RedHillian: A journal

Briefly, what are the key differences between DnD Third Edition, and 3.5?

Hey. Is anyone is the Manchester area planning to go and see Reel Big Fish at the Academy on the 22nd January?

freddiefraggles is thinking about going, and wonders if anyone else is going.

Hello. I am back, from Berlin.

It was cold, I didn't crash the truck and I'm glad I don't have to sleep in it again.

Berlin itself was nice - and I'm now thinking about going back there on holiday as I liked the city. I have seen some wall, Checkpoint Charlie (and the amusingly named nearby food outlet "Snackpoint Charlie") and may bits of interesting that I wish to further investigate.

I have decided that truck driving is not the career for me, and I'm not at ease driving a vehicle as big as that, mainly because it's just so damm unwieldy. I'm glad I tried it though, and glad had the chance to try it.

Tomorrow I have to take it back to the ASETS workshop and empty it (half the load was dropped off at a supplier in Herefordshire on the way home), then I take it back to the rental yard and wave goodbye to it.

But first, I sleep.

I've been out for many years - over twelve by my reckoning, but today I will restate this. I am bisexual.

All over the place, including here in my own friends list there are people who are struggling with telling the truth to their own friends and families. It's difficult. It's always difficult, and it's always going to be.

So today, spare a thought for those people who're scared that they'll be shunned. Scared that people they know will think less of them. Too nervous to tell those close to them how they actually feel. Those are the sorts of issues that people feel, and I hope that by declaring my support for them they'll know that they're not alone, and at some point they might be ale to make their own declaration.

Today, several people I know made a declaration to friends & family to show that they were not hiding themselves, and they have my support.

You don't have to be 'LGB', as I knew it when I came out. Neither do you have to be T, Q, I nor A. Even if you're straight and happy with it you can stand shoulder to shoulder with us and be an ally and a friend.

Today is coming out day, and I'm coming out.

Further to various bits of publicity and sitting on plinths, the One & Other project is looking towards its' final day & hour now - on Wednesday 14th October the final plinther will ascend in the little green basket at 8am, and an hour later will descend, to leave the plinth itself unoccupied. Less than two and a half thousand people will have been on top of it, including various support and technical staff, the artist and a protester.

I plan to be in Trafalgar Square between 8 and 9am to applaud the last person to take the ride in the JCB, wearing my plinthers' t-shirt (which uncharacteristically for me, is white). If you can be about for Wednesday morning at a fairly sociable time, then why don't you come and join me? Beh' will be there as well, plans for his t-shirt are progressing well...

Today's my 6th wedding anniversary, and I'm still as totally in love in as soppy a way as I was at 11am on the 30th September, 2003.

Right - those of you who're Londoners or thereabouts.

Who's likely to be up and about at 4 to 5 in the morning on a Monday?

I will be. This Monday coming (28th), in Trafalgar Square, on the Fourth Plinth.

Bring teddy bears, bring snacks. I'll bring the stories.

I'd like to see you there.

It's a Maelstrom weekend - I'll see you whenever/wherever, I'll be in a field. Then I'll be at PLASA09

At the weekend, I went to the stag do of Gareth Hayes, Esq.

( Whilst there: something happened )

In other news, I need a full face mask for when I get airsofting again.