Informational meme.

[saxikath]

I meant to do this earlier, but it was Blank Verse Blog Week, and I didn't feel like trying to deal with it in that form. So:

How many times has someone on your friends list posted about something and you were really confused, but you didn't want to ask because you knew you SHOULD know? How many times have you felt guilty asking an LJ friend a question that should be obvious?

Well, here's your chance.

If you've missed a few things, missed an entry and are confused, ask me anything. Even something EXTREMELY basic, like where I live! I'm not allowed to get even slightly irritated at any of the questions - we've all missed things before.

(I do, however, reserve the right to answer by e-mail or in another more private form if I'm more comfortable with that.)

Comments

[icyhotla.livejournal.com]

Do you remember me? :)

[saxikath]

Of course. :)

[icyhotla.livejournal.com]

More than tens years have passed since we met. But I still remember you as though it were but yesterday.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

What's your current dating/relationship status and what would you like it to be?

[saxikath]

Single, as it has been for a long time. Generally I'm content with that, but I wouldn't mind something more, if the right person wandered into my life, or I discovered the right person was already in my life.

[blkdrgn.livejournal.com]

Totally unrelated, but I *love* that icon.

[dcltdw]

hear hear :)

[tmcay.livejournal.com]

Do the memberes of your family share your interest in games, role-playing, and puzzles, and do they ask questions in order to understand and appreciate your activities?

[saxikath]

My family share some interest in games and puzzles, though not so much the role-playing. I don't talk to them much about the role-playing; my mother used to have hesitations about my being in the SCA, and I can't imagine the LARPing would be much better. They know about it, but it's not something we discuss particularly. Occasionally they ask questions about the LARPing, and I answer as well as I can. I think they can appreciate it as a sort of improv theater, if nothing else.

But other games, yes. We played lots of board games when I was growing up, and things like charades too, especially when visiting my grandparents. My brother and I and neighborhood kids did lots of "let's pretend" games, too. Periodically, I teach them some game I've learned at NPL cons, and it usually goes over well.

Puzzles, too. I think of puzzles as something I at least started picking up from my mom. When I was in high school, I think, she used to get a xerox of the Sunday crossword so we could both do it. Both my parents joined the NPL after I became Enigma editor; neither's particularly active in solving, though my dad does try the crypts every month. I gave my mom the Cox & Rathvon guide to solving cryptics last year for Christmas. My brother loves Jumbles, and sometimes does other types of puzzles, too. I remember showing him one of the picture-puzzle specials in the Enigma, and he enjoyed that.

They do ask questions about what I do. And they gave me all kinds of good-natured ribbing when the NYT ran the con puzzle from last year on which I did so well. (I may never hear the end of that one!) I expect, if there ever is a Denver con (hint hint? :) ), at least one of my parents would want to stop by and see it. They respect it as "my world," and wouldn't want to intrude, but then again, I think they'd enjoy it, too.