The computer store gig has devolved into filing several yards of paper; filing is one of those activities that uses a different portion of my brain than that which thinks. In fact, if I don't find some way to distract the thinking portion of my brain, it interferes with the activity of filing. I learned a while back that if I listed to either talk radio or a book on tape, my thinking brain is happily occupied, allowing my filing brain to get on with the job.

So, right now I'm "reading" "The Devil in the White City", by Erik Larsen. It chronicles the creation of the Columbian Exposition (the 1893 Chicago World's Fair), in parellel with the depredations of America's first serial killer, H.H. Holmes. Random House has a lovely site about it, and I found a good link from the Houston Chronicle with a review.

This book combines many of my interests. I enjoy the Victorian era, and Living Death (my favorite RPGA campaign to play) set a series of scenarios at the World's Fair. Listening to the book is helping it to come to life for me. In addition, I'm fascinated by true tales of crime, especially serial killers. It's a good read so far.

I again crashed on the couch for a couple of hours yesterday, heat on my sore knee, back, hip, etc., but finally managed to get myself upstairs and get in the revisions to the LF metagaming pack (and to get that out to people who were awaiting it). Tonight it's laundry, packing and prepping the Living Death scenarios I'm running at WiGE this weekend.

Ghaaaa... still horribly far behind on LF, but creeping forward, at least.