View From the Bushes

I just got off the phone with the cartographer and apparently, in addition to his hard drive, the lightning bolt fried his scanner and his DSL modem. His new estimate is another two to three days. Obviously this sucks, particularly since I would like to just put this adventure to bed and move on. Not that I'm not working on other stuff -- the Midnight adventure is coming along and I'm shooting for a simultaneous release of two Xenogenic NPC's over the 4th of July weekend. I took a brief break, just now, to check my e-mail and there was a Gamespot newsletter which mentioned that Half-Life 2 is now tentatively slated to go gold in August, approximately one year later than originally expected. Suddenly the two week delay in getting the adventure out doesn't seem so bad.

In other news Wired ran an article where they tracked down the originator of the Bill Gates will pay you to forward this e-mail chain letter. I've always thought that it would be kind of cool to be able to start a chain e-mail, but then my wife reminds me that I should be using my powers for good, not evil. To which I retort, "That's not what Machiavelli said!"

Spider-Man 2 comes out tomorrow; maybe I'll take a break and go see it, though I'm mostly allergic to seeing movies on opening day, so probably not. It's getting amazing reviews so I imagine that I'll see it sooner rather than later, but you never know, X2 was really well reviewed and it took me two months to see it. In any case, my continued apologies for the adventure. I imagine that I'm as, if not more, frustrated then you about it.

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Ross