A few weeks ago I blogged about strengthening trust between players in role-playing games, " Trust & Promises in Role-Playing Games". It was inspired by a blog I'd seen on Gnome Stew on the same topic. Well, the Gnomes wrote a sequel to their blog, "Earning Their Trust: The Rules" and it has inspired me to write on the topic again ( Read more... )

Several days ago Hawk and I visited a popular ice cream shop on our way home from a day of hiking. It was a warm evening at around 7pm after a very hot day; an ideal time to visit a great ice cream place. Other folks obviously thought so, too, because the restaurant was crowded. There was a whole girls' soccer team in line in front of us at the ice ( Read more... )

It was a hot day today. The weather app said the high temperature was 95° F. That's hot for around here. A typical daily high in mid-late July around here is 81° F. Global warming is making hot days like this more common and more widespread.

Note I'm not saying the fact it was hot today proves global warming or man-made climate change. Just like ( Read more... )

BuzzFeed posted an interesting listicle yesterday, "Everyday Things People Are Too Old For" (26 Mar 2024). The subheading is that it's according to Millennials and above. I'm... above... and I agree with most of the list. To be clear, these are not "Kids get off my lawn!" grumbles. These are things I embraced or at least tolerated in, say, my early ( Read more... )

On Friday I walked out of a meeting at work.

The situation was a sales colleague, Mike- I'll call him Mike because that's his name- and I were "discussing" the next steps we'd take in working with a prospective customer. I quote discussing because a proper discussion requires mutual respect. This interaction did not have that. Mike was instead ( Read more... )

My spouse got an unusual gift in the mail a few days ago. It was... a year of dicks.


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One week ago Israel was viciously attacked by the terrorist group Hamas, which is also de facto government of the Gaza Strip. Hamas fighters purposefully massacred hundreds of civilians in addition to waging attacks on military targets. Soon thereafter I started seeing the analogy in the news, "10/7 is Israel's 9/11." I was already thinking it ( Read more... )

I'm coming to hate drivers for Doordash and other delivery services. They act like doing their job is more important than everyone else at the store where they're picking things up. They park in handicap spaces and fire lanes. In the store, they walk around the line of customers waiting and wave their phones at the cashier, expecting immediate ( Read more... )

This past weekend the comic strip "Dilbert" was canceled, and its author, Scott Adams, effectively was, too. As I mentioned in a brief blog yesterday, these were consequences of Adams publishing video of himself going on a racist tirade ( Read more... )

I saw a car accident on Saturday when we were coming home from errands. Nobody was hurt... but the driver of one of the vehicles totally deserved what happened to his car ( Read more... )