Dark Alex's Really Long Post Thread.

[316zombie]

in response to your first paragraph...no. yes. yes. work. no one.

[Alex]

Got Ash's appointment to get his thumb looked at. It is the morning I finish a week on guard duty, so I'll need to go straight from a 12 hour shift up to Aberdeen with him.

Tomorrow morning I'll be up early to head up to Aberdeen airport to meet Pernille and her kid, Phillip.

I see Budweiser is starting to start an intergalactic war. They are offering free beer to any aliens who escape Area 51.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/18/us/area-51-bud-light-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3caA6WRlw9scwUQKOyEglLlghUQskzrgCCfmeygkWYtimDUjAxHCKXo_s

If I was an alien and you handed me a bud light, I am pretty sure I'd take that as a decleration of war.

[Alex]

Been away for a whole, mostly because I needed a break, but partly also because three of the five computers I have in the house stopped working for various reasons. Going to pick up a new laptop next month. I am operating on my emergency laptop at the moment, which is a good computer for when I am traveling but I dislike using it for extended periods for various reasons. I am not exactly back here, but I am not gone either.

Just hanging around in Purgatory I guess.

Ash had his visit to the hospital. The problem with his hand is a bit more complicated than we had hoped and not such an easy fix, but it does seem to be fixable so that is at least good news. I got a huge new desk for the man cave which necessitated remodeling the whole room, but I now have my stereo and laptop on it with enough room to store all my paints and have room to work on the figures I am currently painting (currently models from the 1920's or so for reasons I may (or may not) touch on later.

Going to see Ozzy on his final tour, the tickets have been purchased and time off work has been booked. Mind you, I also went to see him on his final tour back in '92 or thereabouts. Damn fine gig it was too, well except for the support band who were just boring. I fell asleep during their act (the band was called D.A.D. which stood for Disneyland After Dark). Got Gary Numan coming up later this month too, which I am looking forward too. Never seen him before although I've been a fan since I was a child. As much as I like the older stuff, it is his newer music I am more looking forward to hearing live.

Debating picking up a few beers for tonight or not. Oh yeah, I got my beer fridge out of retirement and it is now sitting once more in my man cave, beneath the enormo-desk and beside my vinyl albums. Still putting some of the room back together, but I am liking the man cave even more than I did before.

[Svengoolie 3]

Glad to see you're back.  Sorry for your kid's prpblems. Hope he'll be ok.

[Rev. Powell]

Debating picking up a few beers for tonight or not.

[Trevor]

So hot here that this teetotaler might join you for a cold beer 

[Alex]

So one of the things I was doing while I've been away was sorting out my DVD cases. Really wishing they came in the same size boxes as CD's and then this lot would take up a lot less room. This is around 95% of the DVD's I own.




As to beers tonight, well...



That is me working on number three.

[Svengoolie 3]

Alex if you  get about 6 more DVDs you collection will be so massive it will undergo gravitational collapse and become a singularity that   couild eventually swallow earth.  Might be time to look into going digital.

[Allhallowsday]

Nice to see you back, Alex. 

[Alex]

Picked up some new DVD's yesterday. Every remaining episode of Dad's Army, which Kristi has never seen, Ruthless People, Sparticus. Couple of others whose names I disremember.

Been working on a special roleplaying scenario for Samhain. Doing a lot more work than I normally do for a scenario, engaged the services of a local artist to draw a period map of the village (circa 1913) and portraits of the player's characters. I've been painting up models for the session. Discovered I have a small army of nun figures, but not a single priest so I am improvising there a little. This isn't something I would normally do, but I've written the adventure so that if the party does everything you would expect them to do, then they will fail and bad things happen.

Very bad things indeed.

Anyway, I've set it in the middle of rural Wales and since it is a one-shot (adventure designed to be completed in a single session), created some pre-generated characters, each of whom has a reason to be there. We have a priest, a nun, a banker and an antiques dealer who meet in a train station and can be joined by an aristocrat and a serving girl later.

Sitting down to watch Millenium. Got the first three seasons, but never seen them before.

Funny how some people are so desperate for attention that they thrive on any they can get, even negative attention.

[Alex]

So I joined a roleplaying group at the local wargaming club playing 5th edition D&D. Not my ideal version to play, I find character development too limited and the lack of prestige classes doesn't help this. The group is also only playing once a month, but hey it is face to face gaming and that is a start.

[Trevor]

Picked up some new DVD's yesterday. Every remaining episode of Dad's Army, which Kristi has never seen, Ruthless People, Sparticus.

Those titles: I never knew those were Dad's Army episodes 

[ER]

So I joined a roleplaying group at the local wargaming club playing 5th edition D&D. Not my ideal version to play, I find character development too limited and the lack of prestige classes doesn't help this. The group is also only playing once a month, but hey it is face to face gaming and that is a start.

Is there much interest around you in the OSR movement, which plays only the first edition?

[Alex]

There could be, I don't know anyone playing 1st though. Mostly its 5th.

[Svengoolie 3]

Picked up some new DVD's yesterday. Every remaining episode of Dad's Army, which Kristi has never seen, Ruthless People, Sparticus. Couple of others whose names I disremember.

I'm telling you keep getting dvd's and your collection is going to collapse into a gravitational black  hole  andmsicu you out of this universe.

Useless thastcs why you're going for .