Current mood:	tired
Current music:	Taylor Swift - Our Song

Wednesday... Really...? Weird.
It started off well.  Despite a rather cantankerous sunburn, courtesy of a zoo remote I teched on Saturday, I spent the majority of Sunday and Monday laboriously trudging through my final preparations for Monday evening's launch.  It was a little tricky... the players have a bevy of custom rule material to adjust to, but they seemed to catch up quickly.  Happily, I don't think this particular group has ever been quite so prepared for their new characters.  Backstories were solid, with lots of hooks and quirks to be exploited.  And I even asked the group to arrange a sort of loose association, or at least a string of relationships that could be easy to pull together at the beginning of the campaign.  I don't typically do that, since it invariably saddles people with relationships that, once they get into the game, don't really make much sense.  (I once had a player who decided to invite a sporadically-involved compatriot to play his character's twin brother, only to be frustrated at every turn by the other PC's unrealistic behavior patterns that seemed strongly at odds with their common background elements.  Interestingly enough, one of these characters became one of our group's most beloved PCs ever, the other our most reviled.)   It seemed to work out really well this time, however.  I am inclined to conclude that this is a direct result of the players' dedicated efforts to develop initial characterization elements.  Of course, everything's subject to change... best-laid plans and all.  We have yet to get to know these characters, and I've already been surprised by a couple of turns.

It was a strong first session.

Yesterday, Darius Rucker was in studio... you might think of him as Hootie, of the Blowfish...  He's a country singer now.  And he smiles a lot.  Worked out well for me... I'm collecting autographed pics from former rockers who have gone country.  Jewel was getting a little lonely hanging on the wall of my cubicle.

Riverfest is this weekend.  Wichita Riverfest is, I'm sure, fairly comparable to the biggest annual festival in any sizeable community.  Unlike Dodge City Days, when I lived out west, however, Riverfest doesn't take over the entire city.  Just a small section of it.  Unfortunately, said province is just a few blocks from the house.  Lemme tell ya... that's a pain.  Traffic is hell.  On the upside, Channel 963 is bringing Colbie Caillet to town on Friday, so I'll be helping set up the show and get to hang out with the artist a little bit and stuff like that.  And she's cool.  Our syndicated morning show had her in studio yesterday for about half an hour.  And I must say... I wasn't particularly excited about Colbie Caillet (rhymes with 'ballet') before that, but her easy manner in the studio and the quality of her acoustic performance was more than enough to get my attention.  I think I want her CD now, and I'm really lookin' forward to the show.

So... busy Monday, busy Friday.  Wednesday seems a little surreal.