I am sore all over today.

I tackled a JavaScript idea yesterday that I thought would be much harder than it really is. I can't wait to get the new pages uploaded to the server. Next is the ASP code on the new server and the Magic:the Gathering database. This should be fun....

The heat is nearly unbearable, which disappoints me somewhat. I was hoping to get some work done on my site today, but with no air flow or conditioning of any sort in this room, I am dehydrating quickly. A real shame, since I am in such a creative mood.

Tonight, a musician is playing at the Starbuck's down the street. I don't know who s/he is or what style of music (I'm imaging a singer with an acoustic guitar), but I thought it would be a fun thing for Andy and I to do tonight. He has been so stressed out lately that I doubt he will want to do more than fall asleep once he gets home, but maybe going out for 20 minutes might be good for him.

I am continuing my studies, though I haven't been reporting them to this journal. I am progressing though DMK's Modern Magic (I'm on Chapter 3, so far), and I got some books from Amazon last week that are quite intriguing. More on that when I start reading them.

I have a couple of new projects as well, one for D&D and one for my Magick studies.

The D&D project is an all-elf campaign world. I'm getting some new ideas about it from a science fiction book I'm reading now, Hyperion. One of the characters was an ex-Colonel in a huge interstellar army that follows a code of ethics and honor. He learns from his training, and comes to believe, that the more advanced the civilization is, the more codes and laws it must have. After several horrible nuclear disasters and wars, the armies of these worlds had adopted a samurai-like code of honor and conduct to prevent large-scale wars and to protect civilian life. Animals can kill at whim because they do so for survival; because humans are capable of thought, invention, empathy and understanding they do not have that option. I like the idea of a highly civilized society that has many self-imposed rules, a society that thinks, "Because we are greater, we have more responsibility and obligations." Because elves are so much longer lived than humans, they might be such a society.

The Magick project is concerned with the "Outer Planets." There are well-documented magickal correspondances for the "classical" heavenly bodies (sun, moon, mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn), but because our ancestors were unaware of the outer planets (uranus, neptune, pluto), there is no traditional magickal use for these planets. Maybe there should be, and I plan to find out.