Packing up for tomorrow and I realize I have all the essentials in my bag: - Charging cords for macbook and phone - bluetooth mouse - planner & pens - Current paperback (NCIS Los Angeles at the moment) - tarot deck - bag of dice

The players are finally out of the Shadow Realm in our Sunday #Dragonlance campaign and we can move back into the War of the Lance. AND, they did it without a fight. Well, without a second fight. They did *try* to fight their way out at first. There might have also been some talk of turning […]

GM Tip: Silence is a powerful tool. After describing a scene or asking a question, wait. Players often come up with their best ideas in the pauses. #ttrpg #dnd #rpg #ttrpgCommunity

Looking for some more World of Darkness content? Session 0 of our upcoming Hunter the Reckoning limited series is up on YouTube right now! Go check it out before we go live on October 1st at 7PM Pacific! youtu.be/clOqZi7JJMY #hunterthereckoning #worldofdarkness #dorktales

Okay, took yesterday off. Still not 100%. But, 75% is better than the 30% I was at the last two days. On tap for today. Making it a "slow" day: - Make beanie donation for my niece's charity drive - Catch up on work emails/slack/etc. - process Jira tickets - usual round of meetings (only 6 […]

I'm awake. I had 3.5 hours of sleep. I still have a migraine. And I dreamt the man in the white house showed up on my doorstep. ... How many sick days do I have left.?

Been jumping back into #secondlife a lot this last couple of weeks. I've been out of it for about 5 years, ever since moving to Product. But, I'm trying to force myself to take time to do the things I used to enjoy before getting caught in the "always working" mode. Cleaning up my inventory […]

We're about to jump back into the Victorian Age with Mage the Ascension tonight on www.twitch.tv/dorktales at 7PM Pacific! #magetheascension #dorktales #actualplayrpg

Spent the evening brainstorming ideas for resurrecting a 1-on-1 play-by-post fandom game I used to write with a friend. Feeling energized for the first time in weeks, if not months.

I've been rewatching NCIS Los Angeles and I've come to realize tv criminals are really dumb. Numerous times they ask the team "who are you" as if they really expect an answer. But, either they believe the team is dumb, dumb enough to actually give a potential enemy their name; or they just […]

Not sure how to tag this one, but hoping someone out there knows. I have a quote in my head. Pretty sure it's from a movie or TV show. I can almost hear the woman's voice in my head speaking it, but can't place who or where it's from. Something along the lines of: "Time for another round of […]

Program Mngr: When you talk to CS/Marketing make sure they understand their issues will not delay this deployment. We won't be fixing issues and delaying the date. Also Program Mngr: We don't need a return to legacy site link. If something's broken, we fix it. Me: 🤔

Me: We need to talk to this team to see what the effort is to do this thing before we go live in January. Program Manager: That's really just a nice to have. We don't need it when we go live. Don't we have an existing, if outdated, piece we can use? Me: Well, yeah, but it's not built for this […]

Ugh. It's been getting warmer for a few days, but having to be in the office for most of this week and then being home today, it feels like it's just all of a sudden went from 80 to 98 overnight. 🥵 I know this is normal for August, but man this heat sucks. And we've got air quality warnings […]

GM Tip: Ask your players what their plans are at the end of each session. It helps you know what spend time preparing, while still giving the players agency to make their own decisions and follow their own path. #ttrpg #dnd #ttrpgCommunity

A common power of witches was the ability to summon former boyfriends back to them. Mind you, this only changed their location - not their attitude. #germany #folktale #folklore #witch #witchcraft @germany @folklore https://www.patreon.com/posts/dodgy-love-48650837

You know, it's stories like this one that reaffirm my lack of faith in humanity on general principle. Man struck by 3 hit-and-runs in Los Angeles dies on way to hospital, all suspects at large | KTLA […]

Prepping for my 1-on-1 worth the new SVP tomorrow. One of the questions is "What is the single most important thing that you want me to know about you?" I know it's supposed to be about work. But, I really just want to say my laptop case says it all: books, vintage aesthetics, and ttrpgs. LOL

You've read the tales, now get the books! #germany #folktale #folklore #book https://sunkencastles.com/the-books/

Shared this with my #DnD group last night. My #finchapp self care pet even likes gaming! LOL

I think I spend a good 25% of my work time telling AI I don't need it to summarize things for me. Gemini, Slack, Jira, everything has a "helpful" AI that wants you to know it can do your thinking for you. All. The. Time.

On the subject of that last boost... There are some days I wonder if my old VP was setting me up to fail. Not intentionally. But, yeah. I fell into Product Management. I was a tech writer & a Product Manager quit because they didn't want to commute to DTLA when we moved offices. The director […]

Prepping for tonight's Dragonlance session today. When last we saw our intrepid heroes, they were stuck in the Shadow Realm and captured by mysterious elves of the black desert before being taken to a dark arena. Stripped of everything but the literal clothes on their back and shoved into a […]

Friday night plans: - Dinner with Mum - Watch #TheBlackCauldron to celebrate it's 40th anniversary yesterday - Try on the clothes I just ordered for an office micro-wardrobe - Test the new make-up I bought for that, too Honestly, the only good thing about having to go into the office for a […]

Hey all! About to go live over on www.twitch.tv/dorktales with my Worldbuilding Wednesday stream! Come hang out, chat, and let's get creative!

🤦 https://ktla.com/news/california/giant-tesla-diner-movie-screen-erected-in-front-of-apartment-balconies-in-hollywood/

🥺 ✌️ https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ozzy-osbourne-dies-at-76/

Every D&D character should have hobbies. The eras we base the game off included holidays and time not working at rates likely larger than today. Characters should play games, partake in sports, do things that had familial value but not economic value.

Hmm...interesting. Haven't played #7thsea since the early playtesting days when it was run at a con I attended, but it's one I've wanted to get back to and I love #studioagate 's work. https://www.chaosium.com/blogchaosium-announces-studio-agate-as-the-new-developer-for-7th-sea/

Today was a really good day. Haven't been able to say that in a long time. - Had our regular salon appointment. Tried a darker green that's closer to what I want than last time. - Boss hosted a lunch for the local team members. Got to see coworkers & their families I haven't seen in awhile. - […]

Tonight at 7PM Pacific on www.twitch.tv/dorktales we're back with ColdIron and one of the weirdest episode names ever: The Great Egg Heist! Join us for some rootin' & shootin', and maybe an omelet if we're lucky. #dnd #dorktales #ttrpg #dnd5e #actualplay #rpg

My usual long shot sort of request: Will anybody from #Espoo or #Helsinki, who is going to #Ropecon in a couple of weeks, be able to either give me a ride in their car, or accompany me on public transit so I can get all my stuff to the flea market on Friday […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Thinking that instead of doing work after dinner, I'm going to sit down and start working out the side quest for the play-by-post I want to set up for our paladin while the player is out of the country this summer. Since we're coming up to the part of the module that is like the Insight carrier […]

Hey fang friends: reminder that there's no Vampire the Transylvania Chronicles because the ST needs a night off to deal with things in the (bleh) real world. To make it up to you, here's the schedule through August!

Huh. Maybe the universe is talking to me. Not long after I posted that last post, I got a ping from a recruiter on LinkedIn for a position here in my city, still in Product, hybrid (which I'm amenable to if it's located in this city, since I can walk anywhere in the city in 45 minutes and I […]

Starting to get really frustrated with the lack of clear communication & expectations at work. I come from a writing background. I'm pretty sure I know what most words mean in context. But, it seems like more and more I'm getting asked to provide a yacht, but the definition they use of yacht is […]

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `Many of the very ancient monuments of #Ireland, some more than five thousand years old, like the Hill of Tara in Meath, Lough Gur in Limerick and Carrowkeel are associated with the summer solstice.` #Celtic Source […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Yep. This is my life lately: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/114821058991978313

Tonight's encouragement from the #finchcare app

😳 Via Brad Moss: The mask is off. Christian fanaticism is here. I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/politics/irs-churches-politics-endorse-candidates.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Welcome to the military state: https://apnews.com/article/california-immigration-raid-troops-military-2d81f5c35f9d11db9e32234e03480497 "The operation in the large park about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of downtown LA included 17 Humvees, four tactical vehicles, two ambulances and the armed soldiers […]

Happy 80th Birthday to the beautiful, amazing,and talented Deborah Harry! The Tide Is High, but we’re holding on!

I keep coming back to this quote from Robert the Bruce in Braveheart lately: "History is written by those that have hanged heroes." Not the most historically accurate piece itself, unfortunately, but the quote is still apropos.

I should have gone into engineering instead of product. I can *talk* to engineers! DAYS talking with engineers around marketing, sales, creative, etc. & nobody makes sense or understands the issue. 5 MINUTES with the engineering manager one on one & we're perfectly clear on the same page, ready […]

A good #Dragonlance session last night: - Set the PCs off to return to Kalaman. - Let them fight a couple Ahnkolox (non-souped up versions this time). - And then stranded them in the Shadow Realm after they went through a gate to rescue the Kalaman sailors that were supposed to take them back […]

*flexes fingers* Game prep night. We haven't played in 3 weeks due to various health issues (mostly mine). I need to invent things to postpone the last chapter of the module because we have a player taking an extended vacation and I am NOT running the final chapter without her, even if we ARE […]

So, let me get this straight. A California senator started to ask questions the DHS Secretary didn't want to answer and was *forceably removed* from the press conference? A press conference about DHS activity in the state he represents, about his constituents being disappeared […]

Tonight's quote #finchapp :one_ring: #tolkien #thehobbit

[US Politics] So, tonight is the Kennedy Center fundraiser performance of Les Mis that himself plans to attend. I don't even have words to describe the disparity in his apparent "love" of the show and the actual *meaning* of a show that is, at it's core, about students protesting against the […]

#rip #brianwilson The Beach Boys were one of my earliest introductions to Rock and Roll and surf music. My brother and I both always preferred them to the Beatles (blasphemous as most people around us find that! LOL).