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L5R Fiction
For centuries, the armies of the Crane have gathered in the mountainous valleys north of Shiro Daidoji, well away from the spying eyes of its foes ( Read more... ) -
On Character Optimization in Pathfinder Society
There's different levels of optimization. (I'll ignore Pun Pun, since it doesn't work anyway. In the Forgotten Realms, only AO can elevate gods ( Read more... ) -
Weapons in L5R 4th Edition
I like the L5R 4th Edition RPG, and I really like the Heroes of Rokugan Living Campaign. I fell into it by accident (I booked a trip to Gencon before realizing the RPGA wasn't offering any games I could play), but since I played a bit of 1st Edition L5R, I thought I'd give it a try. And it was an absolute blast. It really scratches an itch for me ( Read more... ) -
Omnibus Update
Since Ada was born, I went slogging through House of Chains (a Steven Erikson novel). Great book, but it took me seven weeks to finish it. I started worrying that my book-reading mojo had tapered off with the birth of my kid, but then I looked back on that time period and realized I'd read two Scalzi novels in a day each, and then moved on to doing ( Read more... ) -
So yeah, we had a baby
Ada Karen William Kerney was born on the morning of July 25th, 2012. In the two months that we've had her, she's turned out to be a pretty good kid. Mellow, intelligent (she was repeating each of the vowels back to me today - A E I O U), and good-natured. She smiles a lot, and laughs when you smile back at her. She occasionally gets days in which ( Read more... ) -
May Canada Trip
Well, it's 2012, now, might as well finish this one -
Flew direct from Fresno to Seattle, one hour stopover in Seattle, and then on to Vancouver, arriving on the 5/10/11.
Spent three days in Vancouver, staying at the Empire Landmark hotel in downtown Vancouver. Has a rotating restaurant up top. (Which wasn't very good, it turns out.)
Downtown ( Read more... ) -
The Runelords Series
I really wanted to like this series. The world is well crafted, with a fascinating magic series, and a fast-moving plot. But as I worked through the first and now the second books, I found myself reacting more and more negatively to it. So I started taking notes as I read it, trying to figure out why. At the end of the book, I settled on four major ( Read more... ) -
2010 in a Nutshell
Here's 2010 in a nutshell ( Read more... ) -
Connections
I was going to do a mega-post on all the events that have taken place since June, but I just had a wonderful evening with Macy, talking about a number of different things, but all linked together ( Read more... ) -
The Way of Kings Review
Review of The Way of Kings (http://www.amazon.com/Way-Kings-Stormlight-Archive/dp/0765326353) by Brandon Sanderson (http://mistborn.livejournal.com/Read more... )