A-Dublin I shall go

Silence shall reign here for a few days as the annual ISTO (Irish Student Trampolining Open) trip is upon me. Some of us are flying out tonight for the competition on Saturday. Much fun shall it be. I shall keep a small journal while there to put up here.

I have put a big batch of pictures up on my Flickr page, including a couple of me. You can see them at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lsnduck/

I watched The Incredibles last night. I should have been going to the theatre, but the performance was cancelled so the friend I was going with and I rented the aforementioned DVD instead. It was brilliant, good jokes, great story and cool ideas. There seemed to be lots of influences from the serious side of comics which added a nice balance to the light hearted kiddies romp aspect. Well recommended and another success for Pixar.

I promised some reasoning for my stepping down as LSN Alliance admin. There are a number of factors. Partly, after many long years, my interest in LSN in general is finally dropping away although I have no intention of leaving for good yet. Also, I wasn't really enjoying the admin side of things so much. Putting results in was becoming a chore and decisions about games was having less meaning for me. I had taken an unofficial break for a while and after coming back and doing some work again, there was no sparkle and if my committment isn't there, it isn't fair on the players for me to carry on. Also, in gobbo and Brootal, Alliance has a fine pair to run it now, so there was no issue on that score. Finally, things in other parts of my life are starting to take more inmportance for me, so I wanted to spend some more time there as well.

It was wonderful to have done it, I did enjoy helping both the great DocWorm and Quick Ben, and helping everyone enjoy the competition was brilliant. But it has sadly come to an end. Alliance is still the best though.

Time for me to go and back my bags and buy some Euros.

Quack!