Too much going on. I've directly contacted the two people who were interested, but I wanted to post that I will not be running the game this weekend. Please don't go to Great Hall Games looking for me.

How did Admiral Ackbar "It's a TRAP!" get a page at BGG?

Okay, I'm home and pretty well rested. Who in Austin wants to try Revolution this weekend? Maybe a Saturday afternoon game.

Nico's Tacos in Tucson is yummy.

Only four points of articulation, but my crazy bootleg action figure design is coming together. Casting and assembly is finished and now it's time for paint. I've built six of these and before even finishing the work all of the pieces are spoken for.

Well, something's going on. The number of companies -- and game industry pros -- who are skipping this year seems to be higher than ever.

I love taking photos of toys. Especially photos of toys in water.



This is the Rothan Pheyden from Onell Design's Glyos System. And this particular Pheyden is special because Matt Doughty, designer of the toy, scarred him up for me at the New York Toy Fair.

. . . then you're gonna need some water. But since I don't want to carry bottles of water with me while we wander through the mountains and deserts I grabbed a CamelBak Vantage 30 backpack. It's kinda cool, with lots of pockets and pouches, and should work great for carrying water and stuff while we're out wandering whatever trails we find.

I think I'm gonna fill it with water and go for a walk this afternoon. After all, it wouldn't be right to go off on a journey without testing the equipment before you leave the house. And since it's hot today this will be an excellent test; after all, I don't think the desert is gonna be any cooler than Austin is today.

That Rogue Trader Quick Start arrived in the mail yesterday and it looks very nice. I hope to get a chance to look it over closely later today, but the first flip through shows that (at least in production quality) this is a head above the older Dark Heresy quick start booklet.

Today is Free RPG Day, so you can find your own goodies at your local store.

Well, I guess it's not only me since Will helps (though I'm more likely to fall into a rant than Will is). One of the new projects at the office has involved creating a few short videos to post online and we posted the first video -- unboxing Frag Gold Edition -- yesterday as I was headed out the door.

What a great way to say so long to the office for a few weeks. We opened cases of Revolution this morning and drooled. I snapped a blurry picture of one of the boxes.



It's a good thing I own a camera. This phone sucks for photos.

I sat in a meeting yesterday in which we planned our demo events for GenCon. Frag, Munchkin Quest, Revolution, and The Stars Are Right will all get in-booth demos. And we should have all four games for sale at the booth.

Details need to be ironed out, and new promotional material created, but the planning meeting yesterday went better than I had hoped.

I'll be in the booth quite a bit this year -- running Frag and Revolution demos -- so I should be a little easier to find. Except for when I'm off for meetings.

Just a few more days and I take two weeks off from work. I'm really excited about the free time -- both the week I'll spend at home working on my own projects and the week that we'll be on the road -- and have to force myself to concentrate on office work. I've got a checklist of tasks to finish in the office this week so it's one line after another.

I should be posting photos and updates while we're on the road. As the departure day grows closer we're starting to build a bit of a plan for our trip. At the moment it looks like over to Carlsbad, then up to Denver, then across to the Grand Canyon, south to Tucson, and then back to Texas (with a stop in Big Bend). And to give us more time on the road Gina's arranging to work a half-day next Thursday; we'll take off Thursday afternoon and try to get through as much of Texas as possible before settling down for the night.

I didn't know this was coming. Awesome!

Information at the FFG website.

Place your money down here. So far this isn't looking like they'll make it, since the money has to be in by tomorrow, but let's try anyway.

Hit it, guys. Chill was a great game and it would be nice to see a new edition.

Maybe even all day. Office people, you have been warned.

I am not a coffee fan. I try some every now and then, but it tastes disgusting. (I hate coffee almost as much as I hate wine.)

What's crazy, though, is that I love dark chocolate coffee beans. Mmmmmm. Tasty. Crunchy. Sweet and bitter. Very good stuff.

I'm an idiot.