View From the Bushes

As was mentioned in the comments, due to some unfortunate illness on the part of my youngest, I didn't end up going biking Saturday morning, which was disappointing. I was actually quite looking forward to it. But I did play D&D twice, which was a lot of fun. I particularly enjoy the start of a new campaign; they're always full of such promise. I thought this one went pretty well, all things considered. It's always such a pain getting the party together. I know series where most of the first book is dedicated to getting all the characters together. But from a game standpoint, every minute you spend with just one character trying to introduce him is a minute every other player sits at the table bored.

I actually restarted something else over the weekend. I had been playing World of Warcraft in a trio with my brother-in-law (the tall one) and a friend. But I wasn't enjoying playing the paladin as much as I had enjoyed playing a warrior so I convinced them to start over with me as the warrior. I feel bad that I made them restart, but for me I am already much happier with this set-up than I was with the last. The problem was is that I have such a limited amount of time to play that I want to really optimize what time I have. In any case, I'm having fun now, course just as we get started the B.I.L. leaves for California.

Link-wise, slashdot had a link to the Top 10 technologies we miss. Manned exploration of space was fittingly #1. Elsewhere on the net, Christopher Hitchens had a great article on Iraq. Normally I would avoid linking to the political stuff, but I think this article raised some very interesting questions. I thought I'd go for the triple play and include a third link, but nothing's jumping out at me.

Very tired, but what's new?
Ross