Yesterday marked the culmination of over a month of work by Chibbs and I. We created a new online community for Dungeons and Dragons players called Dragon Avenue. The site focuses on DnD news, but also has a place for other geeky stuff that DnD players are interested in. Megan baked an awesome cake in the shape of the site logo! How cool is that?
Dork night turned out to be very interesting. Chibbs “The Killer DM” struck again; this time with force majeure. In a long battle with some evil cultists, our party was completely wiped out, one by one. Kyle’s character lasted the longest, amazingly surviving for over 12 rounds after the rest of the party was eliminated. What is particularly sad is that Megan arrived at about 11pm after she got off work just in time to sit down and watch her character bite the dust. Our laments fell on deaf ears and the Killer DM continued his onslaught of doom.
We’re all rolling up new characters and plan to thwart Chibby’s next attempt and wiping us out.
Nina Simone said it best when she said “I’m Feelin’ Good”. I had a great weekend. Friday night was a good session of Shackled City with my regular gaming group. I have been having a good time DMing which is a tad unusual. I usually get bored of it, but this time around it’s worked out and kept my interest. We’re all enjoying it. Now if I can just get Rebecca to play. Chibbs announced that he returning to the DM seat for us westsiders. He’s going to take us through the Age of Wyrms campaign which should be awesome.
Saturday we went to Vancouver lake and had a fun and relaxing day. We packed up the canoe which was the first time the canoe had been used since we moved into the new house. There was so much dirt and spider webs on it that we had to take it to the car wash to clean it off. Chibbs, Kelly, Levi, and I took a 4 mile trip around the lake which was nice. Naturally, I took Abraham and he was so tired from playing catch in the water, that he just slept on the floor of the canoe. Hannah made a friend, Avalon, and the girls played with her all day. I also took the girls out on the canoe and left Abe to play frisbie with Chibbs and Kelly. He didn’t want to be left behind though and he swam out after us. I had to go back to shore and let the dog into the canoe because he would have drowned himself trying to catch up to us. That’s my loyal dog. The pooch got so much excersize that he’s been lethargic for 2 days.
We started watching a new show,”Veronica Mars“. I found out about it searching through highly rated TV shows on Netflix. It had a 4.5/5 rating with 22,000+ votes. As it turns out, the show is awesome and we couldn’t wait for the second disc to arrive so we purchased Season One. Season two is just now finishing on TV so I will have to download it so we can catch up.
I also spent a few hours studying for the Microsoft 70-292 test to upgrade my MCSA from 2000 to 2003. I took the test this morning and passed it (although barely). Now I will begin studying for the 70-284 test to get my messaging certification completed.
Oh yeah, I lost another 2 lbs this week.
I have finally decided to step down from maintaining www.3rdedition.org which has been my baby for over 5 years. It’s a hard decision, but one that I have no doubt is the correct one. There are so many better things I can do.
For example, as I write this, my eldest daughter is sitting across the room behind me reading a magazine just so she can be near me. It brings me much joy to know that she loves me so much that just being in the same room brings her happiness. She reminds me every few minutes that she loves me. How can I work on a D&D website when my children deserve more of my time? 
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