teacher purposes and pretend not to notice when my students steal one or two.)

I like all dice, but my preference is for plastic over metal or wood. I have a few metal sets and they're nice enough -and the weight is great- but I am always more worried that they'll scratch each other up if I store them in bags and I don't have an interest in getting heaps of fancy storage boxes. My preference is for ALL THE COLOURS, but you'll notice a distinct bias for greens and oranges (which matches up with my colour bias for, uh, everything else I own!).

I've found that I'm picky about inclusions in my dice --I appreciate that lots of dicemakers want to put lots of cute things into their dice, but I find the effect most often falls flat. I still own a handful1, but I've been trying to be _very_ selective about which additional ones I purchase since I don't like being disappointed. The dice are just usually too distorted to clearly figure out what's supposed to be inside.

(Speaking of Seanan McGuire though, I *do* have a set of Evergreen Burrow's Scrollie Rollies with fragments of a copy of the book Middlegame embedded in the resin. Those are absolutely *not* a disappointment, they are _gorgeous_.)

My go-to companies are Foam Brain Games (bigger dice company that does some originals and lots of outsourcing, their convention displays are *so* delightful to peruse), Ice Cream Dice (small company with food inspired dice that is so candy-bright and delicious to look at!) and Dead Eye Dice (small company I found on Etsy with totally handmade sets). I'm not exclusive though --my spreadsheet2 includes 14 different companies (and it's not complete, I'll probably find another four or five companies when I next update!)

***

As for the reward system, I bought one of Black Oak Workshop's Advent-ure Calendars last year. I didn't actually have anything in particular to count down to, so it languished for a couple months until I figured out that I could use it as an incentive for Getting Things Done. I was already keeping my Dailies list (a group of about twenty things I should do every, or at least most, day(s)) so it was easy enough to just consider opening one door of the calendar as a reward for hitting 15/20. 75% is a healthier (and more attainable!) goal than 100%.)

I've managed to earn a die about 40% of days since implementing this system, which maybe means my threshold is still a little too high, or maybe just means I really do need to push myself a little more to Get Things Done. Many of my dailies are things that could be done in 10 minutes or less, I just need to...make myself fit it into the rest of the day!

What I have managed to do is not buy any more dice since starting the system...sortof. I actually have four still-sealed packages in my room, each holding 3-6 sets of dice from a different company, which will allow me3 to restock the calendar once I've opened all the doors. Given a 40% rate, it might take me all year to open and have those other pretties, but I've been considering ToDo list methods that could earn me a second die for each day.

***

Part of me wants to end this post with some kind of defense of the money and space I've spent here, but nope! Not doing it. The money would be a lot if you looked at it all at once, but I've been collecting dice since I was twelve, and the amounts and kinds I buy are commensurate with my disposable income. Own Pretty Things That Make You Happy --as Ms. Kondo would say, my dice spark joy, and therefore are a good part of my life!

~Sor
MOOP!

1: And if I were writing this comment at home instead of during free time at work I'd be diving into my dicebags to photograph more examples...

2: What? Obviously I have a spreadsheet. I love spreadsheets almost as much as I love dice, and it's a nice way to keep organized about All This.

3: Well...technically I'll have someone else load it for me. It's just more fun if I don't know exactly what I'm going to get (and because I ordered some mystery sets from some of the companies, there really will be some complete surprises for me!)
sorcyress: A character from a comic about the maintenance workers of the universe, holding a thumbs up and saying "MOOP!" (Zonker-MOOP!)
Green Arrow!
(I told him I was taking the photo for my mom, and he replied with "Tell her Happy Mother's Day!" When I did, mom replied with this text: "BEST Mother's Day greeting EVAHR!!!". I think I am the best child this year, even if I am a week early.)

Last year on Free Comic Book Day, I was in California. There's nothing wrong with this in and of itself, but it did mean I couldn't go to ALL THE COMIC SHOPS. This year I was happily home in Somerville, and I traveled only about five miles round trip which meant I got to hit up four separate comic shops (and I forgot about Newbury Comics completely, though I heard they were out by the time I was adventuring).

Furthermore, this was the first year I've ever been even remotely employed for Free Comic Book Day. I wisely set myself a spending limit of NO MORE than ten dollars per store, packed a sandwich and a folder to put comics in and my bike stuff, and went on my merry way.

It proved to be a very satisfying haul indeed. Photos, more words, and lots of links under cut. )

After I was done terrorizing the local comic book shops, I headed over to Artisan's Asylum, to sample a small taste of Somerville Open Studios. I spent some time chatting with Sparr, and lots of time wandering around and looking at beautiful art that I could never in a million years afford (and okay, some really gorgeous stuff that maybe someday I can afford too).

Rambling and links! )

Anyways, it was an awesome day, and tomorrow I will likely engage in Skype-cleaning adventures with [personal profile] tricia868 hopefully interspersed with further Open Studios Adventures.

It's looking to be a pretty great weekend.

~Sor
MOOP!

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This is further Balticon con-reporting. Also, if you haven't bothered to click on the cut from my last entry, it's probably worth it. Slutty but Sweet and all that.

Part One

Tweets are still in italics )

And this last tweet has nothing to do with Balticon at all:

23 days. Twenty three days, two hours five minutes. Oh my god. This is suddenly actually Real.

It is. It is absolutely positively real. And it is also 21 days 23 hours and 51 minutes.

~Sor
MOOP!
sorcyress: A character from a comic about the maintenance workers of the universe, holding a thumbs up and saying "MOOP!" (Zonker-MOOP!)
So, it's free comic books day! To celebrate, I hit up three different comic shops, and wound up walking out with a total of eighteen free comics, the first issue of Ellis's Ignition City, and this:



liesguhvinonkl fdjhgpebklmfpsm

SO HAPPY I HAVE BEEN RENDERED INCOHERENT!

Dear Million Year Picnic. You have all my love forever.

~Sor
MOOP!

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sorcyress: Drawing of me as a pirate, standing in front of the Boston Citgo sign (Default)
THOUGHTS WHILE PACKING:

1548:

Man, my folder of worship is getting *awesomely* full. One Comedity print, original art by Randy Milholland, Randall Munroe, and Jeph Jacques, a random commision of a dinosaur I bought at AnimeBoston, Hiro's milk mustache ad, the picture of me that Dominik used as a print for his portfolio, and my still alive index cards.

And that's not counting the Maryland folder of worship which contains an obscene amount of KattersArt, and my original sluggy art.

(For reference, the folder of worship is basically full of everything that goes on the wall of worship. So, not real posters, but Other Cool Things. I should put the ST article I ripped out of a magazine in there too.)


1557: Dude, that's James Bond? What the hell is James Bond music doing in my iTun...ohyeah. Thanks Talia!

1636: Unrelatedly to anything (I'm fine today, just a little stressed out) I find it really interesting that, one of the things I do when I'm trying really hard not to start crying in public, is to begin seeing how much of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy I can recite.

Granted, this somehow backfires as I originally began to learn hitchhikers as a self-masochistic way to illustrate the 2718.89 miles between me and my clone, and if I think too hard about that I'll be depressed, but still, just as a "shit shit I need to distract myself from everything in real life" it works like a charm.

1925: ...Ohyeah, I was working on this. Well, I mean, Ria was all "doof?" and dhs was all "I'll bribe you to come to Diesel with the offer of giving back your clothes" and so I went and got dinner with Ria and Mando (who recently dyed his hair BLUE and so now looks not unlike a character of mine) and then went to Diesel where I stayed for like...an hour or something. On the wicked plus side, I was finally properly/formally introduced to [livejournal.com profile] sunspiral, which is exciting. *adds him as a friend*

Now all I need to do is properly meet Cthulia and I'll be able to officially consider myself a Boston based fen.

2137: Did I really just spend the last two hours reorganizing my friends lists, again? Fuck. Me.

2224: You know what I want to know? I want to know how long it would've taken me to meet and become friends with Janny without the sluggy.net link. I think the only other person on my friends list who I could say pretty confidentally that I would meet without however I met them having happened is dan4th. And maybe very vaguely possibly Magus, but only insomuch I would've started to meet him at Balticon '06 rather than Origins '04

I'm attempting to clean out my gmail inbox, ie, archiving everything I'm done with. I had 1209 messages from 2008 sitting in my inbox waiting to be archived and about 4500 overall, I am *hilariously* bad at this, and not just because of the several hundred comment threads of doom I'm ignoring with mek.

OH! And I might be going to GenCon this year!! Mom's going, and if I can get the time off from wherever I will be working, there was an implication of me being able to booth babe for Joan. :D!

2237: So, something Tristan asked me right when we found out we were both virgos1 was "So what's your neurosis?" I can't remember exactly what I answered --almost certainly my default compulsion, the fact that I clean my glasses overly often, and every single time I ever get into a conversation about OCD or neuroses. *speaking of which, cleans 'em now. Sigh*

But I think my current big one is the neck thing. I hate hate HATE having my neck touched, it freaks me out. Occasionally, I'll just freak out about the fact that I have a neck for no good damn reason which pisses me off, especially when I get the "ohgodohgod, need to have nothing near my neck, RIGHT NOW" Necklaces and collars I can take off. T-shirts are harder. Skin is impossible.

I was idly thinking about this, and about the fact that, when doing the cuddling/petting/caressing fan situation that I seem to find myself in a lot, if someone gets their hands too close to my neck, I will invariably move their hands down.

At some point, I am going to inadvertently move their hands down to far and accidentally cause someone to grope me. Stupid fucking neuroses.

2301: Oh, bitches!! So, I'm looking at my class schedule, and the creative writing class I really wanted to take because hey --Sorcy likes creative writing!-- takes place on Thursdays. From 6:45 to 9:15 PM.

Yeah, when is Concord based contra again? What's that? Exactly that time? What the fuck Belanie. What the fuck.

(So now I have to decide if I'm going to try and find another class to take instead or if I'm just going to not start doing contra up here until next January --I suspect one of the deciding factors in which I choose will be how much contra I get in over the summer.

Still though. Bitches.

0019: QUOTE OF THE DAY:

JoshZed:
this is more of the strong evidence that I'm really a 1 on the Kinsey scale
or close to it
I mean, if Randall doesn't do it for me, who will?

(Good lord, has the concept of sexing up Randall Munroe become a *theme* in my livejournal? That's either terrifying or awesome.)

Also, I am amused that I started this as 'thoughts while packing' and haven't actually packed anything in seven hours or so.

0101:

NEW Quote of the Day!

"Do I want to know why you are interested in my lovelife?"
"Because human interactions of all sort fascinate me."
"Any sort of interaction is fascinating if it involves cherry-flavored lube!"
[Immediate follow-up comment] "...........I did not just type that.........."

0112:

OHMYGOD.

Does the world love me? I don't actually know. But the world might!

But...not being at movie night.

But Satanic motherfucking Mechanics!

Ohhhh, I should not be forced to have decisions like this...

0222: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Sor? Fuck you. Go do your paper. Like...now. Just because you know damn well you're not going to be sleeping tonight is no reason to not get the paper done early.

P.S: What is your plan, to sleep on the floor or something eventually? You're incredibly fucking stupid, I hope you're aware of that. Also, a week of sleep-dep? What makes you think you'll even be able to potentially *begin* to make it to Rocky? Yeah, that's what I thought. Tell your terminal optimism to fuck off.

Allfornow

~Sor
MOOP!

1: heh, I almost wrote that as 'virgins'. Oops.
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Hay-ol-ee SHIT! Becky is the most amazing person in the entire freaking world.

You will not guess what she made me for Christmas. And it is awesome.

~Sor
MOOP!
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Sorcyress has been drawing lately.

...Wow.

I think I can honestly say that thats the first time I've ever beenn good enough to refer to myself as 'sorcyress' I NEVER do that, even though I am.

Woo!!

Sorry. Anyway, I've been drawing a lot lately, and because you happen to have the (mis)fortune of being on my friends list, I'm going to point you over to the alls of them.

So here goes:

CMRAR! The CMRAR are for protecting my Big Orange Notebook of Doom, amoung other things. They will protect here, too
Broken Dreams. This one was drawn after MOOP! was blown up. I believe thats all I need to say about it.
Jakob. Jake is a Kilt-wearing bastard! I love him, he's a great charecter.
The Lounge. As in, where Gabe, Al, Hyde, and Zaph live. And me. It's a great picture. Spiral Staircases suck.
Cara. Another charecter, and a fairly recent picture of her. I haven't drawn her in a looooong while.
Kitty Crawford! Drawn for Aren. It's on construction paper, hence the funny colour.
Kawa. Just a sketch of a charecter.
Mogul the Rogul! ...er...No. No explanation.
And a close up on Moguls head
Random Chick

These next four are pages from a comicy/graphic novel thing I wrote back in ninth grade. I never had any more story then this, which makes it an ideal unfinished project. I'll get there eventually.
Page One
Page Two
Page Three
Page Four

Also, Aly, my younger sister, asked me to put this up and see what comments it gleaned. She's very proud of it, so if you're only going to look at one picture, look at this one, and leave your praise. I'll make sure it gets to the kid.
Stranger the Ranger

So, thats all for now. Ta!

~Sor
MOOP!

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The people-riffic meme!

Rules are:
First, write down the names of twenty people you know. Then read and answer the questions.

You can't look at the questions (or click on the cut) until you write down the twenty names you're going to use.


That sounds fun...and perfectly acceptable for my first post in who knows how Godly long.

I know. I admit it. I'm weak. LJ has called to me, and I must answer it. I'm back.

Right right right. On with the names!

1) [livejournal.com profile] artemisfowl2nd
2) [livejournal.com profile] muzikmaker21
3) [livejournal.com profile] macaroniandtuna
4) [livejournal.com profile] werewulf
5) [livejournal.com profile] quadrophenic86
6) [livejournal.com profile] sonsashi
7) [livejournal.com profile] jannyblue
8) [livejournal.com profile] drama_angel3189
9) [livejournal.com profile] kugelblitz
10) [livejournal.com profile] ednoria
11) [livejournal.com profile] heptadecagram
12) [livejournal.com profile] firespell89
13) [livejournal.com profile] haveasuperday
14) [livejournal.com profile] sonotsupercool
15) [livejournal.com profile] boredmder
16) [livejournal.com profile] shadowcaptain
17) [livejournal.com profile] sildar
18) [livejournal.com profile] gaeanangel
19) [livejournal.com profile] ayleedragon
20) [livejournal.com profile] astaereth

Don't read this until you have YOUR list ready!! )

Alright, back to general life.

I've only got internet on teh weekends. But thats ok.

Still not going to touch the webcomics. Not yet. Not until I have full, legal acess to Dmitri again.

*sigh* I miss 'em.

Other stuff:

*I went garage saleing yesterday. I picked up a pair of clunky black leather boots, a translucent plastic chair (I'm going to paint it) a beanie-baby penguin (for a dollar...remember when you couldn't find beanie babys for less then 6 or 7 a pop?) which I promptly named Ms. Hecubus, a purse, and a camera bag. It ruled.

*I also went to the aquarium yesterday with Zily (Lily and Zoe), and a couple of friends of theres, David and Leah. It was very cool, especially the skates, and the fish I befriended. He was a very cool fish, all neon-striped and whatnot. We had a long conversation, turns out he's a total theatre boy, and a bit of a drama-queen. He said he was also quite gay, which made me smile.

It was Jonny!!!!! in fish form. :D

*Me and Veronica went for a walk today, with Rex. It rocked.

*Played Halo with Shan and Mike Royster and Veronica. also fun, although, like usual, I got my butt kicked.

*This morning I finally caught up and saw EpIII. I liked it, although I found Anikin INCREDIBLY whiny. CHEER UP! I don't see what all those girls see in him. :p

*I think thats all...ego-boost writing will commence shortly.

~Sorceress

MOOP!

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Happy 2K5 everyone!!

The party rocked. My camera is somewhere in the house, but I don't know where. Yeah. I'm writing this on Nathen's computer (Nathen rocks!!) and the spacebar refuses to work.

Happy New Year.

Not much news besides the fact that the party rocked, Fish likes his nDGGD gift, Speaker got me the Making Fiends DVD, and Nathen is cool.

~Sorceress

MOOP!
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WARNING: Nail Hammers are made to drive or withdraw common nails. Any other use is hazardous. Always wear saftey goggles. Bystanders shall also wear safety goggles.

Thats word for word off my hammer. Amusing? Highly.

~Sorceress/Kat

MOOP!

Original Tags: cloneconvo, quotes, silly
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I cleaned my room.

No I didn't.

I moved stuff around in my room.

See, this is what I do a lot, move stuff around, usually with a little bit of cleaning thrown in.

The difference is that things that you have cleaned don't have to be cleaned again unless you do something with them.

Things that have been moved around eventually have to be cleaned. Otherwise, it just doesn't work.

I cleaned up most of my papers though. This means that the stack of papers I needed to sort is no longer level with my desk.

Ok, so it never really was level with my desk, but it was about 18 inches high, and it bugged me.

But the papers have been cleaned up.

I also cleaned up my Happy Flowers. They are in the beautiful basket I got at Renee's wedding for being a flower child, along with some tissue paper flowers as well.

Everything else just got moved around.

Cleaning Up. )

~Sorceress/Kat

MOOP!

Original Tags: cleaning, cloneconvo
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ORIGINS::::::::::::

Was orgasmic, as it should be.

Wow. Now theres an adjictive I don't use often. >.<

Anyway, Origins was as absolutely utterly amazing as it could possibly be, and I love it with all my heart and more.

It is my homeplace, where I am myself. It is not considered completely odd to go galloping down the hallways banging coconut halves together. It is not considered in bad form to shout ALL HAIL KING TORG in response to the lovely 9th level games people. It is not considered (extreemly) blasphemous to suddenly get down on your knees and start playing a game of Satan!...It's just awesome. I love Origins SO MUCH!!!

OVERVEIW: )

~Sorceress/Kat

MOOP!


*Labbit = Mad Lab Rabbit = Someone who works for Loony Labs

**The lab is where Loony Labs hangs out and do most of their tournements, seminars, and demos. Very awesome place, and where I spend most of my time. Especially when it's time to hunt werewolves!

(*3)Generi's = my affectionate nickname for the cute little generic tokens they had.

(*4)Flub. A word I litterally just made up as I was writing this. It means most magnificent, wonderful, amazing, fantabulous, fun, loud, creative, entergetic, quirky, great, awesome, stupendeous, terrific, and a whole lot of other adjectives. And cool. Except it really means BEYOND cool.

(*5)When it's not being addicts anyway...more on this later.

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15 things you probably didn't know about me. )

~Sorceress/Kat

MOOP!

Original Tags: games, cloneconvo, games-rpg, sexuality, memage-random facts, theatre, selfchat, meta, memage, wyo, girl scouts, games-m:tg
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THANK YOU JANNY!!!!!!!!!!!*Hugs*

I got my Elfquest figures from Janny and they are so awesomely cool looking and I love them and THANK YOU!!

*gives Janny two magic cookies*

I shall report on DisneyWorld at a later date.

~Sorceress

MOOP!

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