View From the Bushes

Well I ran out during lunch today and picked up the three 3.5 books from my Friendly Local Gaming Store. I really wanted to get them earlier but I was torn by the desire to support the aforementioned FLGS. In any case this is what I was waiting for to put Wil's next adventure up, so hopefully that will go up tonight, though there's a bug making the rounds in my family and I think it may be my turn, but in any event it will definitely be up by Monday. I think I'll wait until I'm sure when it actually goes up before I shamelessly market it, but let's just say if you've ever wanted to wreak some major havoc in the city of Bluffside (or any city for that matter) this is the adventure for you.

If I haven't mentioned it already we'll be in booth #1441 at GenCon so make sure to stop on by. Anyone who mentions View from the Bushes will get to see me faint in amazement hit my head on one of the laptops and be wheeled out in a gurney. That's the kind of entertainment that you can't put a price on. Also the "Bluffside Bundle" contest we had going on is set to end before GenCon so I'll probably choose the winners on Wednesday (so if you wanted to get in you still have a couple of days). Of course this brings up the question of whether VFB will continue while I'm at GenCon. The answer is that it should. I would like to do a daily report, but depending on the reliablity of the hotels wireless internet and the schedule, who knows what might happen.

Obviously I can't go without mentioning todays stage in the Tour. It was a time trial. Often called "The Race of Truth" because there's no drafting, you can't hide, it's just you against the clock. In all the TdF's Lance Armstrong has won he's only lost one time trial and that was by ten seconds. Today he once again came in second but this time it was 1'35" to Jan Ullrich, who's not someone you ever want to give 1'35" to. Lance said that it was insanely hot (it was) and that he got behind on his hydration certainly the photo (third down on the left) of his salt caked lips indicates that might have been a problem. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that today and Alpe d'Huez are anomalies a couple of bad days. That he's going to ride away from everyone at least once in the Pyrenees and win the second time trial.

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Ross