Now that almost everyone in Sweden is vaccinated and the restrictions have been lifted, I’m cramming in as many entertainments as possible into my calendar. So I had a really fun weekend!
- Had solid afternoon tea at the Warship Vasa Museum with friends and heard Jens Heimdahl speak about the paleobotany of excavated Early Modern gardens in Stockholm
- Saw music critic and humorist Fredrik Strage’s standup show
- Watched three good films at the Monsters of Film genre festival, about which more in a later entry
- Studied large Nordic mammals and historical buildings at Stockholm’s open-air museum Skansen — a lynx female was licking the cuddly belly of its kitten!
- Played Fiasco and No Thanks
Dear Reader, what did you do for fun over the weekend?
Aardvarchaeology - by Dr. Martin Rundkvist 
This weekend was pretty much full of anti-fun (some sorrow work for a friend who passed a while ago, but I only found out Friday evening; talking to the bank).
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The weekend before that saw the last session of the long-running GURPS campaign (pretty much spot-on 14 years, monthly sessions, the first session was October 13, 2007) with one of the PCs besting Emperor Hirohito in a duel at the Nezu shrine. The PC, wielding a rapier, and the Emperor a katana. With some help from the emperor, the PC wins, and the rather alternate WWII ended.
There’s still some wrap-up, like a debrief of what ACTUALLY happened and how the world worked (the PCs had pin-pointed at least three distinct “the history of the world changed in this narrow time interval”, maybe as many as five).
In a fw months, we’re set to run a parallel / prequel campaign, centering more on British India, and less on the European and Pacific theatres.
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Awesome! My Fantasy Venice players recently discovered that the tenants at the family salt extraction site have a secret cult to the River Goddess together with the savage toad people from the nearby swamp.
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