My game ran!!! A billion hours of dreaming and working(not really... more like 200 hours) and 3 hours of set up and it ran. 96 campers and 50+ staff living out something that I've been dreaming up for months was pretty mind boggling. The kids seemed to like it a lot, and the staff had a blast. Jed hit kids with a foam sword while halucinating that balloon animals were taking over the world, Ronnie wore a pink polo shirt and "forgot" how to play golf.... code breaking, card playing, knife t... read more

whoa. I resurfaced. Momentarily. I just played an epic game of capture the flag and then several epic games of smee. I also can finally move my arm again! (back story is interesting, suffice it to say that I can now reduce the joint by tying it to a weight and waiting until the muscles fail)

And Catherine is here and it's great! And we've been running around in OCircus shirts and tackling people. Uh... talking to the outside world doesn't work so much, but so much love, and I can't wai... read more

I just talked to my big brother about his urge to drink away 2008 on new years and watch cartoons. sometimes... it is abundantly clear why we are not only related but extremely close friends. I miss him. I haven't missed anyone in a long time. I want to come home and hug you all, but I'm simultaneously having an amazing time here. ::sigh:: I wish he'd visit.... Also hearing about his girl troubles and urges to go out and be spontaneous is hilarious... because I think he tends to think ... read more

I learned how to keep my sanity making huge Excel Data sets while I was in college. Listen to excellently geeky music (songs about the Mandelbrot Set, DNA, Conjunction Usage, Evolution, Pi, and NMR Spectroscopy all work.) ::grins:: now I'm pumping out nearly 10 lines of data a minute and going to get to spin this evening after all!

"Take a point called Z in the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
If the series o... read more