So, we got a Sears statement in the mail, improperly delivered to our address.   Deborah told me to pop a return to sender on it so we could send it back.  I took it a half step farther.

( Read more... )

Sometimes it sucks being both a (well researched) Civil War reenactor and a history nut.  Movies like the Good the Bad and the Ugly get hard for me to watch when I see confederate soldiers in grey blanket wool with clean branch of service piping and union soldiers wearing 1870's wool undershirts.  It gets even worse when I see Clint Eastwood (and ( Read more... )

So I've put a lot of time into Fallout 3 now, I'm probably about half way content complete on the story, so I feel it's time to put forward my full opinion of the game.
Firstly, I hear a lot of reviewers and gamers argue about whether the game is Fallout or isn't Fallout or whatnot.  In my opinion, it's mostly Fallout. There's no way to shake the ( Read more... )

In honor of the release of Fallout 3, here are the top ten games I've ever played.  Please note, this is a subjective list, not an attempt at an objective best ever.  Also, for ease games with very similar and improved sequels are lumped together ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is a holiday, Fallout 3 day.

I've been waiting for Fallout 3 for years now, and I've followed the rumored creations of the game for years.  Tomorrow, it finally happens.

All that said, I still have mixed feelings.  The game isn't quite the Fallout I was hoping for.  The more first person action I see and the more I hear about the ( Read more... )

I slept three hours Friday night.  I should be asleep right now, but sleep won't come.  This isn't pleasant.  If I can't go to sleep soon I'll have managed three hours of sleep in 72 hours or so.

Weeeee.....

So, the long drought has ended.  Yesterday marked the release in the US market of the first World War 2 armored simulation since Panzer Elite in 1999, the Eastern Front sim "T-34 vs. Tiger".   I managed to get my hands on a copy ( Read more... )

For those of you who play and love Medieval II Total War the way I do, you absolutely MUST check the following link out ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to copperwise !

May all your happy be made manifest into a giant huggable happy bear-thing.  And not the kind that doesn't know its own strength and crushes everyone, then goes crazy and ruins your party, eating all the guests and having to be hunted down and eliminated by an elite government kill team, code name "Black November" which is of ( Read more... )

BOOM!!!  HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS!!!!!

Spotted them 14 and still left with the win!

HOW
BOUT
THEM
COWBOYS

Now, Newman better get healthy and get back to the defense.

Oh, and I live in Georgia now.  Isn't that weird?