You will fight….

Demon snow angels! Looks like we’ll have a bit of snow for the Spring 2011 Convergence. It’s currently snowing above 6000 feet and predicted to continue throughout the day and into tomorrow. The accumulation could be significant. Somehow snow is always an issue when I bring along home brewed beer. Very curious.

Intersection of I-70 & CO103

The current weather reports are a variation of this one:

Today…Widespread snow. Snow accumulation of 5 to 10 inches. Highs 29 to 39. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph.

Tonight…Snow showers likely. Additional snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches. Lows 19 to 29. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph after midnight. Chance of snow 60 percent.

The snow should make for an interesting drive up the mountain tonight.

Inspiration from History

I’ve barely begun to dig into the Abandoned Communities site. Just the top few pages are a treasure trove of inspiration for villages and towns. Here are a few samples, taken from the site, with no context.

Look cool?

Couldn’t exist. Just not possible.

Or Did It?

Okay, maybe it did. Still, there cannot be that many cool places from history.

How about Wharram Percy?

Yep, it existed too.

Aerial Photo of Wharram

Head on over to Abandoned Communities and dig into the details. You will not be disappointed.

The lengths you go to for friends

Just had to add these for Randall. I think the camera adds 10 pounds. Yeah, yeah, I’m sure of it.

Convergence: Spring 2011

Take #3 at the Field Station for the Convergence gathering. My prior pictorial post got mangled beyond belief when I tried to update it with the original pictures. So here’s a new gallery of photos. T minus 7 days.

Heritage Import Complete

I’m a bit cross-eyed but I cleared out all the pending posts from my time over at KORPG Games. Fixing the media links was painful. I left a number of broken links in place. I may get around to fixing them but it is unlikely. Time to move forward, not spend more time repairing the past.

Media from prior comments is not present nor do I plan on fixing it. Other than some of Kevin’s responses, it was a minor. I may fix a few post cross links as I get to them. They are not that important since search works fine.

I am glad I took the time to import the posts even if it has sucked up a lot of time. History is important. In hindsight, I should have added a heritage specific tag to the imported posts. I didn’t and I’m not going back.

Thanks Kev, for the data.

Failing Disks, Artists, and other Crazy Bits

Computers are already aware. I swear they know the worst possible time to die. If life is hectic and you are reliant on a computer, it will select the best particular moment for it to frustrate you completely. Luckily, they don’t seem to share that information to neighbors. If they did, I’d be in the midst of a complete rebellion. So far, only the one standby machine has decided to thwart my creative efforts. Now that one machine is down, this one is likely considering dying.

Artists are some cool people. I’ve corresponded with half a dozen of them over the last couple of weeks. They can be hard to find but everyone I’ve contacted has been extremely helpful. I’m in exploratory mode trying to determine rates in an industry I know nothing about. Every single person I’ve contacted has given me the information I asked for. Top that with every one of them has also offered additional advice from general rates to cover vs. one time art. Even the one who is too busy to consider commissions currently gave me pointers to alternative artists and where to look. From all appearances, my initial emails were received well and clearly demonstrated my complete ignorance of art and commissioning artists. Thanks all. The advice is much appreciated.

Work has ramped up to a crazy level just as I’m trying to prep for the all important non-work aspects of life. Stuff like gaming, fishing, boating, and basically anything and everything not work related. The corporate overlords may be conspiring with my failing machines. They will not win. I refuse to let them. The paychecks are only useful for paying for the good portions of life.

Our semi-annual old guy gaming get together is now just 2 weeks away. Three full days of crazy gaming across as many systems and game masters as we can fit in. Along with decent food and some cocktails. Every outing is a cool mini-vacation. The wives probably dub it a boys weekend and that would be accurate unless they want to come game. It might happen at some point but not this time. I’m looking forward to it. Always a good time no matter what we play.

Convergence Crazy: Prep Yourselves

I’m evil. Evil2 is more evil.

Identities hidden to protect the less than innocent.