What I’ve Been Up To Since Getting Back

Here’s what I’ve been doing lately:  Reading Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. I brought a copy with me to Canada, thinking I would have time to read on the plane, and here and there during the trip. Turns out traveling with a kid eats into one’s reading time severely. My copy (the Penguin edition of Robin Buss’s translation) of  is about 1200 pages long, and I only hit about page 150 by the end of the trip. (I’m just past 300 pages now, though, and briskly making my way beyond that. Working on edits for a novella we’ve translated. …

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Returns and Recoveries

So, I was in Canada with our son for about ten days from the end of July until early August. A lot happened, and it was nice to see my sisters and their families, who gave us a warm welcome, as well as my friend Ian (who drove up to Vancouver to see us). It was also nice to properly give our son a little experience of Canada. We did a lot of things: aside from family time, which was most of our time in Saskatoon,  we visited the Forestry Farm and did some shopping in Saskatoon, played mini-golf and …

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Readings, May/June 2026

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Readings 2026

May and June of 2026 were pretty good for reading! I we finished up some of those translations projects I mentioned last month, and though more have come in, with a lot more free time available I was able to finally do some serious reading! I remain stalled out on reading Sir Thomas Malory’s Complete Works (edited by Eugène Vinaver), which is funny since the RPG I was reading it for inspiration for has played out and ended. Even so, I’m trying to get back into it, one chunk at a time. In the meantime, below the cut I’ve only …

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Our Mythic Bastionland Wrap-Up: Behind the Scenes

This entry is part 25 of 25 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

If you’re just joining us, you’ll probably want to go back to the first post in this series. Otherwise, read on! This post contains an accumulated set of notes about what was going on behind the scenes during the campaign we’ve just wrapped up. I have no idea who, if anyone, will be interested in a behind-the scenes like this, but I took notes over the week following each session, mostly for my own benefit, and figured I might as well share them along with my writeups of each session’s events. 

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Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 22 and Epilogue

This entry is part 24 of 25 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

Here’s the play report for our twenty-second (and, for this campaign, final, or at least final-for-now) session of Mythic Bastionland, which we played this past Sunday night. If you’re just joining us, I’d recommend starting at the first session and reading forward from there. It’s all organized in a series, so it should be easy to find the posts that follow the first. This was a climactic final session, and I’m going to try do it justice below, as I’m writing this over the following couple of days. A lot happened (this is the longest post I’ve done so far in …

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