Seems I have some catching up to do and a few things to report. October has always been my favorite month for a number of reasons, and so far this one has definitely been a good one.
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First off, Jenny and I really enjoyed our weekend trip up to Cunningham Falls State Park with some of our camping buddies (including a few new ones). Most outdoor camping accommodations at state parks are much the same nowadays, but we enjoyed our little set up. There was actually a small troop of Boy Scouts staying in the same campground site as us, and it definitely took my back to my own scouting days, as I constantly put those skills into practice all throughout the trip.

We started the weekend off right with Burgers a la Campfire

Me activating my Wand of Golden Marshmallows

In the morning Jenny made us all a batch of “Cowboy Coffee“

In the afternoon we took a leisurely hike up to the actual Cunningham Falls…

Cunningham Falls – though with the recent low rainfall there wasn’t much “falling”…
Of course, Saturday evening/Sunday morning it decided to start raining fairly persistently, but we had the foresight to strike parts of camp the night before so in the morning we packed up, albeit in the rain, rather painlessly all things considered. It’s why you go camping in the first place, right… to rough it..?
Anyway…
Jenny and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary on the 10th, and we had a nice dinner at one of our regular local haunts, the Baltimore fixture Valentino’s Restaurant. Their Smith Island Cake was a particularly nice surprise to sample. I also celebrated my birthday a few days later, and was quite touched with all the kind outreach I received from friends new and old, both local and afar. I am blessed to know a ton of very cool people. And the dry-aged rib-eye Jenny picked up from Cerillo’s (the same place that catered our wedding actually) for my birthday dinner was downright epic…
Also, while I failed to actually meet up with Wimsaur when he was in town visiting, I did manage to complete the feedback he’d requested concerning a new occult manuscript he’d recently finished writing. He first introduced a select few of us to some of these ideas in a little talk he gave at his home back in April (before he moved away to lovely Colorado) but that occurred when this site was down and I seemly forgot to write about that little occult gathering when it came back up a month ago and I was trying to recap the highlights of the previous five months before. An oversight to be sure, but more the better, I guess, considering the material he shared I’m sworn to secrecy about anyway (at least until he publishes). But now that he has a manuscript, that hopefully won’t be for too much longer.
I had my fair share of constructive criticism for him, but I think what he’s put together is a real accomplishment, though as I’m really not sure it’s even cool to discuss the title (let alone the subject matter) of the work, it’ll just have to all stay his secret for now. I did offer to help him with some of the graphics he was having trouble with in certain places, and it’s sounding like he’ll be taking me up on that.
I also heard by way of The Friend that the Baltimore Friends of IONS (Institute of Noetic Science) will be moving their location from Reisterstown down to somewhere (pretty sweet) in the city (though not yet officially announced). Regardless, their new proximity means Jenny and I can more easily attend their events. The Friend also suggested she introduce me to the IONS program coordinator as they have expressed some interest in me coming to give one of my magick lectures there. Naturally, I’m quite interested, but as I kinda still owe the Theosophical Society at least one more talk, I really gotta put any new focus (within that particular arena) into that first.
But, I’ve had other things on the brain of late. Mainly Blackspire…
And on that front… after long agonizing over it, I finally finished the write-up of my recap of the Blackspire Campaign up to this point… and while my personal bias as GM certainly shows here and there, I feel I was fair and honest with my interpretation of events, so to speak… I also took my fair share of artist and poetic license all over the place, added nuance in some places, cut the details that didn’t pertain later to the plot at some point (or add texture to the world), and even consolidated a number of events over multiple sessions into single entries. I tried to find a nice balance between summarizing events and detailing campaign flavor.

Thursday 10/19/17-
Sun: Libra-
Moon: Scorpio (New)
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