One of the more interesting things about my struggle to figure out why this blog has not been indexed by Google Search lately has been that ...

Truth be told, I’ve not felt much like writing the past few weeks. I guess that’s to be expected, since I wrote more posts for the past year...

( Here's a link for Part 1. ) In early September, I went hunting on the  American Radio Relay League's website  for amateur radio cl...

Last year, I began pondering what I was going to do when I retired. The semi-official retirement age for my generation is 67*, when you can ...

It's been an interesting couple of weeks since I last checked in with my Operation Spread the Love on the WoW Anniversary servers. By th...

Well, I pulled off another "Not Quite a Blaugust" Blaugust. No signups, no fanfare, no topics. Just writing for 31 days. Things tu...

My wife and I met our son and his partner for lunch today at our local bookstore, and afterward we wandered the stacks. I espied a few board...

1982 was a bit of a seminal year for me. The 1981-1982 school year was my 7th Grade. I was knee deep in puberty, I'd been playing D&...

I sometimes wonder what my midlife crisis would look like.  Yes, before you point out that I'm north of 50 so I technically should have ...

Well, the news broke a couple of hours ago on Monday that one of my coworkers and acquaintances for a decade or more had passed away. I'...

When we first began attending Gen Con, some of the biggest booths were from companies such as Days of Wonder, Catan, Fantasy Flight, and Z-M...