Well it's been awhile since I wrote. Not busy, more lazy. Galaxies has slowed down, doing a few other things. Not the things I should (buying a house, working out, etc.) but other things. The family is good, no news from that front on the middle brother causing more heartache. Got a new cell phone. So far T-Modile (Catherine Zeta-Jones notwithstanding) isn't much more impressive than Sprint was, but the Motorola V66 is pretty slick. And for not needing one of those color, game-playing camera phones that cost you all of next month's paycheck it was pretty good. Of course they're taking their own sweet time about getting me the rebate forms and such but that's a given.

The gang's discussion about a kung-fu system to lay on top of d20 is proceeding. We may be doing some playtesting in the near future. Jason is getting married this weekend. Who'd a thought! Jeff is coming back into town and we're having a football team sized dinner at the steakhouse side of Osaka's.

Crimson Skies and Heroes on the Xbox are both pretty slick. Diehard d20 grognards won't like the later because it uses a hybrid system from the skills, feats and spells but I'm having fun.

Better go make reservations and cancel the Sprint phone. And for the record Sprint PCS sucks.

Games

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Okay, Galaxies still owns my soul but it's giving it back periodically. I joined a guild called the "Universal Adventurer's Union, who's motto is "No l337 d00dz, No bling, bling". A pretty cool group of people. And they just patched yesterday and added mounts (like the kaadu the gunguns ride in Episode I) and player cities. Pretty slick looking. But having enough skills as a Creature Handler, I can train mounts so I suspect I'll be in "tellhell" for awhile.

Other stuff is going well. I'm looking forward to Jeff visiting later this month. Work is going okay again and has slowed down enough to get some other stuff done. My brother doesn't seem to be causing too many waves at my dad's house. The Iron Kingdoms campaign is moving along nicely but I wish Jack could come back in (he had to drop out for awhile because of scheduling and being too busy).

Last night Aaron, Jason and Andy started designing a new game. They were talking about the new Matrix movie and started postulating how you would role play it. It seems like it's going to be some sort of card based system of combat to be patched into an existing system, likely d20 initially. We'll see how it plays out but they had some interesting ideas.