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The Rutles - Living In Hope YouTube video by cheeseandonionsohno

I'm dwelling in regret, but living in hope.

It does!

I'm not saying that if I were writing GURPS HOT SPOTS: THE SILK ROAD today, half of it would be based on this, but I'm not not saying it.

"Spit it out, Georgie. Staging a coup here."

Much Ado About Nothing, though Comedy of Errors has its virtues.

No plans, but seems likely. As I think I've warned @stevenmarsh.bsky.social, a lot of ideas for GURPS works spring out of wherever I happen to be in my reading cycle.

And I have JUST been looking into early modern and imperial mail networks and other systems of communication. Yoink!

To lose one valuable long-standing business can be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two looks like carelessness.

(Just had the anniversary of one of those.)

Thanks!

Oh, I must find that.

I mean, demonstrably true on grounds of architecture alone, but also this.

I feel that "They pay me in woims" could be a lost Tom Waits lyric.

Black and white photo, possibly taken in the 1950s, of a grinning white man with a receding hairline, wearing a light-colored suit, plaid bow tie, and round wire rimmed glasses. He does not resemble a lumberjack or pipefitter in any way.

Not rugged.

One was a train engineer, then fire chief for Ashland, Ky. Elements of rugged there, I suppose.

The other was chair of the psychology department at Yale. Nigh unto the platonic opposite of rugged.

Lots of my stuff here, including the Low Tech series, DF8, and most of the Hot Spots series. Buy early and often for all your GURPS and ttrpg needs.

How long till Vance proposes a meeting with the bishops at Canossa?

young tricolour husky sitting to attention on the banks of a bridge watching and listening intently to a group of very noisy ducks, likely the first he's ever seen after being in kennels for two years.

someone encountered their first ever ducks this evening

If they wanted beef they should have gone with Argentina.

Oh God, I've gone and given them an idea, haven't I?

Word has come that Marshal Andy has died, and somehow the Waffle House song is not available on YouTube.

(This is both regionally and temporally very specific; the rest of you can ignore it.)

I've been thinking a lot about "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr." recently. This news is the diametrical opposite of what I or anyone else needs right now.

That hospital is directly across the street from my son's doctor, and her Imagination Library sent him books for years. Can confirm she's the best.

GURPS Locations: The Tower of Octavius The Tower of Octavius – is this mysterious fortress a foreboding place of knowledge, a place of dread requiring brave heroes to cleanse, or a base of operations for a band of adventurers and their unu...

Also, way back in the day, he did the maps for my first longer-than-article-length GURPS project:

Mario Barbati is an excellent and prolific gaming cartographer, and this bundle is way more than worth it.

young tri-colour husky sitting with his paws overhanging the front edge of a sofa with a big orange throw on it.

a shade over 24h in his new home and he's decided my spot on the sofa's the best one #DailyRainbow

I want to say Traveller, though I'm not certain.

If we GenXers ever seem blase about existential threats, I must plead that this is not our first apocalypse.

I can't get there in any reasonable amount of time, but if anybody else in town is going to be around campus come sunup...

Let's face it, he hit the jackpot.

AND IT IS SQUAMOUSLY ADORABLE.