Origins Gaming Convention 2016 - Day Two

Our first event of the day was 4778-Cthulhu Madness Matrix Game run by Rogue Judges.  It was a complete bust.  Cthulhu Madness is an extremely simple story telling game in which the players are given a set of characters, a location (Boston, MA in our case), and a very generalized path towards a conclusion.  The game might have worked if all the players were fairly creative adults, but if you add a precocious, special snowflake 12-year-old along with a few not terribly bright teenagers into the mix, well... let's be charitable and blame circumstances beyond our control.

Origins Gaming Convention 2016 - Day One

Our goal for day one was to pick up our Origins Official ID Pass and our preregistered game event tickets.  The process is that you buy these items online, weeks in advance.  When you arrive at Origins, you stand in line for the preregistration window and present your receipt to the nice volunteer manning the antique laptop, who laboriously looks up your name, and (if all goes well) gives you your Origins Gaming Convention packet.  Then you move along to another window to get your event tickets.

Origins Gaming Convention 2016 - Day Zero

Dave and I left Toledo around 1:00 and arrived at Mike's house around 4:00, mainly due to construction delays and associated traffic.  Mike was pleased to see us.

Real Estate and Truth in Advertising

Last Friday (June 3^rd, 2016), I drove to Columbus to look at a condominium I hoped to purchase and eventually live in.  The list price was $86,500, which is within my means.  More importantly, the Home Owner's Association fee was $68 per month, meaning that it doesn't cost a fortune to live there, and the property taxes for 2015 were $1,290.  The pictures on the web looked good, so off we go.  Mind you, I'm still beat half to death from dealing with the tree that fell on the barn, but I'm going to make the drive anyway.  I'm enthused about this, as it looks like I've found a place to live.

The Lord Provides

My thanks to brothers Frank and John Fischer for turning this:

At the Job Start

The Lemonade Stand is Closed

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.  Right?  Words to live by, a tried and true saying, and other worn out clichés.  Except as of this afternoon the lemonade stand is closed, there is no reopening date, and this has nothing to do with the health department - which I suppose is a refreshing change.

Just look at this little surprise that was handed to me sometime last night.

Sylvania Ohio Blues Festival 2016

I went to the Sylvania Blues Festival last Thursday, as held at the Chandler Cafe in downtown Sylvania.  The show started around 6:00 PM, but heavy weather moved in a little after 7:00.  I got back to my car in the proverbial nick of time.