the Great Clear-Out, Step One, a preview

OK, so I'm determined to start getting rid of some of the wargaming/roleplaying/general hobby material things that I've decided not to keep, which are cluttering up our project room/study. I'm hoping I may get a start on auctions this weekend, but to begin with I will post here, in case any of my friends want some of these things. Easier and happier to pass them on to folks I know...

I don't have a full list yet, but just from the boxes I began unpacking today, I can tell you what some of the topics to be touched on are:( Read more... )

Also, just to amuse the perhaps-not-so-gaming part of my audience, I also have two issues of that classic 'Babylon 5: The Official Monthly Magazine' to dispose of and...wait for it... issues 55 through 62 of 'Tournaments Illustrated' (yes, parts of 1980-1982). These last, I confess, I'm almost tempted to keep; where else do you find articles on Elizabethan vocal music, medieval contraception, the invention of the binary code, the history of chess, treen drinking vessels, making mead, or the origin of postal services? But someoen would probably consult them more often than I...

oh, and...

I will also be emptying out my card game collection (the only people I regularly played with are Mike, who moved to Japan, and Melissa, who is becoming a vagabond!) They include:

Legend of the Five Rings (fantasy medieval Japan)
Dune
7th Sea (fantasy pirates)
Babylon 5
Warhammer 40k
WarCry (Warhammer fantasy)
F. A. Premier League (soccer)
Legensd of the Burning Sands (Arabian Nights fantasy)

unable ... to...process...brain...shutting...down

Bush to cite US's Vietnam War experience as a reason to stay in Iraq (no, it's not the Onion...)

one of what will hopefully be a countless host of explanations why this is the most assinine thing anyone has said since Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick said "I'm ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."