2011 wasn't the worst of years, but it wasn't the best either. It was up and down, sweet and sour. I started the year living in Austin and working a day job at Vigil Games as lead writer on the Warhammer 40K MMO. I'm ending it back in Seattle with my family and I'm pretty damn happy to have reunited with Nik and Kate on a permanent basis. I don't ( Read more... )

Saturday was Dragonmeet. Since it's one day show, I made sure to get up early and fortify myself with a classic English breakfast in the hotel's restaurant. This was such a calorie fest I skipped lunch, but that was fine because it let me spend all day at the con. I had two seminars to do. The first was a general Green Ronin Q+A in the early ( Read more... )

Last week on Thanksgiving I was flying to London instead of packing away turkey and  stuffing. I had been invited to a one day convention called Dragonmeet that dates back to the 80s. Nicole and I had gone in 2002 but I hadn't had the chance to go back until this year. It was a whirlwind trip but I squeezed a lot in and had an excellent time. I had ( Read more... )

The last two months has been one the most intense periods of travel and activity of my life. This is how it went down ( Read more... )

In 1990 I spent a couple of months of the summer traveling Europe with my girlfriend Stacey and our friend Kathy. We started in Scotland, moved down to England, and then over to the Continent, where it was youth hostels and Eurail all over. We visited many countries and had a great time. One place we didn't get to, however, was Prague. It was on my ( Read more... )

I was in Las Vegas last week for GTS, the main trade show for the hobby game industry. This was the first time I've been able to go in 3-4 years, since it never seemed worth burning vacation days for when I was working at Flying Lab. We did the show lean and mean this year, with just Hal and I there to rep for Green Ronin. I wish Nicole could have ( Read more... )

Nicole and I are in Vegas for the Diamond/Alliance Open House. We had yesterday free, as our set-up took all of half and hour and we did that today. We're feeling rather done with Vegas, except for the fine dining. If we were super rich, it'd be another story, but we've pretty much done the stuff we are interested in and can afford. We decided to ( Read more... )