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Holy crap, look who’s back!?!?  This is awesome.  Hello, sir!  It’s been a long, long time since I’ve been on this thread, so let me see if I am out of practice …

Pledge: Oh God, where do I start.  Now first off, my “style” of hobby might be slightly different from many people’s, so bear with me.  Short version:  I am now part of the Sitrep Podcast, a small but fierce group of gamers who focus pretty much entirely on MODERN conflicts, call it post-1945.  I also run at least one, usually two wargames through the weekend on the web, often on Twitch.  So a lot of hex & counter stuff that can be easily virtualized on the web.  So for this weekend we have three main deliverables:

a) Record with with @stvitusdancern to record Season Three Premiere of the Sitrep Podcast (Saturday morning)

b) Run Darkstar with @damon in the UK and @rasmus up in Ohio.  That’ll be live on the web starting at 17:30 UK time tomorrow, ping me via PM if anyone wants to check it out.

c) Run AirWar C21 with @elessar2590 in Australia on Sunday starting at 9:00 PM UK Time.  That’ll be live on web conferecne and also hopefully on the Sitrep Podcast  Twitch channel.  We’ll be doing jet dogfights over North Vietnam, 1967.  Think X-Wing only historical.

1. Tell me something you have watched since I have been away? I actually enjoyed the History Channel series Texas Rising – it’s billed as how the Texas Rangers were founded but what it really presents is the unfolding of the Texian War of Independence after the fall of the Alamo.  Bill Paxton stars as Sam Houston (one of his last roles, sadly), Ray Liotta, lots of other good actors.

2. How as your week been? – Trying to recover after five days at Historicon in Lancaster Pennsylvania.  We have 83 pieces of content up.  Check some of it out if you haven’t already.  😀

3. It is the summer! – Summer is miserable here in Florida.  Heat, rain every day, and hurricanes.  We survive it, and look forward to the winter.

4. Tell me about your very first girlfriend/boyfriend … what did you do to make a fool of yourself?  God, what didn’t I do to make a fool of myself?  I was new at that game, said a lot of things.  Both good and bad, but in both cases way over the top, everything was “end of the world hyperbole” in those days.

5. Since I have been away tell me a few things I will have missed. – Well, I’m on the Sitrep Team now.  Check out out Youtube Channel if so inclined.  I’ve created video series call the “Ops Center,” where we talk about modern warfare from a gaming perspective.  So far I’ve done series on the Arab-Israeli Wars and the Falklands 1982.

6. Just a quickie…anyone thinking of a genre change? – This week I’m doing sci-fi (Darkstar) and Moderns Historical (AirWarC21) – So I guess I’m already there!

How have you been?  Very glad to see you back.  What kinds of hobby are you working on?  You mention the new painting station.  😀