Jody hadn't seen Saving Private Ryan so we watched it tonight. I had forgotten just how many excellent actors have bit parts in that film (including an amusing realization that the first Ryan they find is played by a rather young Nathan Fillion ( Read more... )

So I found out recently that Maxx, the store manager at the GW Arundel Mills store who I had issues with back in December, is no longer with the company. I didn't press for details as the people who let me know seemed uncomfortable with being able to say further, but yeah, he's no longer with GW, which means I can go back to the Arundel Mills site ( Read more... )

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/hbo-will-play-game-of-thrones/

Yay!

Pilot and 9 episodes have been ordered. Here's hoping it is a major success!

The first promo image was released for HBO's Game of Thrones

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Played the first round of the National GW Warhammer tourney at the Columbia store against a guy named Wes who was playing Vampire Counts. Really nice guy, good opponent - played very well; it was a thinking game, with each player forcing decisions by the other and a couple of wacky dice rolls that added interesting amounts of drama at some key ( Read more... )

So yesterday the wife and I were out in Rockville for some family errands and early Valentines dinner. One of the stops we needed to make was to exchange some of Rory's dance shoes and I realized 'hey, Dream Wizards is literally right across the street; I haven't been there in ages - I should stop in and look around ( Read more... )

Middle row, most of the way down the page:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?aId=8400023a

Wishing each and every one of you a Merry Christmas and all my best hopes for a wonderful holiday season!

I finally had the time and the right state of mind to sit down with the family and watch Up mon BluRay. I'd seen it in the theaters when it came out and it is definitely the most moving story Pixar has done to date in my opinion; I'd been moved to tears multiple times when I first saw it and I knew it was going to get me again when I watched it the ( Read more... )

Finally got around to accomplishing a personal training goal this year and passed my ITIL v.3 certification exam this afternoon. That makes me feel a little better about the year coming to a close.