cosmic and other stuff

I was supposed to wake up and have lunch with Drew and Martin, but they didn't call me or my phone didn't ring or something and Martin left town before I woke up. Bleh.

Unfortunately it also means I sort of woke up fairly late for getting over to Nykkel's house for board games and stuff. ("Me: I just woke up, so I dunno if I'll make it by 5." "Him: You have at least an hour and a half, what's the problem?" "Me: Gotta go check on all my shops in PP to make sure none of them have imploded. Stupid economy fluctuations." "Him: *rolls eyes*") And worse, I-5 was totally totally hosed from some football game or something. So I get to 80th and I-5 and think... hm.. maybe I should take another route.

It took me 45 mins to get there (usually takes 10-15 tops on I-5) using Lake City Way, because I kept making wrong turns. But I got there. Eventually. At like 6:20. They had just started a game of Cosmic, so I convinced them to restart since only 2 people had taken turns so far. So we did. It was looking to be a good game for a bit, at least for me, since I was Gorgon/Warpish, but a bunch of stuff happened, including Farren stealing my Warpish and DJ having to leave and whatnot that made it a sort of "who cares" game for a bunch of us. Infact, to be honest, I forget who won :)

We took a break halfway through to go for pizza, so by the end of the game it was a little after 10pm and Phaedrus had lost most of his brains, so he went home, Farren was tired so he went home, I had a headache so I hung out a few minutes to chat and then I went home too.

Odd thing is, I got home and still had a headache, so I curled up with Baseball's Forgotten Heroes, which I'm about halfway through, and fell asleep after reading another 40 pages or so, around 11:30pm. Got up at 6:30am and I haven't been able to get back to sleep. Sigh. We'll see how I last out the day.

Skellies on Olivia - another PP song parody

Oh yeah, they're having another song parody contest on PP. This one's got "stories of the Midnight Ocean" as its theme, but sadly I can't enter Onto the Boat since it already won a prize in Medira's contest even if it's the best work I'll ever write parody-wise. Arr. I'm still not entirely happy with this one, some lines could be better, but I think as Argonaut said, "it preserves the mood of the original song, and 'his saber is really a chainsaw' is priceless."

Skellies on Olivia!
(to the tune of "America" by Simon and Garfunkel)
(based on a true story)

"Let us be crewmates, we'll tally our fortunes together
I've got some poe to waste here in this bank."
So we bought up all the cannonballs, and rum that we could find,
And sailed off to head for Olivia

"Cherny," I said, as we boarded the cutter on Alpha,
"Luthien seems like a dream to me now,
It took me four days to sail here from Lagniappe,
And I've come to fight on Olivia."

Laughing at our shots
Playing tag with the brigands
He said the man with the Conquistador builds too high
I said, "Be careful, his saber is really a chainsaw."

"Trade me a map or two, I don't have something to wager."
"I memmed the ocean a few weeks ago."
So I looked for a bid or three, he walked around the green,
And the skellies hid near an open field

"Cherny, we've lost," I said, when we'd taken a beating,
"I'm insta'ed and stalling and waiting to die,"
Counting our poe and alerting our hearties,
"Need one more, to fight on Olivia...
One more to fight on Olivia..."