I was going to say it seemed like a short month, but that’s just the knee-jerk reaction to the idea of time passage. Everything seems quick, until you actually spend some time thinking about it. Bemused, I think back on all of the things that happened this month. From the mishaps with Brent’s car to [...]
Feels good to have a haircut for summer. It was really getting out of hand for a few weeks there. Over the weekend, what little daylight hours weren’t spent snoozing, I spent my time transplanting my Salvia over to a more permanent location in the front yard. I really should have done a better [...]
Nineteen years ago today, the Hubble telescope was launched into orbit and since then has provided us with priceless opportunities to peer into the great unknown. In what is rapidly becoming a year for looking back at the past, I have no defense for my writing pattern other than a lot of cool shit happened [...]
Earth day. Started nearly forty years ago by a bunch of concerned hippies, I can’t help but wonder if they thought they were doing alright with the movement up until the 1980s. Then you had computers, and the internet, and here we are now. A day in time where I can get a blister-pack full [...]
The weather around here went and got itself nice and hot this weekend, and I can’t be sure if it’s hotter today or merely the fact that I am awake to experience it. I, for one, welcome the change of weather this late into spring. I think we got maybe a week’s worth of rainy [...]
Bored and not particularly tired, I spent a night this last week going through Brent’s corner and cleaning things out. I installed an old black and white text printer for Austin to use with school, as well as anything else that didn’t really require wasting my mom’s ludicrously expensive ink. I printed out an ASCII [...]
I don’t put a lot of stock on political figures. I wont cast my lot with the likes of liberals or conservatives in their race to discredit and denounce one another. For every Rush Limbaugh gaff, there’s an annoying democrats.com spam in my e-mail account, encouraging me to call some representative to stop this or [...]
Dave Arneson, the other founding father of D&D and the creator of the first fantasy setting for D&D rules (Blackmoor), passed away this last week. It’s too bad he had to go so soon after Gary Gygax, and it’s too bad he was never as popular as Gygax was, despite his achievements. Temple of the [...]
It was two years ago this month, if not close to this day, that I began my first real D&D campaign. I did a small stint with Cory and Garrett that they enjoyed a few months before that, but this was the first full-up campaign where I actually put some forethought into each session instead [...]
Visions of dark creatures entered Spah’s mind, and he reeled back as if struck across the face. He stood, hand leaning against an icy stone wall, while his allies discussed their next action. The dragon’s defenses had been somewhat lax thus far, but he wasn’t asking for a challenge. He wasn’t even really sure why [...]
