I'm free!

Well, that's that. I just finished my last obligation for school. No papers due, no final to take. Later this month, Tabor College of Hillsboro, KS will confer on me a Bachelor of Science in Christian Ministries. I'm even going to walk and everything. ("Everything" is stand, sit, walk, shake, and sing on command. Sounds like I just finished dog training school.)

So I am free to game. And build my son a swing/slide playset (appropriately equipped to act as a pirate ship, castle or spaceship, as the circumstances dictate). And paint the house. And landscape the backyard. And put in a privacy fence. And clean the garage. Sigh… did I think I had time to game? :)

I had planned to game this Sunday, until someone reminded me that Sunday is Mothers' Day. Oops. And circumstances dicatate that we can't get the group together until two weeks after. I'm anxious to play [[http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/dogs.html|Dogs in the Vineyard]] , and this delay is frustrating. Two more weeks, after more than two years of very little gaming, shouldn't be a big deal, but it's surprisingly frustrating. Probably because I was beyond having "hopes up" and into "certain I was gaming this weekend."

Oh, well. Maybe I can start character creation online instead of in person, if Chris can stay on top of his email. (He's not Internet-addicted like the rest of us.) Karen wants me to start a Dogs play-by-email game in addition to the live game, but I'm not sure I have time for that. We'll see.