It appears that I do not have daily thoughts. A disturbing concept, but there you have it.
My mother has been having trouble with her legs recently. Basically everything below the waist decides that moving is not in the cards. She has been in two hospitals for it and they are not finding a reason. Each time she gets back a little function and off home she goes. Surprisingly, at the age of 87, she is in a positive mood, she is sure she can overcome this one too. Gotta love the spirit.
I have been keeping half an eye on the OWS type protests. Not being a youngster I remember the protests of the 60's, I was there.
Declaration of Independence opening:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I love what they did here. First, they used the word Creator to include all beliefs. You can believe the Creator is Evolution or God, and it still works. They say all men are equal. Children of the poor, middle class, rich or oligarchs are equal, none are greater. And everyone of us has the born right to Life, Liberty and to try to be Happy.
Are the leaders in Washington trying to guide our country with these words in their minds? You decide. Go look, do your own research, examine their deeds, not the words.
OK, enough thinking, it wears me out.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
At Detroit Fanfare
And Hello from Cobo! Seeing a lot of familiar faces. Good Coffee here. The only drawback is the 1.5 hour drive down from home.
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Location:Labrosse St,Detroit,United States
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Making Progress and even writing
I have started setting time aside specifically for writing. It can be for DS books, Guides or for Podcasts. The important thing is to get some words down on paper.
Yesterday I got a couple of hours work done on Hadley's Safe House. It is an adventure and how to for starting players. I have been picking away at it for way too long and need to get it finished. The schedule is to dedicate three yours Monday, Wednesday and Friday to writing and editing my own work. I am going to try 1-4 each day. Yesterday I did reviewing of the work and added about 500 words. Not a big jump, but a good start.
Tonight I am running for our primary play group. They are running DS 2 experimental characters. Sue is running a Gargoyle Reaver with all new cards. So far she is pretty mean. Tonight will be a good test. Tomorrow we will finally talk about the cards she is using. I have several reviews of the new Gargoyle cards from our player/editors. I will be combining all of the changes and putting them together. I am hopeful that I can have a Beta set of cards done and up next week.
Is anyone else concerned that the good old US of A has become number one among western nations in Child Poverty? Is it wrong that we are not talking about this? How did we achieve this notorious position? Why is it OK with our cost cutting congressmen to finance school rebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan, but not in the US? Is that the kind of decision that has relegated our children to poverty? Oh, and we got #1 for adult poverty too. Go USA!
Yesterday I got a couple of hours work done on Hadley's Safe House. It is an adventure and how to for starting players. I have been picking away at it for way too long and need to get it finished. The schedule is to dedicate three yours Monday, Wednesday and Friday to writing and editing my own work. I am going to try 1-4 each day. Yesterday I did reviewing of the work and added about 500 words. Not a big jump, but a good start.
Tonight I am running for our primary play group. They are running DS 2 experimental characters. Sue is running a Gargoyle Reaver with all new cards. So far she is pretty mean. Tonight will be a good test. Tomorrow we will finally talk about the cards she is using. I have several reviews of the new Gargoyle cards from our player/editors. I will be combining all of the changes and putting them together. I am hopeful that I can have a Beta set of cards done and up next week.
Is anyone else concerned that the good old US of A has become number one among western nations in Child Poverty? Is it wrong that we are not talking about this? How did we achieve this notorious position? Why is it OK with our cost cutting congressmen to finance school rebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan, but not in the US? Is that the kind of decision that has relegated our children to poverty? Oh, and we got #1 for adult poverty too. Go USA!
Friday, August 5, 2011
Second day at Gencon
Morning at the con. I need more coffee.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Sickness and entertainment, the wandering mind
Being "under the weather" has done a couple of things. First, it has taken my computer away from me, it is really hard to use it and be in a half sitting, half laying position. Anyway, it has sent me to my entertainment to keep the mind distracted.
By now everyone, well, some people, know that Sue and I abandoned TV. Somehow paying for 720 hours of TV a day seemed rather extreme. Especially with us watching a few hours a week at most.
Now I rely on the Internet. I have a couple of archeology podcasts, legal, philosophy, sociology, psychology and grammar podcasts that I follow to keep up with my college degrees.
For technology I follow a number of the twit network podcasts, plus a couple of others. If the tech podcasts know less than I do, I do not stick with them, and there are a surprising number that are either dumb or paid pawns of someone.
On the news end I have a left wing, right wing, neocon, liberal, and a couple of extra wings as well. I must live in a quad plane society. My favorite is dan carlin's common sense.
I have a number of movies on my computer, usually I get them a few years after release for $3.00 at the dollar stores, but I have them, and I can watch those over the network on the iPad as I rest.
I also have a good number of audiobooks. They come from iTunes, audible and from cd's. These are also available across the network, well, the audible is not. They use irritating DRM. I can't listen to my own books over my own network. They have a work around, but why do I need it?
I have a number of open source audiobooks as well, reviewing Aristotle, Bacon and others is always good for the mind.
I have some TV shows that I have gotten into the computer as well. I go back and watch Babylon 5 on a regular basis. I have not gotten many of these, there really are not that many that I want to watch more than once.
Right now I have a radio episode of the Scarlet Pumpernickel playing in my ears. Beyond Midnight is up next.
The result is that I actually have more entertainment that I am interested in now than I did when we had TV's 720 plus hours a day.
I guess getting sick has made me realize just how good it is to live in a free society and be able to make my own choices rather than letting others choose for me.
Life is good.
-- Posted From My iPad
By now everyone, well, some people, know that Sue and I abandoned TV. Somehow paying for 720 hours of TV a day seemed rather extreme. Especially with us watching a few hours a week at most.
Now I rely on the Internet. I have a couple of archeology podcasts, legal, philosophy, sociology, psychology and grammar podcasts that I follow to keep up with my college degrees.
For technology I follow a number of the twit network podcasts, plus a couple of others. If the tech podcasts know less than I do, I do not stick with them, and there are a surprising number that are either dumb or paid pawns of someone.
On the news end I have a left wing, right wing, neocon, liberal, and a couple of extra wings as well. I must live in a quad plane society. My favorite is dan carlin's common sense.
I have a number of movies on my computer, usually I get them a few years after release for $3.00 at the dollar stores, but I have them, and I can watch those over the network on the iPad as I rest.
I also have a good number of audiobooks. They come from iTunes, audible and from cd's. These are also available across the network, well, the audible is not. They use irritating DRM. I can't listen to my own books over my own network. They have a work around, but why do I need it?
I have a number of open source audiobooks as well, reviewing Aristotle, Bacon and others is always good for the mind.
I have some TV shows that I have gotten into the computer as well. I go back and watch Babylon 5 on a regular basis. I have not gotten many of these, there really are not that many that I want to watch more than once.
Right now I have a radio episode of the Scarlet Pumpernickel playing in my ears. Beyond Midnight is up next.
The result is that I actually have more entertainment that I am interested in now than I did when we had TV's 720 plus hours a day.
I guess getting sick has made me realize just how good it is to live in a free society and be able to make my own choices rather than letting others choose for me.
Life is good.
-- Posted From My iPad
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Tuesday talk
Life has thrown me a curveball here over the past few days. The warm, wet weather has exploded my allergies. A good deal of swelling is going on. It is causing my arthritis to be rather painful, and even typing is causing pain. One of the side effects of having no insurance and relying on good food is that while I am doing very well on average, when there is a flare up, it is a pain.
We got set 401 in and I am slowly getting the pre-orders ready for shipping tomorrow. I will also get it moved over to the regular item order page in the morning.
Working with Flint laminators and doing ink research we are building a way to be able to sell special orders of individual cards. We are having to layout our storage and numbering system in a way to make it reasonable. We will be able to sell the cards in batches of nine cards. Those nine cards can be different cards. We will be able to do that for $9.00, or $1.00 per card. That will allow people to order just the cards they want for a character.
Sue is still having trouble reading her Dragon Storm cards. What we are going to have to do is to strip out the backgrounds and and make the cards Black and White with a color art square. I still have a couple of days work to be able to make that work. The result is that Sue can read the cards.
This weekend we will be at Penguicon. I know the hotel has a number of "things" in the air that set off my allergies. With my current allergy attack, I will have to be very careful, and find ways to support Sue. It can be done.
I need to spend a day creating the newsletter in here somewhere. I think I should schedule that for tomorrow. I can do it after we get the shipping done in the morning.
Tonight we have a game, it will be with lower CP characters. This groups main characters all have a chance to get Boons, so they are taking an adventure off to account for the time used. Gives them a chance to build up the secondary characters.
It is interesting to watch how Second Edition characters build. We have a lot more "big" cards coming down the pipe, including the HP cards, so characters have fewer cards. This leaves them more vulnerable to Fatigue. To counter that characters are taking more small role-playing cards to create a buffer against fatigue. It is also making them, on average, more capable in hamlets, villages and when meeting merchant caravans. Players are damned sharp people, they quickly adapt to change. Their choices are also giving me, as GM, more variety in what I can create for them to encounter.
Tonight they will be spending some time traveling with a Trader Tribe of Das Karr. Their are about 40 of them. A dozen other humanoids are traveling with them for security. They travel between hamlets, villages and towns trading what they buy, buying what they can trade and selling entertainment.
Ok, enough for now, fingers hurt.
-- Posted From My iPad
We got set 401 in and I am slowly getting the pre-orders ready for shipping tomorrow. I will also get it moved over to the regular item order page in the morning.
Working with Flint laminators and doing ink research we are building a way to be able to sell special orders of individual cards. We are having to layout our storage and numbering system in a way to make it reasonable. We will be able to sell the cards in batches of nine cards. Those nine cards can be different cards. We will be able to do that for $9.00, or $1.00 per card. That will allow people to order just the cards they want for a character.
Sue is still having trouble reading her Dragon Storm cards. What we are going to have to do is to strip out the backgrounds and and make the cards Black and White with a color art square. I still have a couple of days work to be able to make that work. The result is that Sue can read the cards.
This weekend we will be at Penguicon. I know the hotel has a number of "things" in the air that set off my allergies. With my current allergy attack, I will have to be very careful, and find ways to support Sue. It can be done.
I need to spend a day creating the newsletter in here somewhere. I think I should schedule that for tomorrow. I can do it after we get the shipping done in the morning.
Tonight we have a game, it will be with lower CP characters. This groups main characters all have a chance to get Boons, so they are taking an adventure off to account for the time used. Gives them a chance to build up the secondary characters.
It is interesting to watch how Second Edition characters build. We have a lot more "big" cards coming down the pipe, including the HP cards, so characters have fewer cards. This leaves them more vulnerable to Fatigue. To counter that characters are taking more small role-playing cards to create a buffer against fatigue. It is also making them, on average, more capable in hamlets, villages and when meeting merchant caravans. Players are damned sharp people, they quickly adapt to change. Their choices are also giving me, as GM, more variety in what I can create for them to encounter.
Tonight they will be spending some time traveling with a Trader Tribe of Das Karr. Their are about 40 of them. A dozen other humanoids are traveling with them for security. They travel between hamlets, villages and towns trading what they buy, buying what they can trade and selling entertainment.
Ok, enough for now, fingers hurt.
-- Posted From My iPad
Sunday, March 27, 2011
A Successful Experiment at Animarithon
Sue and I drove down to Bowling Green for a one day Anime convention as an experiment. It went well.
Yes, we did expand the number of people who will be playing DS and who appreciate Sue's art, but there was more, a lot more.
I like these young people. They have ears on both sides of their heads, and they use them. In general they are also mentally flexible. By that I mean that they have not yet locked their minds down into any ideology, or have become set in their ways. They still have open minds.
They do not have as much life experience as older people, but that is something they will gain. And they will gain it from the future rather than from the past.
They are going to make a different world than we live in, and I am going to like it.
-- Posted From My iPad
Yes, we did expand the number of people who will be playing DS and who appreciate Sue's art, but there was more, a lot more.
I like these young people. They have ears on both sides of their heads, and they use them. In general they are also mentally flexible. By that I mean that they have not yet locked their minds down into any ideology, or have become set in their ways. They still have open minds.
They do not have as much life experience as older people, but that is something they will gain. And they will gain it from the future rather than from the past.
They are going to make a different world than we live in, and I am going to like it.
-- Posted From My iPad
Friday, March 25, 2011
We live in interesting times
As Sue works on the newest draft of the DS 2.0 rules I get short messages of "I need an appendix of X" or sometimes it is y, but you get the idea. I am looking forward to seeing what she is getting done. I really expect to see the near finished rules in the next few days. Then I get to do an edit and lay it out.
The cards are slowly coming through the system and we have a lot of them at near publishing stage. I am dipping into the card ideas that people have sent in to the web, and they will recognize a number of their ideas as the cards come along. I am actually surprised that we do not have a lot more ideas from people, but there you go.
I have been putting in a lot of hours for the past few months and it is giving me a number of minor pains, aches and strange food cravings. A couple of weeks ago I slept 18 hours a day for three days in a row. That seemed to help. Once we get this project well in hand I am taking a vacation.
Change is difficult for people to deal with, but we are happy with how well DS people are dealing with it. Groups that started playing with the changes last summer are telling us the new version is more fun and easier to play. We still have some people who are afraid to make the jump. We understand. Therefore we left "Classic" in place for them. Classic groups will need to evaluate some of the new cards and decide if they want to use them. The new limiters allow us to create some cards that will be "broken" if you do not use the limiters, but that we leave to the Classic GM's. It is their game and they have 3.4 to assist them.
Sue has just dropped a pile of sketches on me to be scanned so she can complete cards and commissions, so I must go.
-- Posted From My iPad
The cards are slowly coming through the system and we have a lot of them at near publishing stage. I am dipping into the card ideas that people have sent in to the web, and they will recognize a number of their ideas as the cards come along. I am actually surprised that we do not have a lot more ideas from people, but there you go.
I have been putting in a lot of hours for the past few months and it is giving me a number of minor pains, aches and strange food cravings. A couple of weeks ago I slept 18 hours a day for three days in a row. That seemed to help. Once we get this project well in hand I am taking a vacation.
Change is difficult for people to deal with, but we are happy with how well DS people are dealing with it. Groups that started playing with the changes last summer are telling us the new version is more fun and easier to play. We still have some people who are afraid to make the jump. We understand. Therefore we left "Classic" in place for them. Classic groups will need to evaluate some of the new cards and decide if they want to use them. The new limiters allow us to create some cards that will be "broken" if you do not use the limiters, but that we leave to the Classic GM's. It is their game and they have 3.4 to assist them.
Sue has just dropped a pile of sketches on me to be scanned so she can complete cards and commissions, so I must go.
-- Posted From My iPad
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Some things just do not fit.
I just deleted a long rambling post I wrote yesterday.
Some cards do not fit neatly into any of the categories we have designed. Therefore we are going to have to add a "Special" card category for everything that requires careful reading before using because they break the rules.
To be able to get the core work done I am going to have to take many of these ideas and post them to myself as projects for the future.
So, when you see something being by passed, assume it needs work and will be along later.
Feel free to email and ask, just in case we have missed something you are interested in.
Some being shelved until later are: Clanborn, Waystones, Familiars, Companions, Elementalism, Ritualism, Astral and nothing else I can think of off the top of my head.
-- Posted From My iPad
Some cards do not fit neatly into any of the categories we have designed. Therefore we are going to have to add a "Special" card category for everything that requires careful reading before using because they break the rules.
To be able to get the core work done I am going to have to take many of these ideas and post them to myself as projects for the future.
So, when you see something being by passed, assume it needs work and will be along later.
Feel free to email and ask, just in case we have missed something you are interested in.
Some being shelved until later are: Clanborn, Waystones, Familiars, Companions, Elementalism, Ritualism, Astral and nothing else I can think of off the top of my head.
-- Posted From My iPad
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