¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦
11:26 GMT, Saturday 27th June 2009. "Song of Life" by Leftfield is playing on laptop via random. Sunlight is glowing off the walls for some moments, alternating with moments when big fluffy white clouds drift across...visible through the glass canopy above my head... changing the quality of the light. There's a cool breeze pushing away the recent humidity; pressure's dropping. A promise of rain. It's a good weekend to spend indoors... something Jo and I have planned to do. It's what we call a "bruised dumpling" weekend. We no longer recall why we call it that but it comes to mean quality time together, an island of "us" time in the general flow of busy weekends, holidays and regular time apart doing our own thing.
Despite the cooling temperatures outsides, the house is still warm enough for me to dispense with Starsky, the faithful big-collar cardigan of the past 15 years... so he's now in the washing machine. A big moment for something potentially delicate.
Of course, a bruised dumpling weekend doesn't mean I won't be spending hours up here locked away in the Sky Bunker. Too much to get on with to ignore it.
I got to speak with an old-time friend, Andy C, this week. I met Andy back in the Agency days, around 1999. Great to catch-up again and definately plans for a rendezvous in London some time sooner than later, but I was reminded about how long it's really been since we last hung out when he asked me how my dad was. Christ. My Dad died back in 2006. Another symptom of how much I've been ignoring my social network by focussing on my bloody writing.
Yesterday lunchtime I did some googlebating, specifically on Yellow Dawn. I found a wikia page had been created about it. It’s always slightly surreal reading what other people think of your work.
http://kinginyellow.wikia.com/wiki/Yellow_Dawn_RPG
There’s some very valid criticism about the lack of content for the “Carcosa Mythos”, particularly when you consider the full title of the game is Yellow Dawn – The Age of Hastur. It’s ironic because it was only last weekend, whilst doing one of my 7 mile hikes around Jesus Mound, that I was thinking up a new Dead City bolt-on for the game, specifically something involving the Carcosa Mythos, creating “overlaps” between our world and the realm of the King in Yellow. It will have to wait though: I’m currently blazing through the revised version of Iron Man Project and gearing up to start work on Dog Eat Dog.
Hopefully, I’m not viewed as guilty of mis-selling something. Still, it’s rewarding to see positive words and comments from other people about something I’ve sweated over.
Djr