Leon Phillips, good friend and an even better host for yours truly during my stay down south for the last few days, just pulled off a great job as the tournament organizer for the 2005 Seattle Kotei, which is known to L5R fans as the Everything to Gain tournament. I'll have more to say on this once I get some sleep, having just arrived home after a ( Read more... )

Monk
You scored 90 Holy, 47 Tactful, 87 Natural, and 40 Arcane!

Awkward at low levels, an unstoppable juggernaught at high levels, you are the monk. I think an honest attempt was made to make the kind of monks you always see in those awesome movies from China, but really, they came up with something pretty weird here. You are so in tune with ( Read more... )

My father came home with a big grin on his face and insisted we take a look at this.

Join the crowd. I don't know whether to laugh or cry, because the satire has a dark edge to it.

http://www.jibjab.com/

So, the ever-generous Monkey King invited me to try Gmail. I can hardly wait to fool around with it! My Hotmail account is long-abandoned to spam, and my current primary e-mail account has traditionally experienced a fair bit of lag in sending out messages.

Tools that work well, with no fuss, are priceless time-savers.

Sean's Lesson on How Not to Win a Kotei Two Years Running ( Read more... )

So, Spring Training has begun ( Read more... )

This is it. I'm 30 ( Read more... )

Too stiff to type much. :)

My birthday is in five days, and I'll be turning 30.

I celebrated this landmark a few days in advance with my father in grand style--we spent two fantastic days skiing at Whistler, capped off by a surprise early birthday present, a pair of gorgeous new skis. Shweeeet!

More later when the soreness has vanished.

I had the pleasure of playing host for the afternoon to a friend of mine from Tacoma, originally hailing from NoCal, by the name of John Gizzi. He and his wife are considering a move across the border to Vancouver later this year ( Read more... )

While I keep working on my legal research project in eventual hopes of submitting it for a much-delayed first class grade at law school before I apply to grad school, I am also acting as team lead for a group of Canadian enthusiasts playtesting for Legend of the Five Rings. We just concluded a meeting where we played some test decks and talked ( Read more... )