winter break

Though I didn’t make the final table, last night’s Poker Smoker was a lot of fun. I got a box of Camacho cigars, just for showing up! And if you haven’t ever been up to Yamashiro, (until last night, I hadn’t — even though I’ve lived here for nearly 33 years) I suggest adding it…

On the way home from school today, Nolan and I were listening to Ethel on XM 47. A band that I am not familiar with, called “The Distillers”, did their rock and roll thing. It was pretty cool, so I turned it up, and took advantage of the break in our storm to open all…

The Guinness joke made it to Fark, and the comments thread there is filled with some of the absolute best “a guy walks into a bar . . . ” jokes of all time. It could quite possibly be the finest collection of bar-related humor on the Internet. Here’s one of my own, that I’m…

Last weekend, I spent the bulk of Saturday at my friend Sean and Caryn’s gallery, where I volunteered at a show called “Cruel and Unusual“, benefitting the West Memphis Three . There were tons of volunteers, and we formed different “teams”. The teams started out with official-sounding names like Team Parking Lot and Team Set…

My friend Martin, who is in my gaming group, wrote a PDF for Mongoose called “The Quintessential Aristocrat,” and it was just published this week. I think a few gamers read WWdN, and they may want to take a look at it. Martin’s an incredibly creative guy (sadly, our characters don’t know each other in…

It usually takes about 2 hours to get to San Diego, so Anne and I left at 10, leaving ample time to arrive for my 1:30 signing at Mysterious Galaxy. We hit our first traffic jam in Norwalk, on the 5, where it took thirty minutes to go ten miles. No wreck, no construction, just…