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Good Morning All!

It’s been a busy week, but with very little accomplished on any front. How does that happen? I’m trying to get my Teacher English Second Language certificate (TESL) but it’s a daunting process trying to get registered for the online courses. The University of Winnipeg runs like a Third World country or an Italian railway these days; I can’t understand anyone in the English Department anymore when I call down there, and no one knows anything. I’m still waiting on an academic reference (I wonder if the foreign students need one). I don’t dare go down there, as I’ll have to navigate Pride rainbow hallways and lie-ins in remembrance of one massacre or another. I often catch myself looking for a high feature with good fields of fire. ‘Nuff said.

Pledge: I’m going to try and finish building my five extra starship crewmen, and get more work done on my battle boards. The river boards are finished and delivered, along with two of six flat boards. I’ve managed to do some upgrading on mini’s that will be used in a baptismal ruck at my LGS. That work will continue. I may get some of it done at an anime convention I’m teaching at on Sunday.

1. What’s wrong with people? See opening paragraph. To wit, I have no idea when or how it all went off the rails.

2. High Point? My lawyer conquered Veterans Affairs and got them to stop garnishing my disability checks for money I don’t owe them.

3. Details that catch my eye? I’m always looking for faults on my gaming tables, be it the mini’s or the terrain. A good table, like a good book, should suspend disbelief. One day someone brought their own mini, an unpainted piece of crap, and dropped it in the middle of my painfully detailed dungeon scene. I almost had a shit hemorrhage. I’m funny that way.

4. I can’t get into any of the newer dumbed down games. I prefer realism over playabiltity, so always go back to my old ways: Traveller and 1st Edition AD&D and Battlesystem.

At work, so no chance to pilfer songs from Youtube. I’ll post some later in the day or tomorrow morning. I’ve had Eric Clapton’s ‘Cocaine’ running through my head since it came on the radio during my commute.