Today I am taking a trip to Autumn Beer and Prezels

In Burton on Trent

so I will have less time for the blog but I did promise myself an afternoons board gaming however it will be back to normal after and from then on and I did miss day one due to work

I would have been doing a demo of HackMaster if we had any books for the enthusiastic punters to buy afterwards

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Admin Announcement

I should perhaps have posted this earlier but I would like to apologise for the sudden loss of Blog activity yesterday just as it was ramping up again but I lost my internet connection.. I then had a bit of  a busy day and decided that I should go to Spirit Games for RPG night in the evening, rather than staying in and finding and fixing the issue.

Its now fixed apparently but I am down to one router form the supply I was provided with by BT who I am no longer with so I may have to go an purchase a spare. 

On the Gaming side I now have another  Character for the Frandors keep game a charmless (cha 1/34 & a boor)  dwarf wizard called Zugemredaes Mulmaxinalson whose attitude is I can't be arsed about any thing which isn't the acquisition of more magical knowledge or the means to do so.The bad  thing is that I him or either of the other two characters I have actually at the keep a fighter - and potential paladin called Conral who is the best set of  stats I have rolled in years and Alerie the magic user thief who is madly in lust with him as he has 18-70 something  like that appearance an she is a lecher, until I find a place to park my Company of fools game which is going to be rather hard given the amount of stuff still going on.

I also have a character for something where you get to run mortals in the present iteration of World of Darkness which is always a nice change of pace for an alternate week game

Every thing is under control now

Rearing to go people

Will be back at the blog face after a few days were work and minor illnesses kept me away and I have lots of stuff to post however so expect a fusillade of updates and article finishing before the end of the day.

City Cartographer a Review correction Cityographer

 City Cartographer a Review  correction Cityographer

I have a first impression on this software in the works I was planing to get it up here tonight but sadly I have run out of steam so I will try to get it done tomorrow

Had a dyslexic monument when reading the program's name  however a first impressions review is in process 

Going to Lincoln today

Complications 

Today I am going to be mostly distracted by going to Lincoln to deal with the fan faecal matter event which is ongoing over there so I will almost certainly get behind with the Bloging not that I am not fully aware I am already miles behind on that score.

For its own sake

If have slowed right down

Its because I  have a stinking cold at the moment yesterday I was going down with it which is why when I sat down to do something on here I didn't and just went to sleep fro twelve hours. I fortunately woke up in time for work but with a foul cold which is just about easing off now thanks to a steady attack of over the counter drugs various and the fact is probably running its cause any way.

I am at present also occupied in getting set for next weeks company of fools game as I seem cold not withstanding have beaten work into a state of control such that I was going to be able to combine work and gaming again indeed tonight's alternate game was supposed to be something of a dress rehearsal for that. Except I have afore mentioned stinking cold and much prefer deploying psychological cruelty against my player group than the biological kind. Also as default party leader in the alternate  game I actually have to thing and herd the rest of the players in something like the right direction. The Gm is almost as old twisted and evil as I am likes to keep me on my toes so I do have to be fully fit.

any way after the lull comes more stuff

A Minor Milestone

I have to pass comment as the number of page views last month was another all time record at two thousand six hundred. I am quietly chuffed as the more page views the more that gets raised to support Burton Wildlife Rescue and its good work.

Last call for Episode I of Against the Robots

with the clock at T - one hour I am all ready to go but will be taking a quick power nap before heading on out to the hangout. and the game.

Against the Robots Episode 1

The Flame Flickers and dies

on the northern borders of the great Varzzaran empire the new company of Varnia rides out to the town of Angrad on a mission to see a scholar and weapon smith of their crippled masters acquaintance bearing a sealed letter to the master Weapon smith  and where the road goes from there any one can guess.

Minor Milestone

Just have to pass comment on the fact that the page view count dropped below a hundred plus yesterday for the first time after a run of seven days when it was well over that its never done that before I am shocked people might actually be reading this and not just web indexing spiders

I have to say I am chuffed especially as it was over a hundred the day before the start of this run and at ninety seven yesterday almost made it to an eight day run.

Minor Milestone

I have to comment on this because I am a bit chuffed about it to be honest that the page view count has been over a hundred a day now  for the last five days now its never done that before. It also means that the blog is raising more funds for the people it supports  which is also good.

Minor Milestone

No big one this time but I have to comment  the daily page views being over one hundred now for four days in a run this is the first time that has ever happened and I feel quite chuffed.

Minor Mile stone

Yesterday the number of post views not only broke the previous days  record of  one hundred and ninety six but also toped two hundred for the first time ever reaching two hundred and eleven. I am feeling rather chuffed at this as its always nice to know some one is reading this.

D+2 today

The real test of the work expansion happens today as its the first full working day after D-day on Saturday and whilst there hasn't been as much of an effect on activity here  as I was expecting this might be the day it happens.

However get today out of the way and things should start falling into place rather than apart and I should given that episode twenty five of the Company of Fools has been moved to the 9th of October  I may even get a chance to catch up you never can tell.

Minor Milestone

Getting some where

Yesterday the page view count reached a new record of one hundred and ninety six in the day besting the last record level of one hundred and forty five by a considerable margin. Not a major mile stone but one which makes me feel the effort I put in here is appreciated and that it does have an audience beyond web indexing spiders

It also means that more money is raised by the blog for Burton Wildlife Rescue which is good.

D+1 in the morning

If it is a bit quiet around here tomorrow it is because I will still be dealing with work related matters left over form today I will still be posting but it may be a relatively quiet day in that regard.just so you know.

I intend to finish off things I have already posted by way of a priority rather than post new stuff however you like I will have to see what I do manage to get done.

D - Day

Business expansion 

In the real world today is the day when my customer base increases by 20%  all at one go so the rate of blog updates may very well slow down at least for today. However I will still be doing what I can and there is life in the blog yet

Update 

Well despite the fact it could have gone better mostly a massive foul up on the part of my suppliers who had carefully ignored the changes I had painstakingly made to my order and taking the better part of an hour to sort this all out I got trough it and am as you can see now back to the Blog.

Which will take my mind off the possibility for a repeat foul up tomorrow

The Return of the Hiatus

The Pizza was drudged I tell you honest, as before I ate it on Sunday night I was up for writing a great load for the blog and not at all knackered just hungry but after I was back into Zombie land again Grrr...

Would have Got back to it yesterday except work and lots of it raised its ugly head again and I had to do that first and by the time I had done that I was well into the Dysfunctionally incoherent  region from my normal at least semi functional incoherence.

However  today I delivered the weekly television guide to the very excellent Spirit Games my local FLGS and I got got asked to cover for an hour and as is so familiar it was nearer four by the time it was all done ad I was once again well into zombie land, not that working at Spirit is ever any thing but a pleasure but it still uses up my recently rather limited endurance. 

I did get to unpack lots of good stuff including  KODT 210, 211,212 and can confirm that they are available in this cold damp land but I did not get a chance to look at them before they where whisked away by the mail order troll as they would be going out in the post today as can be confirmed by them being instantly out of stock .

Any way I am now back at the grindstone and have stuff to go up on the blog  I just need to go and top up the coffee and caffeinated fluids so I stay out of Zombie land long enough to do it.

will be right back....

The Haitus

If it was a bit quiet around here then I am sorry but I have been over doing it on several fronts of late and it rather caught up with me to the point where coherent thought was impossible. I have as a result spent the last three days asleep including the period when I was actually working and most of it in bed. I am now beginning to feel functional so am about to work out where I am at the moment with a view to getting some more bloging done.

There is quite a lot I have to report not least of all Episode Twenty Four Of the Company of Fools and developments with Against the Robots. however first I think I need Pizza which I haven't had in months and than on with the show.

Episode Twenty Four Take it form here

Tonight 

it all goes down hill form here tonight folks

This is ten seconds in and the .........