Oaks Day was, indeed, reading day. I finished a Goodreads giveaway, Eirelan, and reread parts of Edge of the Empire. We closed up SPHIS around 2PM and I headed back to Cannons Lane and knocked out a batch of WoW quests ( Read more... )

Screw buying a Kindle. The iPad app works really well, and it's not too bright to read in bed, so I'll spend the $120, when I have it to spare again, on e-books ( Read more... )

This should be my last-to-night in Lexington. If things go as planned, tomorrow I'll get the last of my material possessions boxed and packed and take them to the farm or to a storage facility somewhere ( Read more... )

The good part of Saturday was getting in a game of Trail of Cthulhu, the first time I've played it under the Purist setting. It was suitably bleak and anticlimactic. The Investigators found things, and those things were horrible, and the Investigators did not survive intact.

Scoring a copy of Fortress America at half-price was pretty nice, too.

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Sometimes the universe just smiles on you. Bought a couple of books at Joseph-Beth today; it's customer appreciation day, and I had a coupon for 25% off one title. The purchase pushed me past a threshold on my customer rewards account, and I got another coupon for $10 off a future purchase ( Read more... )

Fire Academy continues to be a great experience. This week, we got a look at airpack systems. Obviously, they provide breathable air to firefighters in smoky or otherwise toxic environments. What they also do is alert nearby firefighters to an immobilized firefighter, share air between firefighters, and flat-out keep the wearer alive.

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Hey, folks - recommend me some good horror-fantasy.

Still reading The Submarine, and it led to an interesting conversation with one of my co-workers - turns out he was a P-3 crewman back in the '80s. Pretty neat.

My copies of Dark Heresy and World of Darkness: Urban Legends came in. I haven't had a chance to give them much more of a cursory looking-over, but I think these are going to be really good ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty good, if extremely introverted, weekend.  Started reading Red Harvest.  Worked out some of the history for my Star Wars character.  Watched rather a lot of Star Wars on Spike.  Flew a couple of Ace Combat missions.  Started looking into replacing this ThinkPad with a netbook of some stripe.  Received my work order for a Spycraft ( Read more... )

The Twilight: 2013 game wrapped up early.  Not sure what's coming next, who the GM's going to be, anything.  I'd be happy enough not picking up the Viking hat right away, since I'm already running Spycraft for the UKMSU.  Have to see how discussions and recruitment go in the coming weeks, I guess.  I'm of a mind to try a World of Darkness game of ( Read more... )