Random Access

Thursday – 30 June 2011
This NBN Thursday comes to us with some high clouds over the mountains. But, it’s still a Thursday… which means only one more day in the work week. And, then my schedule does something lovely:

• Three-day weekend, followed by…
• Three-day work week, followed by…
• Another three-day weekend.

That comes under the heading of:

Last night was D&D 4.0 night with m3lodywise and company. It was also the last encounter of our current campaign, which – in video game terms – meant: End Boss Fight! We fought a mage and some of his minions. Things didn’t start out auspiciously for us. We didn’t take it as an ill omen, fortunately. A couple of rounds later, things started to turn our way.

And that’s when the lich showed up.

Bugger.

So, we changed tactics: Melee fighters went to tackle the mage and his cohorts, while the ranged attackers and our handy-dandy NPCs took on the lich. A couple of NPCs took one for the team, while fighting the lich. (The greater good…) We managed to take down the mage and the lich, as well as destroy the lich’ phylactery (think: “horcrux”).

Good guys: Eleventy billion
Bad guys: Two.

The game ran a little later than planned, but it was fun. And, all the players’ characters lived. Both of those – separately or together – are good things.

Stray Toasters

• Citing failed studies, FDA rejects breast cancer drug
• Milwaukee schools to lay off 354 teachers
• Wyoming’s Government Switches to Google Apps
• This LEGO Robot Makes Programmable Pancakes
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• Smartphones safer than desktops, but not without risks
• Wallace Schools “Mister Terrific”
• Od tireh od tireh.
  Kama tov yiheyeh.
  Bashana bashana haba’ah
  (Thanks for getting that song stuck in my head, Mom…)
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• Fed Halves Debit Card Bank Fees
• At 75, ‘Gone With the Wind’ Marks Yet ‘Another Day’

And that’s that.

Namaste.