View From the Bushes

I didn't have a phone number for the cartographer, but I did have his address, so using the power of Super Pages! (which in my experience is much, much better than Qwest's Dexonline) I found his number and called him. As it turns out, I was right -- he was very apologetic and not only that, he went on to explain that he'd had some pretty serious health issues plus, as required by Murphy, his hard drive had been fried by a lightning strike. I figured it had to be some kind of emergency, because in general he's been very, very reliable.

In any event, he's supposed to get his new computer today and he's promised to have the maps to me by Saturday, so that's what we're looking at in terms of release date for the next adventure. I did put the snippet up last night, which includes some of Chad's great art and covers the opening of the adventure and first encounter with a bodak and a chimera (though not at the same time), so hopefully that will tide people over until Saturday.

I finally got around to watching the copy of Bubba Ho-Tep I picked up the other day, and it did not disappoint. I'll have to watch it again since I was trying to finish up the adventure snippet and stay awake yesterday evening after I'd spent most of it watching my kids, which wouldn't have been so bad if the youngest hadn't started screaming anytime she was anywhere other than on my lap hitting random keys. But the movie was not only funny, which I expected, but it was also moving, which was something I didn't quite see coming.

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Ross