this is very sad

Lawyers Lay Waste to Military Models Industry ( Read more... )

this, on the other hand...

is just funny (though in a rather depressing way...)

SF beards in Afghanistan

Saturday morning/afternoon

Well, I had an OK day so far. I drove down to Woodbridge and played two battles in a new (to me, not newly published) ASL module, Scotland the Brave. Sadly, I did the 23rd Hussars and the Cameronians no favours and lost both scenarios (though the online database for the hobby suggests this is par for the course). I don't generally expect to win at ASL, but still, it's kind of depressing to lose two in a row in four hours. I picked up two new games (one on the French Revolution and one a compendium of games about ancient Rome), though not the one I was looking for. >:-< But I did finally exchange my new kettle for another of the same model which, I hope, will not leak.

I'm trying to decide if I want to go all the way into DC to see United play. This may seem revolutionary for anyone who knows me, but Nora is doing stuff with her mom, Chris and Mel are off who knows where, Jason is busy, and Justin may not make it either. I've kind of gone off the SE tailgates (especially since I feel slightly guilty for having stopped running them, but not guilty enough to go back and help out), so I'd be going off by myself for four hours (an hour there and back, at least, and about two hours of actual match) to see a game, and I'm just having trouble finding that an attractive idea right now. My house is nice right now, with cool wet green outside, complaining cats (dinner is needed, I am told), and a couch I could sit on and watch telly. No beer, but I shouldn't be drinking beer anyway right now. Grrr. Indecision.

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I was feeling kind of sorry I hadn't gone to the game as it began.

I am not feeling that way any longer. :-(

BTW, today's purchases

No nice shoes or high-quality linen apparel for me today, but I did acquire

Liberte, a game ont he French Revolution. This is a topic that gets lots of treatment, but either too simplistic (Guillotine, though fun) or too complex (Azure Wish's La Revolution Francaise; I don't think I could even get most of my game geek friends to play this, because they're not polisci geeks as well). I'm hoping Liberte is in between.

Rome, a collection of three Rome-based gamettes that cover arena racing, Roman politics, and the Punic Wars at a *very* simple level. I'm thinking this is a good crossover game to merge "game players" with wargamers.

We shall see...