It’s been a busy two days. On Friday I had my ethics classes, and also had to squeeze in a meeting for photography standards with Standards Australia. I gave my report on the ISO meeting I attended back in February in Tokyo. We have another new project manager… we seem to go through those at a rate of two or three a year lately.
In the evening we played the second session of the online Pathfinder game that one of my friends is running. Picking up from the first session, we continued exploring the old Nana’s cottage, and ran into a ratfolk alchemist (a new player) exploring the cellar for ingredients. We also found a hand drawn map, but not much else, and left to explore the dark forest a bit more. We found a large plant with a translucent pod that seemed to be holding a human-shaped creature inside. After coming up with a plan we attacked it and cut open the pod to release the young boyfriend of the woman who had urged us to find him, much to her relief.
Back at the village, we explored a mysterious greenhouse where an old elf seemed to be semi-comatose in a strange way, but didn’t get to the bottom of that. Then we decided to follow Nana’s map, which indicated a place in the forest to the north that was labelled with the name of a god of undead. And there we found an underground complex which we began exploring. All this took up the session and we plan to pick up there next time.
Today I picked up the groceries in the morning, then I had an ethics class, held over from yesterday because it clashed with the standards meeting. And then I went for a 5k run, showered and changed, and worked on new Darths & Droids comics in the afternoon. My wife and I took Scully on a long walk, taking a ball thrower so Scully could do some ball chasing.
The roadworks outside our place continue. They’re remodelling and realigning a considerable section of the footpaths and guttering, and I think they rerouted a stormwater drain. So they’re doing a lot of stuff, other than just installing a pedestrian crossing. Access to our driveway is difficult, and when I went to get the groceries I had to dodge construction machinery that they had to move out of the way so that I could squeeze past.
One annoying thing is they removed the old footpath and relaid a new concrete footpath leading up the side of our place, where we walk a lot. And when it rained yesterday there was a large puddle, about 2 centimetres deep, in a place where there never used to be puddles before. So they screwed up the drainage. I also saw them hacking away at part of our property’s garden, destroying plants in beds along the footpath, as they were removing the old path.
I guess they needed to do some Pathfinding…