I'm still playing.

It's hockey night tonight.  The regular season is winding down.  Our Bluenotes have clinched a playoff spot for the 40th time in their 50 year history.  The only team from the first expansion in 1967 not to have hoisted the Cup.  This is their year, touch wood.  (Not that I'm superstitious or anything.)  Still after a rough year plagued with stretches of bad play and injuries the Notes are currently tied with Dallas for first in the Central Division.  How badly have they suffered with the injured list?  As of today, they've lost 266 man-days to injury.  Through 75 games of an 82 game schedule an average of nearly 5 players, 25% of the roster. have missed every game.  St. Louis has not been able to bring their starting roster to the rink at all since the season opened on October 8th.

Yes, still ancient history, you still don't care, yada, yada, yada.  In order to write these, I need subject material.  No news, is not news, and nothing for me to write home about.  I will say that either through avoiding CNN, the use of an anti-depressant or both I seem to be on a much more even keel.  My doctor called me the most stable patient she has.  That makes me a wee bit concerned about the rest of her patients.  Stable is not a term I would necessarily use to describe myself.

I should be working on the Serenity game, I've got a cubic metric butt-ton to do before the next session;  Encounters to detail, an attack to plan and coordinate, an attack force to build, the good, bad and ugly NPC's to craft.  All that and at least one way out for the hapless PC's.   I make it sound like work.  Well, it is to a point, but it also a creative part of the hobby that I truly enjoy.  The more I can do now, the more I can help suspend disbelief for the players next Sunday.  The more they can suspend that disbelief, the better story we can tell.  When we collectively tell a good story we all win.

We're right in the middle of act II, leading right to the climax of the story.  The most the players can hope for is a draw.  I thought about calling it a "Wash," (reference).  Too soon?  I'll be hitting them with a moral dilemma.  They'll either be able to extract their revenge on their betrayer, or they'll be able to prevent the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians, Alliance citizens, and Federal employees.  Just not both.  Yep, those same people who have just squashed the Browncoat independence movement and are now trying to impose their will and control over the rest off  the 'Verse'.  Sometimes, I really dig my job...   

As always, it ain't much.  It's done, locked and loaded.  Thanks.

See you tomorrow.