Hi,

More books.  More reviews.

First up:  The Heap by Sean Adams.  In the near future Los Verticales, was a soaring city in a skyscraper.  Then it all came tumbling down and now a group of Dig Hands works out of a makeshift camp in the desert to clear away the debris and salvage anything they can.  Orville Anders is a long-time dig hand.  He's ( Read more... )

Hey,

My reading pace has been kinda shot this past year. Not entirely sure why that is. In any event, I have been reading books but have yet to deliver the verdict on them to you. More egregiously, I haven't even done a 2019 round up (which is at least as much for my benefit as yours -- what was that one book I read years ago?).

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Hey,

So last week, I took a very short trip down to DC to cross off a long-standing bucket list item -- taking in the Inca Road exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC (it's part of the Smithsonian).

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Hey,

So last Wednesday, my company laid off a huge swath of its employees.  I was one of them.

It was a bit sudden but the company had been having trouble over the past year so I wasn't surprised that it happened, just the timing.

I'm still trying to right the ship a bit and get on the job hunt.

If you're curious, I do software programming, ( Read more... )

Hey,

I was on vacation recently and long plane rides are a great way to knock off a few books. So let's take a look:

Pre-vacation, I wanted a bit of palate cleanser from the fantasy coming up so I blew through Galaxy's Edge: Legionnaire by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole. It's the opener to a military sci-fi universe that ranges from deep space ( Read more... )

Hey,

Today I learned that Wendy's (yes, the hamburger chain) has released an RPG.  It's short, but fairly complete.

Is it good?  Who knows? (probably not)  Do I want to play a one-shot?  Dear reader, you know I do.

Check it out here.

Later
Tom
 

 
Hey,

Did you know there's a Chuck Tingle "Tingleverse" role-playing game?

Well you do now.  I...I'm so tempted to pick this up, because I just have to know.

They've also written a book called Not Pounded in the Butt by Anything:  Six Platonic Tales of Non-Sexual Encounters which such a delightful title, I am also tempted to pick *that* up.

later
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Hi,

I've set up a bucket list of things I'd like to try and get done in the next year to 2 years.  The items on the list run the gamut of prosaic to logistically arduous, but all of them seem do-able within the time frame so I'm really making an effort to get things knocked off the list.

And the purpose of this post (and hopefully others in the ( Read more... )

Hey,

Got some more reading done so let's discuss:

First up:  Priest of Lies by Peter McLean.  This is the follow-up to last year's excellent Priest of Bones.  You've got Tomas Piety and his fellow veterans, back from the war and restoring the his family's criminal empire in their hometown.  Along the way, Tomas got married to a royal spy to ( Read more... )