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I buy my reading glasses at the Dollar Store. If a pair gets broken or lost, no big deal - they're easily replaced. Johnathan

I flew on an all-day courier mission today, so I went through the first two novels in Richard Avery's "Expendables" series. The main concept is a small group of people, many of whom would have been in prison for life otherwise, are sent to explore potentially dangerous new planets to see if...

Wait, we killed...a simulacrum? Johnathan

Hmm, good point. I guess the milestone yesterday was that I finally noticed. Johnathan

I'm reading a novella I picked up at a bookstore simply because it caught my eye: The Luminous Fairies and Mothra, the novella which formed the basis for the movie Mothra. It's a translation by Jeffrey Angles, based on the original work by Shin'ichiro Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie...

I was going to suggest a fiendish elasmosaurus. I picked up a Jurassic Park elasmosaurus toy for use in my own D&D game, and while it's much larger than it should be per the 3.5 D&D stats, it looks awesome on the game table. (I advanced my stats by quite a bit to account for its much larger...

I hit a weird milestone today. My boss is a 40-year-old Air Force lieutenant colonel. As of today, I have officially been married for two more years than he's even been alive: I got married in 1984, and he was born in 1986 (the same year as my youngest son). Johnathan

In yesterday's "Down to Erthe" game session, the PCs: Learned there were mongrelfolk gathering in the sewers, being trained as thieves by an unauthorized new guild Went into the sewers to check it out, wherein the human monk almost immediately ran afoul of a crocodile, and had to be rescued by...

Today's adventure stank! (Location: sewers.) Johnathan

My gaming group opted to remain with 3.5 despite the several new editions that have come out since: we're still enjoying 3.5, I have enough source material to keep me gaming in 3.5 for the rest of my natural lifespan, and we really haven't seen any reason to change. I'm now running my fourth...

I had another of my quarterly 5-day business trips this week, so I got a lot of reading done in airports, on planes, and in my hotel room. Here's what I read this past week: Harold, the first novel by comedian Stephen Wright, a book that could only have been written by Stephen Wright. It...

There's also the last lines during the intro: No. 6: "Who are you?" No. 2: "The new Number Two." No 6: "Who is Number One?" No. 2: "You are Number Six." No 6: "I am not a number! I am a free man!" No. 2: (laughs) Guess what one little comma (or brief pause) does to the script? No...

My understanding was "Every Breath You Take" was about Big Brother from George Orwell's novel 1984. Johnathan

For me, it's Yellow Submarine: eminently quotable, ridiculously nonsensical (yet it follows its own internal logic), and excellent music from the Beatles at my favorite point in their careers. The fact the animation is unlike any other animated movie I've ever seen is an additional plus. Johnathan

ADVENTURE 15: DOWN THE ROAD A BIT PC Roster: Adrielle, human/merfolk scout 3 Brendan Conaill, human monk 3 Kruz Taszan, changeling rogue 3 Shiroko, snow fox hengeyokai wu jen 3 NPC Roster: Hoppy, mongrelfolk adept 3 Game Session...