As in snow. Drove over to Santa Cruz on Sunday morning, and therefore got a taste of snow here in the bay area as we crested the hill, complete with police escort. The trees were delightfully dusted with it, and the novelty of snow this close by made it very fun. For serious snow, I'm heading up to Tahoe this coming weekend where I'll be treated to no less than 60" of fresh powder. MmmmMMmMMMmmmmm....
The purpose of the trip to Santa Cruz was a meeting to further the LoftyOne project; things are moving along. Saturday night saw our most recent FoodFu. The event looked a bit in jeopardy, due to schedules, illnesses, and etc; in a flash of brilliance I re-christened the event as FoodFu Prepackaged/Premade (FoodFu Pre!), and the event was saved, and much tasty food from TJs shared, along with some local small-restaurant tastiness. A joyful lazy extended dinner, with meandering conversation and tied together with several teas. As a bonus, a former Wing Lam KFite was visiting and joined us, so it was an extended KF/FF family eve. Later, a few of us watched the film Ping Pong, amusingly kung fuish and an interesting journey into several themes of competition, satisfaction, happiness, friendship, et al. Also some rather great and understated graphics and effects to tie it all together.
Sunday night gaming was cool, as we were greeted with a pirate ship laid out on the map for the start of our adventure (we had purchased a ship the previous session). Our journey is an important one for my character, who's ties to his deity was severed (disappeared? Blocked? Something else?) and who is following the words of a fortune teller: "They will not be able to help you, but you must go see the Sisters of the Green Isles." We ended having left our bodies and entered the land of the dead -- we're not dead, but we could end up that way if we're not careful. This, by the way, is a surprise to us, we had no idea we'd end up there when we undertook this path, though warned by the Sisters it would be a dangerous one. A couple of weeks of Eberron are next, followed by two of my game before we return to continue this journey.
On the whole I've definitively taken on many things right now, so I'm quite the busy cat. Updates may be a bit more sporadic in the coming weeks, but I'm not abandoning the space of greater conversation. I'll still be here to post and to spur it on.