Downtime/away: Blame Shar

[Anastasia]

Hey Yuth, you holding up okay with the greater computer repair?

[Anastasia]

I'll be a few minutes late, just a long morning.

[Anastasia]

Winding down here, good session everyone.

[Anastasia]

So I'm finally having a good morning after the past week, ready to DM. The downside? I'm going to be an hour+ late as it is, I have to run out and do an errand. I'll try and minimize this, we'll see how it is when I get home.

The downsides to not being able to drive means you have to work on other people's schedules, unfortunately.

[Anastasia]

I'm here, just fighting against a netsplit and settling in. We'll begin in 5-10.

[Anastasia]

This time in the right topic.

A few notes about upcoming schedule interruptions.

1. I haven't taken a downtime/rest up day in some time. All of my misses have either been family obligations, unavoidable errands or doctor visits. As such a few days are on the agenda within the next several weeks. This won't be a full vacation, probably along the lines of a long weekend instead. If any particular days are good or bad for this for y'all, let me know.

1a. There's no game burnout behind this, purely RL stress. It's been a rough week+ for me behind the scenes. My posting's felt drained at times the last few sessions, which is a pretty good sign I need to recharge. Blame life being life.

2. My next vacation will be in September, probably something like September 5th to September 11th or 12th. It straddles a weekend in the middle due to it being the start of the NFL season. I usually like to focus on Week 1, so I may as well combine a vacation and not be distracted.

3. Speaking of football, here's the likely interruptions from the NFL season.

- Every Thursday from August 8th to August 29th has the Redskins playing that evening. It's preseason so no big deal, but expect a bit of distraction from that. These shouldn't be cancels barring maybe August 22nd.

- Thursdays in the regular season, which is from September 5th to essentially Christmas, have football on. This increases my distraction but isn't critical, but bear it in mind. This also applies to Mondays from September 9th onto Christmas.

- Evening session for September 23rd will be canceled, as the Redskins play on Monday Night Football.

- Evening session for October 24th will be canceled, as the Redskins play on Thursday Night Football.

[Anastasia]

Winding down, Neph.

[Anastasia]

We may have a small session interrupt tomorrow, just heads up. Not sure when.

[Ebiris]

Will be late today.

[Anastasia]

Ditto.

I'm guessing about an hour, hopefully less.

Some weeks, I swear. It's the same thing - I have to go help with something, turns out we forgot part of it last time. Whoops.

[Anastasia]

Life in 15 or so.

[Iron Dragoon]

Probably won't be around on the 19th. Day off work before my birthday, got things planned.

[Anastasia]

Taking Monday and Tuesday off as discussed.

[Anastasia]

Taking tomorrow off as well to be a DM work day, relax a little more and get all the backlog cleaned out.

[Anastasia]

I will be a few late.