Have you ever lost something and then spent the next ten years trying to find it? I have. It’s an essay about the fall of the Roman Empire. Did the average citizen know the empire had fallen? No. It took them about 200 years to figure out, but you’re just going to have to trust me because all the kings horses and all the king’s men haven’t been able to find that paper again.
Every December my partner and I make the drive down to the Warhammer Citadel in Grapevine, TX to play our end-of-year game. If you’re a fan of Warhammer but have never been to the Citadel, imagine a Games Workshop or Warhammer store that’s also a coffee shop. It’s the closest thing we have in North America to Warhammer World, but it’s closer to a normal Warhammer store than that statement might imply.
A few months ago I looked back at my first 30 days of tracking 100% of my time. Now I have about a quarter’s worth of data, and some patterns have emerged.
I’d like to talk a bit about my favorite Massively Multiplayer Online PvP Game: eBay
Often a man suffers destruction In order that another man Might enjoy well-being. Such is the nature of things! A courtier’s satisfaction. In enjoying kingly confidences In golden palaces And a King’ s own good fortune Are merely bubbles On the surface of a vast ocean Momentary and evanescent. If dictated by commiseration I were to be released And freed from execution I would not escape Death. Inseparable am I from Karma
Establishing a baseline for reviewing things can be difficult.
I’ve spent the last several weeks using Toggl to track 100% of my time, and the results have been interesting.
Banh Mi Burgers Important Note #1 - This is a draft recipe. I made it somewhat improvisationally, so the amounts are in many cases a rough guess. Please don’t consider this a bulletproof tested recipe. Important Note #2 - I tend to think of most larger recipes as a series of smaller recipes that get assembled, so this is presented in that way. Important Note #3 - I almost never add salt and pepper to taste to recipes as an instruction.
I had the great fortune to spend the last week or so sailing along Alaska’s inside passage on the NCL Jewel. Being the kind of person that I am, I gave myself a side-quest on day one: eat at and review each of the on-board dining options. I mostly succeeded, with two notable exceptions. It turns out a reservation at the Teppanyaki restaurant is incredibly difficult to score, and I simply ran out of time for the steakhouse.
個人サイト管理人に50の質問 50 Questions for Personal Site Administrators Shamelessly borrowed from bikobatanari.art/posts/202… who also provides context on where this trend originated. Please tell us your name and its origin. A couple of years ago I was trying to come up with a username. The kind someone else might have created in high school and stuck with for the next 20 years. I was looking for something that could represent me, wasn’t already taken everywhere, and wasn’t directly associated with my day job or anything I’ve done previously on the internet.
I back a lot of things on Kickstarter. Like. A lot of things. Especially during the annual ZineQuest, where indie TTRPG creators are encouraged to take a chance on the small, wild ideas that sometimes grow up to be Something Big. At PAX Unplugged I had the chance to speak briefly with one such creator, and they asked me what I looked for when I was deciding to back a project, so this post is written to them.
Back at home safely ensconced in my office, wearing the slanket, and it’s time to talk about Hawaii. This is going to be something of a journal post, while also exploring some thought processes out loud. Apologies in advance if that’s not your thing! How Did You End Up Going to Hawaii Anyway? Medium story short, it was originally a work trip. Having never been to Hawaii, or indeed to any “tropical” or “island” destination, I tacked on a short mini-vacation the weekend before the work portion.
A couple days belated, but last week was primarily about the run-up to Christmas. My routine for the last several weeks has been to wrap up dinner then settle on the couch with my Steam Deck, play something, and have a movie on in the background. I think as a result I’ve seen more movies in December than the preceding decade. In alphabetical order: 8-Bit Christmas (2021) A Christmas Story (1983) Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (1977) Frosty the Snowman (1969) Groundhog Day (1993) Home Alone (1990) How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) Klaus (2019) The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) The Santa Clause (1994) Scrooged (1988) Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987) A Very Murray Christmas (2015) White Christmas (1954) I have thoughts about most of them, but I think I can summarize and say that the only one I for sure wouldn’t watch a second time is the original Silent Night, Deadly Night, and that’s because the first 30-45 minutes of Part 2 are a direct re-telling of the original.