Friday night, my brother-in-law and I attended a Magic: the Gathering pre-release tournament for the new expansion, Dark Ascension. I hadn’t been to a Magic tournament since the M12 pre-release, and I was excited. We were forced to alter our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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*Yawn* Okay, so I’m pretty wiped out from work this week. We had a buildup of several large orders that kept us busy from Monday to about midday yesterday. Technically, I have some work that I’m a little bit behind[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the two-thousandth post here on Norvendae since we implemented the WordPress / ComicPress feature. That includes all blog entries (1,491) and comic pages (509), and represents about two years’ worth of daily website content updates. I’ve mostly written[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Life gives us a nudge when we need to wake up to the wisdom of our experiences, and I can’t think of a better way to arrive at such a conclusion than through a reflection on my own experiences. While[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Working out how encounters will work when you have only one player at the table is going to take a good deal of calculation and concentrated effort. Earlier this year, I mentioned in an entry there were some rudimentary guidelines[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I had the second part of my root canal this morning. It’s going to take another appointment to get everything sealed up and the crown affixed (see title) but we’re in the home stretch. I’ve gotten the insurance squared[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The wind picked up this morning and broke the cheap umbrella we got for visiting one of the Diamonds International stores in Alaska. It made me sad. I told cookiemonger via text message, but I’m not sure how I’m going[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some pen-and-paper roleplaying game systems will allow you to write just about anything down as a character trait or advantage, regardless of how effective it may be within the context of the game. These roleplaying games are really, really stupid.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…Not a reference to the plot of Hogfather. So, I had a dentist appointment this morning. It was supposed to be a routine drilling and filling, plus a replacement of an old filling from when I was a kid. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I woke up from a bad dream a little after one o’clock this morning. It’s a dream I know I’ve had before, I remember details from the previous times I’ve experienced it. It was a bad dream … insofar as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…