View From the Bushes

Well, as pointed out to me by a faithful DireKobold subscriber, the treasure is screwed up on the NPC. My apologies, the plague I was dealing with over the weekend prevented me from doing the validation I would have liked. I have spent about an hour looking into it, and it turns out that the first time an adventure is generated, it generates the treasure correctly, but any time it's generated after that it goes back to the value it used the very first time around. So it's obviously a caching issue, something I did differently with the NPC that I didn't do in a normal adventure, but I've yet to figure out what, but I'll keep you posted.

Having given myself a headache trying to figure out the caching issue, I'm not exactly in a great condition to finish the rest of the blog, but I'll soldier on regardless. In the news it appears that the man who challanged the phrase 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegience has no lack of things to complain about. Apparently, his custody of the daughter, on whose behalf he has standing to sue, is tenuous at best. His opinion of the subject is:

...that the entire family law system is wrongly premised on "the best interests of the child," when what should really count is what he says is the parents' constitutional right to equal time.

Sounds like a great guy. For my part, I'm of the opinion that the world in general and the U.S. in particular would be a lot better off if people were just a little more flexible. So you're an atheist who doesn't like any reference to God? Fine, is it really going to kill you if the word is said in your presence? Probably not, so just let it slide...

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross