Utah: Day One

Today was our first day in Utah. We have not yet hit the slopes, but we rented skis and visited Alta and Snowbird, which both look fantastic. There are a few things that make Utah a little...different.

A six-pack of Polygamy Porter? Ah, multiply refreshing.
The supermarket sells Dry Ice for 60 cents a pound. Crazy.
And then, the just interesting things, like my brother:

Me: Man, there's a new Transformers movie coming out!
Brother: Yeah, and Optimus Prime transforms into a fondue pot.

Somethings I'll never understand.

A ski update later.

Me, update? Nah...

These are getting more and more sporadic, both because I'm neither writing nor running an RP right now, and because up until Tuesday, I was in the death throes of fall semester. But now, I am prepared for greatness.

That's right. I'm leaving this podunk East Coast to go to Utah, for skiing!
It'll be ridiculous. A week of skiing in better conditions than I could imagine in the East.

Oh man. So good.

In the meanwhile, I'm looking for a good project to carry into next semester. I'm stuck about it, and want ideas. Hmmm...give me ideas. I like writing, and just so you know, by project I imply something to write. Just throw ideas out there. Because of course so many people read this...ah well.

The penultimate Driving Mix

1. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
2. Deep Purple - Highway Star
3. Asian Dub Foundation - Fortress Europe
4. Rob Zombie - Superbeast
5. Clutch - Pure Rock Fury
6. Mad Caddies - Shaving Your Life
7. Dog Fashion Disco - Moonlight City Drive
8. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
9. The Dead Kennedys - Winnebago Warrior
10. Deep Purple - Speed King

Indeed.

Writer's Block like whoa

So I had some cool ideas for a campaign...and they were cool. And they're still written down somewhere. But my desire to actually flesh them out is dwindling. I've been trying to figure out why I would actually have fun in this world, and reasons are escaping me. I'm just too reality-oriented right now. That, and thanks to Luther, I want to go back to Cyberpunk in some way. His campaign is crazy, and I finally feel like I'm playing a character with some depth.
I think in my next campaign, I want to return to GURPS, but make it a setting that's unique enough to warrant not using Interlock. This will require some major thinking and idea treading, but I think I can do it, given enough time. My last setting was interesting, but the setting itself was not that inherently creative, it merely had some flourishes to make it seem individual. It may be a good idea to play up the tech aspect of this world I have in planning...it still could be great, I'm just stuck at a high level of top-down writing, where I'm not doing the meaty stuff I really like.

Also, I go home on Wednesday. All I can think of is downhill skiing and driving El Celica (Celica comes from Spanish roots, look it up, you philistine). Very narrowminded right now.

Last week of the semester means CRAZY

I'm having my sanity sucked from me by repeatedly taking exams and projects and other things.
I have a great campaign setting I want to write, but I'm going to wait until break to wax irreparable on it. In the meanwhile, for integer values of n, a is the integral of f(x) times the cosine of n times pi times x over L. Ah, Fourier can bite me.