I'm SO worn out lately... Just churning out these recruiting lessons for the White Rose over and over. :x

I've written and tested 6 out of 7. Of course, I won't take all the credit, Samarah has done plenty of work on her part as well. She's writing the scripted versions, I'm writing the notes versions. Sometimes our opinions on how lessons are arranged differ slightly; that means I have to do more writing to arrange it as I see fit.

I have never done so much work for a Dragonrealms organization in my LIFE until now. I bet you COLLEGE will be easier. *smirks* But I love what I'm doing because the Order needs the foundation of the recruiting program. Even if I or Samarah are gone, other people can take what we've written down and do good things with it.

Sure it's just a game. But... it's a GOOD game. And I'm even learning good teamwork, writing and editing skills. So it can't all be bad!

With my next bit of news, though, I've entered a whole new level of DR crazy.

I spent this entire last week slaving over Order of the White Rose documents. Yep that's right! For no pay and no gain, and even MORE insane, for a game!

But I was a bonafide geek for years now, I suppose I can't hide it.

I'm actually only halfway through the work, but made a serious breakthrough finishing the last two documents. So I'm feeling really good right now.

I'm looking at my rpol games and realizing "sheesh, those aren't even hard compared to what I was doing for the Order!" Hah! Yep, the complexity of writing recruit training lessons -- given information that takes some interpretation to write in a coherent manner -- defeats any difficulty I've had with RPoL recently.

Okay, maybe I still hate writing Exalted combat right now. But I think ANY RP post would be a break over all that nitpicking over lesson wording. *wobbles*

Right now though I really just want to rest (and by rest I mean poke at facebook apps and mess with the few RPoL posts I AM committed to doing this week).

Not really true. But I've been horrendously busy/distracted.

Earlier this week there was this whole fiasco with my brother-in-law coming to visit with his girlfriend during a time 1) we were TOTALLY not prepared for visitors, 2) I was HORRIBLY busy because I had a lot to do absolutely no time and energy to do it all.

Having the distraction of relative strangers in my home (I didn't know the girl at all, and my brother-in-law and I have the language barrier) completely destroyed any progress I would've had on my work. I was extremely upset about that, and at the idea that we were expected to put up with their presence on short notice because he decided he wanted to leave home on a whim. It wasn't even an emergency or anything so much as just... moving with hardly ANY plan of where to stay and what to do for the next few days.

After all that, my RPoL posting was pretty much thrown off COMPLETELY as well, as I couldn't get the energy to do that, either. I just kept getting more and more behind, more and more exhausted. Even doing work for the Order of the White Rose in DR was more wearing than I would have liked. :(

This is a document I've been working on for the Order. It's a rough draft and likely needs correcting. It may not even be any use to anyone besides myself. It's not meant to give to recruits, more as a collection of info Talliska will cover with them face to face, possibly over multiple interactions.

I am posting it in its current state just 'cause I sat here and worked on it long enough that I might as well share it! :P

EDIT: Updated with more Empire history. Read more to see.

Finally I am up to date for 6.14. Laziness made that longer than it should've been.

Honestly by next year I should be on Drupal 7... also by next year I should do my tag cleanup! It's ridiculous how lazy I am about such things. But when you have 1000+ tags and entries, well y'know. :P

Though meh, I'm not completely sure I've dealt with the speed issues. Unfortunately I had to shut down my Slicehost, I just didn't have the time to mess with it. :/ When I have more funds I will think again about a move to another webserver, I think. Another thing I have to consider is using ISAM tables, apparently this is supposed to be better for Drupal, but... converting my tables is something that will take time, and something I'm nervous about doing, too. (I'm a wuss.)

I'm just too distracted by RPoL and now DR also. :)

One ingenious thing about DR is that I have scripts set up so I can train things that don't need constant attention. So I actually DR while I write posts. Or work on website stuff in this case.