Subject line and meme gakked from a locked post, else I'd give credit where credit is due.

In memory of Gary Gygax, who on my flist would I never have known if not for gaming?

aliwings, arcaedia, dracian, empress_schwa, garrity, head58, ivan23, kevin_mowery, kit_kindred, krf13, lintra, mekkasimian, porphyrin, space_mice, tryslora, wistling.

After some thought, this doesn't include those of you from the crazy old days of Forces of the Empire, since it was at least as much fandom as gaming. The list would be nearly twice as long if it did. It also leaves out at least one person I met in a gaming milieu first and reconnected with in fandom later on (waves at splash_the_cat).

And I'm only a social gamer.

ETA: Also of note? The list above is exactly 50/50 genderwise. :-)

Fango interview with Gina, complete with tantalizing hints of potential con appearances this summer.

Spill already, girlfriend! I gotta plan this stuff! %-}

Nothing makes you reconsider a self-judgment of All Better (Or Close Enough As Makes No Difference) like trying to sing for the first time in two weeks.

And starting with Puccini. Not that it's not where my voice is happy living these days, because it is. (I'm even used to that at this point, and no longer have a phantom pipsqueak coloratura living in my head.) But the support muscles are all like "Huh? What? We've been working overtime coughing and now you want us to hold that??"

Last night's lesson was ugh. Tonight's preliminary rehearsal for Suor Angelica was ugh-er. Hopefully I'll be a little closer to 100% by next Thursday, when parts will actually be assigned.

Not that Solange isn't well aware of my all-too-recent bout with The Crud, and assessing accordingly (and she's got it now, poor thing), but I would still like it GONE NOW PLEASE. I hate the getting-over-it-and-getting-back-in-shape phase almost more than the actual full-on sick. The panic phase where I start to forget what the voice is actually supposed to feel like. :-P

Off to bed to give the GONE all the help it can get. As soon as I watch the last third of the Project Runway finale...