So Dragon*Con is Labor Day weekend. The idea of going sounds like so much fun. It has been 14 years since I have been to a "gaming" convention.

I say sounds like so much fun since I have never "been" to a convention. I've worked (volunteered) at quite a few run by Andcon/WotC/GAMA. Those were super fun times! I was usually running the video game ( Read more... )

Someone has clogged the tubes!

Unexpected Maintenance in progress

We're not quite sure why we're down this time, but I'm sure we know about it and are working to resolve it :)

I feel for the anti-smoking peeps.

Everyone agrees that cigarettes are bad for you, there is no argument there ( Read more... )

Frogmistess and I paid off our house this month! /clap ( Read more... )

Working for an automotive supplier certainly has been a fun place to be for the last 14 years ( Read more... )

I stumbled on such a nice post on independent.ie.

It was written August 31 2008, so the author, Emer O'Kelly, wasn't talking about the several currently proposed "anti-blasphemy" laws (at least I don't think he was). But he hits that point and a couple other points that have been chafing at me lately very succinctly. So I thought I would share!

...There's a world outside of Yonkers
Way out there beyond this hick town, Barnaby
There's a slick town, Barnaby
Out there
Full of shine and full of sparkle
Close your eyes and see it glisten, Barnaby
Listen, Barnaby...I obtained a full DVD copy of Wall-E last night, so happiness is ( Read more... )

You can not describe yourself as modest, that is what the word means!

Back in 2004 when W won by campaigning against 2-boys-kissing, I was depressed. I looked around and thought "why do so many value different things than I do ( Read more... )

In fact, if you do, you are no longer fighting evil, you are perpetuating it.

I listened to a NPR story this morning about Fort Hunt, a secret military base where Nazi prisoners of war were interrogated during World War Two.

Researching it a bit more I found an article in the Washington Post last year covering a meeting of some of the veterans of ( Read more... )