Mike fixed breakfast for us - excellent! This is typical of Mike, who always shows outstanding hospitality. When we finally got our act together, we headed out to Origins only to discover (midway there) that one of us is suffering from memory loss, so it was back to the house to retrieve my ID badge which was hanging from the doorknob where I'd put it so as not to forget it.
Random scribblings and thoughts about writing, publishing and the entire letters to dollars process. Includes copious notes about politics and everyday life.
Friday, June 17, 2016
Origins Gaming Convention 2016 - Day Two, Continued
Our final game of Day Two was played late in the evening at Mike's house. Cthulhu Wars is a complex, high strategy board game featuring outsize miniature things from the Lovecraft series of the same name. I was the King in Yellow and He Who Shall Not Be Named.
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| Hastur and the Yellow King |
Thursday, June 16, 2016
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.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
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.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
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.
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Real Estate and Truth in Advertising
Last Friday (June 3rd, 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.
Friday, June 3, 2016
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