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This fortnight my partner and I head upstate (which is New Yorker for “North”) to visit Mt. Kisco and The Hamlet British Shop. I also create the best postcard ever.

Monday November 10th, 2025

Vaccinations.

Two of them.

On the way home I saw this car, took this picture, and sent it to my pal Atlas in Austin.

He told me to steal it.

I told him that I tried.

(I did not try to steal the car).

Wednesday November 12th, 2025

I have several books about daily adventures or daily creativity and here is a page from one of these books.

Friday November 14th, 2025

A postcard that I have probably mailed out to my friend Tony in Michigan.

Tony gets a postcard nearly every week.

I forgot to write about this card in my notes, so I’m not sure what we spoke about.

Probably Project: Gorgon, the online roleplaying video game that I’ve been enjoying the heck out of lately.

This next postcard is one of my favorites of all time.

I took an advertisement for an acrobatics show and I replaced the faces with Kirby stickers and then I mailed it to my friend Tommy in Michigan.

This is the best postcard that I have ever mailed.

I don’t think I can ever outdo this card.

Monday November 17th, 2025

Sometimes I like to show off my roleplaying game books.

The bottom shelf is the adventure books and the improvement books as well as some loose comics and notebooks that I’m sorting through.

The comics and books that I’m actively working through are on the shelf next to our bed.

I’m trying to be good about clearing out books that I’m no longer reading.

These four books above have been removed from the bookshelf and have been added to the eBay shelf.

I need to sell these since I’m not reading them any more.

I used to be a member of a monthly RPG book thing and it was a lot of fun to get so many books for a good price, but there were a few duds that snuck in from time to time.

When I was in Austin, I’d bring them to Half Priced Books for a quick sale, but now that I’m in NYC I’ll eBay them.

The post office is much closer than a store that I might be able to sell these to.

Tuesday November 18th, 2025

Another postcard that I forgot to take notes about, so I will again assume that it went to Tony.

I don’t know what I wrote about on this card, but one topic that might have been discussed is The Librarian’s Apprentice by Daniel Bronson-Lowe.

I recently picked up a physical copy of this solo roleplaying game at my favorite RPG store in NYC: Twenty Sided.

This game feels both simple and complex.

The entire game is written in three pamphlets, but I was having trouble wrapping my brain around it, so I broke out some dice and played a few rounds to see how it goes.

Our little librarian’s apprentice went on quite the adventure and we had some close calls while wandering these endless hallways, but our little trouble-maker was able to complete their duties and return to their part of the library without breaking anything.

I still haven’t decided how I feel about solo RPGs, but this was a great experience.

Wednesday November 19th, 2025

A postcard for Tony.

On this card I tell Tony that I’m trying to spend less time online and more time with physical games and comic books.

It often feels like I have popcorn brain and end up with analysis paralysis about doing anything.

Spending more focused time away from a screen has been a big help for me lately.

I think I’m going to try to do even more of this.

I also spend a lot of time playing a video game called Dead by Daylight, but I don’t think that it is a good game for me.

I’ve got hundreds of hours in that game. Possibly thousands. The game can be very frustrating.

Some rounds turn toxic, and I am trying to use this to learn.

To push through these frustrations without lashing out.

I’m sure this is something that I should have learned as a child, but thanks to a little bit of neglect I’m now a forty-five year old man who is trying to make up for this lost piece of childhood and to become a better person.

Saturday November 22nd, 2025

Today my partner Lauri has a plan: Go to the British store in Mt. Kisco, New York.

Also known as The Hamlet British Shop.

For heading upstate, but not too far we can take one of the Metro North lines out of Grand Central.

On the train ride I wear the bracelet that Tony made for me and I write a postcard to him.

I sometimes wonder if this blog will one day become a piece of history and if people will assume that Tony is a faraway lover, or something, hahaha.

For the record, Tony and I were roommates back in the 90s and we were both very broke and struggling to get by, but we always supported each other with our wacky ideas.

At one point we owned a computer business together.

We built a lot of computers and one time Tony touched a large and exposed capacitor on a computer and electrocuted himself a little bit.

He was also there the time I fell off of a car and woke up in a hospital several days later.

Life is strange.

It’s good to have a best friend.

Someone who won’t fall asleep on the train ride.

Like Lauri.

Tony wouldn’t fall asleep on a train ride to Mt. Kisco, New York.

That’s why people will think he’s my long-distance lover in the future.

Despite sleeping during the important travel, we made it in once piece.

Mt Kisco, New York here we are!

Let’s see what the British store has to offer.

A walk-in safe full of records?

Sure, that makes sense.

After the way we treated their tea 252 years ago, I’d lock up the valuables at the shop, too.

Oh, they have an Adam Ant album!

I wouldn’t dump his music into the ocean.

The Hamlet British Shop is a delightful store and we are now loaded up on Marmite and Jammie Dodgers.

I wonder what else this little town has to offer?

We spend some time at a small thrift store and eat a nice meal.

Oh, and this is that bracelet that I was talking about earlier that Tony made for me.

I went and visited him earlier in the year and one of the adventure list items we did during that visit was to make friendship bracelets.

We both did an adequate job.

Sunday November 23rd, 2025

I played a bunch of Project: Gorgon today and focused on crafting skills.

It was a potato day. A day of laying around doing nothing.

May you also have a good potato day from time to time.

Cheers. 🥂