View From the Bushes

Before I got married I had my wife (verbally) sign a pre-nup. There were two conditions of the pre-nup: no sharing of dairy products and no sharing of potato products. In other words, it was not okay if she reached over and took one of my fries. In the nearly nine years since then, I have mellowed substantially, but the no potato product pre-nup has become legendary. Now that you have sufficient background, I can tell you a story from Friday's D&D session.

Friday was the 'family campaign' and we rotate who's in charge of dinner every time we meet. The couple in charge of dinner on Friday had purchased KFC (as an aside, the very first KFC in the world is less than a mile from my house -- it was just barely torn down and is going to be rebuilt), three buckets of chicken and a couple of things of potato wedges. My brother-in-law had gotten a plate of chicken and potato wedges, then he had sat down next to me, before getting up again to get a drink. Looking over at his plate I saw the larget potato wedge I had ever seen. It was like rather than slicing a potato they had just peeled it. It called to me. When I picked it up to look at it, the world momentarily darkned as it blocked out the sun. I exclaimed, "Look at the size of that potato wedge and promptly took a bite." My brother-in-law saw me from across the room and his face coalesced into a steel mask of pure rage, an expression so funny that the whole experience nearly proved lethal as bits of potato kept going down my wind pipe while I laughed to the point of wetting myself. In my defence I only had half, and then I gave the rest to my nephew (his son). And yes, you could quite accurately accuse me of being a hypocrite, but it was worth it.

Yesterday, I was in at work for eight hours while we replaced the UPS in our server room. The network guys decided that this was a good opportunity to completely redo the network cables. As a result, there have been all kinds of network problems for most of the day. My hope is that now that the quarterly publication date has passed and the web servers having settled down a bit, and I don't have something going every single evening (like last week), I can dig in and get some DireKobold stuff done. I'm still waiting to hear back from FFG for final approval on Wil Upchurch's Midnight adventure. But I'll probably start working on another adventure and assuming no great calamaties at work, I may have a Xenogenic NPC out this week as well.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross