One of those truly excellent weekends
Friday I went to gaming at Mark and Lauren's. (I host gaming every Sunday, but I go to their place for more once or twice each month.) We discovered that Descent is horribly weighted against the...
View ArticleDevil's Advocate #1: Infinite worlds? (Part 1) Wellll...
When most people these days think of multiple universes, they think of the "Many-Worlds Theory." It basically says that every time an event could go in more than one way, it actually goes both ways,...
View ArticleRainfurrest 2013
Well, RF is on this weekend. I'm looking forward to seeing the con from a new perspective: that of the average attendee. :)
View ArticleRainfurrest 2013, Days 0 and 1
Day 0 (Wednesday)Did my normal day type stuff. Went shopping. Met Phil Geusz at about 8 PM for dinner. Since he hadn't eaten all day, due to that whole "plane" thing, we went where we knew there were...
View Articlenot happy
Just after Rainfurrest, Fox came down with something. It knocked him out of work for a week. The next weekend, I got it. it didn't hit me as hard... but it still caused me to miss work. Tuesday,...
View ArticleWhooda Thunkit?
I'd kind of given up on ever getting married or having kids. The girlfriends I've had in the past have all proved a poor match in one way or another, and I'm not big on the social scene so I wasn't...
View ArticleConcerts and shows! Yes, plural. Of each.
Earlier this week, Heather asked if I was interested in going to a concert held by Switchfoot. Her friend had won some free tickets in a radio giveaway, but couldn't go due to being in Hawaii being the...
View ArticleDevil's Advocate #2: Infinite worlds? (Part 2) I Don't Think So!
In a previous post, I pointed out that the "infinite worlds" of Many-Worlds Theory is not, in truth, infinite. Staggeringly huge, yes, but not infinite.But I don't think the Many-Worlds theory is...
View ArticleEarly XMas
Well, Christmas is this Wednesday, and I usually work Wednesdays. This one will be no exception, so that means I do the whole gifts and gatherings and food thing either early or late. In most cases, I...
View ArticleWell, It HAS been a while, hasn't it?
My last entry was December 23, 2013. That's... let's see... one, two... over 20 months ago. Why so long?Well, the simple answer is that I saw my journal as something of a chronicle of my life. If I...
View ArticleLife update
And now, after making that last post — in which I declare that I won't be posting much about how my life is going — I'm now going to do exactly that. After all, I only said I'd not be bothering with...
View ArticleWhat's so bad about being a fair-weather fan?
Well, my local NFL team, the Seahawks, lost another game yesterday. That puts them at 2-4, which means they can probably lose, at most, one more game this season if they want to reach the playoffs....
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