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Toronto, 2014.12.01

I've started compiling a new section of my website dealing with the house rules for dungeons and dragons. Yes, I just said something that nerdy.

I also got a number of newcomers to Canada involved in decorating the company's Christmas tree. They seemed into it.

Three good things that happened today:

  1. Marzipan in my adventskalendar. Mmmmm.

  2. Two Christmas trees decorated in one day. Woohoo!

  3. My first Christmas party of the season is tonight.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.