My pappy said son you're going to drive me to drinking...

Hey folks, Bill Kirchen is going to be at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley on September 29th.

Anybody interested in going?

A belated thank you or two.

docwebster did in fact get his feed running last night, and I hung out in IRC while listening to his show. He played the entire Grateful Dead show from the Henry J. Kaiser on November 7th,m 1987. This was by far the best show I ever attended and as I listened the memories came flooding back. Especially the know-it-all who kept insisting there was no way they would play I Need A Miracle just before the band ripped into it out of the Drums/Space jam. Thanks, Doc, and I look forward to the care package.

Also I got a surprise in the mail - a copy of Madagascar. Thanks Cindy!

Today I'm doing some cleaning, and hopefully getting some writing done.

An amusing moment this morning. I don't normally drive our car; it is mainly Kirsten's, and since I drive for a living I'm more than happy to let her chauffeur me around. But today I needed to run down to the store for a couple of things and laundry quarters, so I drove. Going from an International 4400 flatbed to a Ford Taurus was a bit of an adjustment. I had to remind myself that I don't need to let the battery warm up, and I was really flustered by how low my point of view was - I'm used to looking over cars as I drive. At the store, I automatically reached over to pull the knob that sets the brakes in my truck. Muscle memory is a wonderful thing.

Speaking of Kiri, heard from her a couple of times. She should be at the site now. Hope she'shaving a great time.

More campaign ideas.

I've long wanted to do a "weird space" campaign, set somewhere where the normal rules of the universe don't apply. pocket universes, mystical spaces, places like that. I've also had a desire to combine swashbuckling, space opera, and great quests into a game. Today I've been reading through some old Sluggy Freelance story lines and rediscovered the Oceans Unmoving saga. I think this might be the thing for me.

( On Timeless Space and the Oceans Unmoving )

So, a very interesting setting. Lots of holes (where does water come from for farming and drinking was one question that popped into my head) but for a good game of Timeless Space Opera and Piracy on the Oceans Unmoving who needs all the details? This is also a setting custom made for GURPS. There are so many plots to follow... try to find Teknokon One and escape. Foil the plots of Sir John Jacobs and his right-hand witch Lady Noga as they try to rule timeless space. Learn the secret of the Teknokons, and perhaps the secret behind the Oceans Unmoving! Cutlasses and Computers, Ho!

I'd have to kludge together some rules for personal time, and the effects of losing time, but that should be too hard (base it on mass, perhaps, with different constants for plants, animals, and sapients.)

Speak of kludges, this might work as a game using kLoOge.Werks. It would mean one hell of a lot of work, but the chance to actually game again would make it worth it.

So now a poll

[Poll #808124]

OK, somebody explain this to me.

Since Kiri isn't here to explain Geek Wizardry to me.