Café de Nuit

My workplace was about to undergo renovation just as I joined. This meant a lot of drilling noises and hammering, as well as plastic sheeting over everything. However, it also meant the construction guys put a bit of tape over the Men's room deadbolt, meaning that you no longer needed to use the com...

Tell me about it. Another documented side effect of the contraceptive medication: zero libido.

Technically, it's not INCOMPATIBLE with the drug's stated aim...

: sigh :

I took LomboDot to dinner last night and the screaming child at the adjacent table caused her to completely lose her composure. A brief but surprisingly intense exchange occurred, and we were quickly relocated at a table far away. Coincidentally enough, this extreme emotional irritability was caused...

The odd thing is, in this scenario, it's the thirtysomething male who's thinking about "ever after", rather than the twentysomething female. Although I will say in my defense that I'm not thinking about it particularly urgently. More like an interesting thought exercise. In other news, a s...

On Farewells LomboDot's visa is about to expire, and the primary legal routes to her continued stay in the US are either finding a job or finding a husband. On the job front, she's been applying to manY different prospects, but none of them are particularly well suited to her. On the husband front,...

Forcing a Two-Front War The Falkovnians have Nartok, through a combination of surprise, treachery, and PsyOps to reduce native hostility with the public investigation against the Eternal Order and the King. But strategically, they can't move out of Nartok. The Creeping Death will make short work of...

Further update: I hadn't quite realized it, but this story has fascinating potential for underlining the "four great inventions" associated with Chinese history. Gunpowder is the great military force equalizer, putting peasant on an equal footing with knights. The printing press is the gre...

I have the following language groups: Baloch: Barovia, Gundarak, Intradevar (Invidia) Vaasi: Nova Vaasa, Hazlan, Kartakass Darkonian: Darkon Paradel ("noble tongue"): Marésotes (Dementlieu), Cosabel (Mordent), Praquadie (Richemulot), Borca Trecht: Falkovnian (low), Nortenmark (Lamordia) Dv...

I rejigged the GC a few times. I'm currently running an "Azalin's apocalypse" style campaign and I'm seriously divided as to whether to use the GC adventures are written at all. There were certain problems I had with the adventures, but this was how I (sort of) worked around them: 1. Level...

On gossip and how to stop it Nikki, one of our Chinese clerks, likes to joke around with mildly flirtatious humor. "Hey Bing, what are you doing for Valentine's Day? Anything with a special someone ? ;) ;)" "Hey, Bing, it's Tracy's birthday, write something in her card. Just make sur...

Interesting, so it takes the theme of "carrying your own torment within you" and applying it even to religion. I like this interpretation - flavors of Frazier's Golden Bough and moral relativism, with a decent helping of anthropology.

Decades ago, a priest named Loquitur ("the speaker") volunteered to be immured so he could act as a go-between for the realms of the living and the dead. His sacrifice was supposed to put an end to the uprisings of the dead. However, the undead are still occasionally active, and the nation...

Depending on context, the saddest, most understated two words:

"I tried." (The Usual Suspects)

Men dressing up as women?

I thoroughly disapprove and I shall have none of this nonsense and grotesque frippery, GOOD DAY TO YOU SIR.

"Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer." Javik - Mass Effect 3