Smudge Marks & Engel Werks Inside GMT Flash of Steel Wargame [space] Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hong Kong Wargamer Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsWell, lived through another Further Confusion. That shouldn’t be any kind of challenge, but then we keep getting sick in the middle of it…. Actually, we pretty much all got sick before the con, which should count as good planning,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I usually like to write a post around the new year talking about how the holiday season went and taking a look at what I did in LiveJournal over the past year. I’m also somewhat distractable, so it’s waited until[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It all started last November. Shortly after that adventure, I started having problems with Haruhi again. Occasionally, she would have trouble making the leap from BIOS to OS. Sometimes the initial boot would go fine, and when it got to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, it’s over. It’s all over. 2008 is now a part of history. Anyway, Christmas was small. We had planed on visiting Smudge’s parent for Christmas, but snow and Baron falling suddenly ill put an end to that. Dave being[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, I’m back home after the annual visit down south. Trip down was pretty smooth, with a very tiny amount of sprinkling as I entered the Grapevine. Parents are doing well, and are much more settled into the new homestead[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A few days ago, I was gifted/donated a computer. It would have been thrown out otherwise, and featured a better processor than I have, so I was happy to take it. Examination waited for the weekend. Physical work waited for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, many moons ago, my CD-ROM drive (yes, really) started having problems. Not recognizing disks correctly, thinking that the drive had been removed from the system (like a flash drive) in the middle of an operation. Finally, a couple months[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Been a busy weekend. Saturday was the Midsummer Art Festival at the Triton Museum. We did our usual thing and got out the pavilion and panels and set up a nice display. Friday had been a really hot day, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had the gang over for wargaming on Saturday (Mark, Patch and Jason). We decided to go for a four-player game of Onward Christian Soldiers (1st Crusade), the three of us having enjoyed our previous experience, and wanted to try it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shared files: SAGA FAIL Sharing a file is supposed to let several people open, work on, and update/save a file at the same time. A tall order, but somehow it’s always worked in Excel 2003. However, 2007 just breaks. Claims[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…