View From the Bushes

Today I had a big deadline at my 9-5 job. Fortunately, it went about as smoothly as I think it's ever gone, so that was a welcome surprise. I only lasted till about around midnight on Friday; fortunately they were just about done so I didn't end up missing much. We were finishing up Atonement, one of the adventures off DireKobold. We were doing the final two encounters, which were particularly ill-suited to a group of D20 Modern characters. The first was a couple of Bone Golems, so you can imagine how effective bullets are against them, but then it got even worse when the next encounter turned out to be ghosts. Three rounds into twiddling my thumbs is about the time I decided to head home.

I finally did get a chance to play the miniature game with my kids over the weekend. I selected about 20 low point cost miniatures and had my kids put together a 30 point army. Then I put together a 30 point army and we went at it. I had to help them a lot with strategy. In the end, due to some questionable tactics on my part (like helping them with strategy), I lost, which caused them no end of glee, and quite frankly hurt my feelings. That's the last time I'll be doing that.

Hopefully it's not necessary to point out that last bit was sarcastic. In other news, it looks like the two Pioneer spacecraft are inexplicably slowing down. I guess theories abound, from suppositions about "Dark Matter" to wondering whether we understand gravity as well as we thought we did. It's kind of interesting to think of the Solar System as a bubble of normalcy while just outside its borders all sorts of things start to fall apart...

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