... the IT man in LibraryLand
So, last Friday was the long awaited celebration of Amoeba's longevity.
One was caught somewhat in the dilemma between attendance and one's paternal duties to young Hulk and her needs various - it being bath night and all that that entails.
Hulk, however, had other ideas. Upon this great struggle of one's mind she decide to unleash her special Technicolour Yawn attack with it's amazingly quick re-use time, and alas the Epic Struggle was over in a rush.
It was quite a shame to miss the event as from all accounts nobody can really remember what happened so it must have been fantastic. Also, I had, after uncounted interrupted nights sleep, been thinking of gifting The Tiger to Amoeba to get her crazy feline collection off to a most fitting start. I guess that will have to wait now.
Of course, due to her genetic heritage, Hulk went over the top and managed to effect both Salsa Girl and oneself with her special attack. Being the gentleman I am I took the bullet for Salsa Girl who has only suffered mildly while I believe one may have suffered some rib damage from the whole messy affair.
All in all, not a recommended way to have a few days off work.
At all.
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Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
One has caught up with the second volume of this much-lauded series after a short break.
Four years counts as short in series reading time, right?
Anyway, I found it to be another enjoyable romp through the whole wizard private eye with a heart of gold genre and give it a solid 3.5 stars and one does fill fractionally closer to running the Dresden Files Roleplaying game with some authority now.
While it didn't dazzle me as much as the first volume I shall definitely get to reading volume three after a short break - especially as I encouraged the library to purchase the whole lot as I knew a very interested borrower.
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Four years counts as short in series reading time, right?
Anyway, I found it to be another enjoyable romp through the whole wizard private eye with a heart of gold genre and give it a solid 3.5 stars and one does fill fractionally closer to running the Dresden Files Roleplaying game with some authority now.
While it didn't dazzle me as much as the first volume I shall definitely get to reading volume three after a short break - especially as I encouraged the library to purchase the whole lot as I knew a very interested borrower.
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More Traveller than Most
Well the other week my Traveller Fifth Edition Kickstarter loot finally arrived.
After having to put up with months of taunting from the likes of The Bastard and Fantomas - both much more minor Traveller aficionados than yours truly and not deserving of receiving their packages so much earlier than I - one had to endure further taunting as the long awaited parcel just happened to be delivered to one's workplace on a day when one was working from home.
To make matters worse Sidekick commenced to text photos of said package along with implied threats to mark it return to sender.
Still all's well that ends well and it has been safely in my beloved grasp for more than a week now. I now have proof that I am more Traveller than most in the form of my land grants for imaginary worlds, sovereignty over nary a hundred of them, credits from the Far Future, and a tome of rules that could stop many a bullet.
While I had heard some scary tales of the books near decade of creation I still decided to participate in the Kickstarter to say thank you to the man who created a game I've played, read, and enjoyed for over 30 years.
The rules themselves do show every signs of being a vanity project with the topic jumping, rambling, and repetitiveness of a gamer gone too far down the path of not actually playing with real people and many additions of so-called "realism" with things such as spectrum ratings for characters vision.
The thought of running any game with it does make my brain hurt, but I may mine sections of it and I expect there will be some fascinated horror reading as I progress through it's 600 odd non-indexed pages with no table of contents.
Now while The Viking Hat GM may be right when he said "buying a 600 page pile of crap to say thank you is bollocks, just send the man some money directly", it just didn't seem as good a way to maintain my More Traveller than Most status.
The most worrying part of all this is that the book has a rather prominent 1 on the spine marking it as merely Volume number one in a series of books that will be created. One can only hope the next one takes a further decade to produce.
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After having to put up with months of taunting from the likes of The Bastard and Fantomas - both much more minor Traveller aficionados than yours truly and not deserving of receiving their packages so much earlier than I - one had to endure further taunting as the long awaited parcel just happened to be delivered to one's workplace on a day when one was working from home.
To make matters worse Sidekick commenced to text photos of said package along with implied threats to mark it return to sender.
Still all's well that ends well and it has been safely in my beloved grasp for more than a week now. I now have proof that I am more Traveller than most in the form of my land grants for imaginary worlds, sovereignty over nary a hundred of them, credits from the Far Future, and a tome of rules that could stop many a bullet.
While I had heard some scary tales of the books near decade of creation I still decided to participate in the Kickstarter to say thank you to the man who created a game I've played, read, and enjoyed for over 30 years.
The rules themselves do show every signs of being a vanity project with the topic jumping, rambling, and repetitiveness of a gamer gone too far down the path of not actually playing with real people and many additions of so-called "realism" with things such as spectrum ratings for characters vision.
The thought of running any game with it does make my brain hurt, but I may mine sections of it and I expect there will be some fascinated horror reading as I progress through it's 600 odd non-indexed pages with no table of contents.
Now while The Viking Hat GM may be right when he said "buying a 600 page pile of crap to say thank you is bollocks, just send the man some money directly", it just didn't seem as good a way to maintain my More Traveller than Most status.
The most worrying part of all this is that the book has a rather prominent 1 on the spine marking it as merely Volume number one in a series of books that will be created. One can only hope the next one takes a further decade to produce.
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