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I took some time this morning to add photos to several of my Fotki albums, and I rearranged a bit. There's now a wargames folder (for the blurry or overexposed shots of miniatures), more pictures of cats (natch), a couple of birds, some interesting ice and snow, and pictures from a trip to Rock Creek Park with my friend Susanne and her dog Mango. I'll caption them when I have time.

you know, I wasn't going to go there...

But the bike ship where I got my bike and have until recently gotten it serviced emailed me a survey. And all the frustration and irritation of my last couple of visits have come back to me. So I replied: ( Read more... )

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courtesy of soccer_fox

Test out your Middle East/North Africa map skillz.

I got two wrong way 'round, other wise got them all slotted in, which is still not great for someone doing a degree with a focus on the ME. :-)

very cool model

Man devotes 30+ years to model of Second Temple

I'm impressed by his level of effort, but slightly baffled by this information, "Mr Garrard sculpted and painted 4,000 figures, measuring just half an inch and all wearing their correct costumes including 32 versions of Jesus."

and more pictures

snaps from WWII

A wargamer has posted pictures his dad took at Normandy and afterwards.

Wish my dad had left me some pictures of Assam, Kashmir, and Afghanistan...

I Can Haz Badjj?

Huzzah! Once again I have dodged the trick questions (well, most of them) and triumphed over the the screwy hypotheticals and passed the ref exam for grade 8. I got 6 questions wrong, for a score of 92%, and most of those were in the "are they asking me if you *can* or if you *should*?" department. Two I just had a total brainburp and gave identical, "equally wrong in both cases when they should have been the same" answers.

Now I just have to get in the right physical condition to run lines for 1-2 matches (I am *still* not going to volunteer to center a match, not yet) and the mental condition to be yelled at by angry players without losing it.