So, who wants to whip up a bid for Spring Coronation, 2010? The "dry run" this past April seems to have gone well. (Or will this be a Darkyard reign?)

One benefit of having a GF who gets up at 0500 is having over an hour to have a liesurely breakfast and watch Dr. Who before I go in to the office. Scott passed me Angie's copies of Series 4 and I'm rationing myself - 1 episode a day.

Today's quote, from "Silence in the Library":

"I'm a time traveler. I laugh and point at archaeologists."

With the Floor Wars miniatures gaming convention coming up in 6 weeks (rather than 2 weeks as I'd previously believed) it looks like I'll have just enough time to prep the game I've wanted to run for a couple of years now - Venus and Back! - A Victorian Science-Fiction Odyssey.

I enjoy miniatures wargaming, though my own collection is pretty ( Read more... )

We got a washer and dryer on Sunday, secondhand from a friend who's clearing out a house. They're in the basement and hooked up, though I'll need to acquire & install a belt to get the dryer fully functional ( Read more... )

The bungalow that I've moved into was built sometime around 1919, and it shows. It was also hard-used in its earlier life and there are a lot of things about it that I'd really like to update and change. Now, clearly there are several limiting factors: time, money, available skill just to name a few. But that doesn't mean that I can't dream ( Read more... )

In memory of Patrick Swazey's passing (57, cancer), the following film festival:

Red Dawn
Dirty Dancing
Ghost

I know Scott would push for the inclusion of Road House, but it's the wrong brand of cheese for this event.

Eyeball Test

It's an online test gauging your ability to perform geometry "by eye".

I got an initial score of 4.12 Units Inaccurate (a lower score is better) on my first try. How do you do?

I have a laptop computer, Frankensteined together by a group of friends as a gift a couple years ago. I stopped using it because it was unconscienably slow, probably due to "hidden" software I could never locate to shut off. I'm seeking advice on doing a full tabula rasa on it and reinstalling the OS etc from a clean ground state. Or, I'm seeking ( Read more... )

So the Pearce Family House Swap ran into a roadblock a week or so ago when the appraiser who was evaluating my brother’s house came back with a ridiculous low-ball value and the bank wouldn’t make a loan for any more than that amount. (The six “comparable” houses in the neighborhood that he selected were all sheriff’s sales, and he reached pretty ( Read more... )

So, the bank appraiser is giving my brother delays and minor grief over the numbers on his house, the practical upshot of this being that the deal is not going down this weekend. Probably next, so the Moving Weekend has been pushed back to Friday-Saturday 21-22 August. *le sigh ( Read more... )