View From the Bushes

Unless I find some really convenient way to post while I'm at GenCon, this will be the last entry till Monday. And by really convenient I mean the hotel having wireless, which in this day and age should be fairly common. However, my experience is that even when a hotel says that it has a wireless internet connection, 9 times out of ten it doesn't work for any number of reasons, from "temporary" downtimes, non-existent range, misconfiguration, etc., etc. So we'll see -- certainly it would be easier to do some kind of GenCon report if I could actually do it day by day, rather than trying to regurgitate everything in one chunky mass of chain-mail bikinis, strange German board games, increasingly desperate D20 releases (The Complete Book of Hobgoblin Adolescence) and sleep deprived role-playing sessions.

In preperation for GenCon I was going to read Dungeon Magazine's "Adventure Path" series. So I set about gathering up all the installments which were spread across ten or so seperate magazines. After the first sweep I had all the installments but the fourth one, so then I really turned the place upside down and after this more comprehensive search I had assembled every Dungeon Magazine from #90 (I have a ton of others, but I was restricting my search) up through the most recent one, with the exception of #104, which is, of course, where the fourth installment of the Adventure Path is located.

I'm not sure how much situations like this annoy the rest of you, but in my heart I'm a completist. I want to have the whole series, the complete collection, the entire set, and the annoyance at having this one missing magazine from the beautiful stack of magazines at the side of my desk drove me nuts. To the point, and I know people are going to have a hard time believing this, that I almost cleaned my office (if I had actually had the 12 hours it would have taken, I would have). Finally, there's a humorous thread over on fark discussing how the New York Jets can't find hotel rooms in Indianapolis because GenCon is this weekend.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross