Its gravy time with Rich.

Its moving day for Rich and some friends are helping him out. Its lunch time with some KFC. Before work begins a new, Gravy Time is called where Rich finishes of the gravy we had.

Boardgame Night with Arkham Horror

With a group of four (two people down from our normal RPG night group) we played our first game of Arkham Horror. We played it for about 3 hours and got about over the half way point before we called it a night. For a first game I think it went well. There was a lot of rules review, but with the next game, it will go a lot smoother the next time.

Not a short game. The box says 2 to 4 hours and it was more for a first game.

With this being the first time I have played it, I would give it a 7 out of 10. It had a feel of a RPG, like we normaly play.

The meet up in New York

The trip was from June 17th thru the 21st. This was the best time that fit everyone's schedule.

With me traveling from Seattle to New York, its a all day trip, I got there the day before everyone else and spent some resting. I got to spend some time with my brother and my new nephew.

We were all meeting up at Chad's place, they all got there Thursday night for some cold pizza and a few game of Apples to Apples as a ice breaker game. Fun was had by all.

The next day we went to Ground Zero, Liberty Island and to the Top of the Rock. We meet up with Chad, went back to the apartment and started our Warhammer game. For a game we have not played in 10+ years, we picked it up slowly again. We got a good 5 or so hours of play and it looked like about 20% the way thru the adventure. More to play when we get together again in a year or two. To save on travel time Chad spent the night on the couch for a few hours of sleep.

We got up when we got up, picked up put rent a car and headed to play some paintball at Paintball Arena in New York. Last time I had played was sometime in 1991 (I think). We brought what stuff we had and rented the paintguns and masks. We played in a indoor arena, a first for me. For most of the games, we played on the same side. Running, shooting and getting hit. Not all in that order sometimes. We had fun in a game we had not played in a long time and I walked away with only 14 bruises.

Durring out trip we talked about old and new time, like old time. We plan to make a habbit of this and head over to my neck of the woods (Seattle) when next we meet up in a year or so.

See the pictures I took here.

The game of old.

Currently I am in New York seeing my brother and meeting up with some childhood friends. We are planing to have a old school game of Warhammer (the '86 RPG ver). Most of the characters are created, down on paper or in some one's head. The GM has a adventure in mind for us to go thru. As he has stated, it has been many moons from the last time he has played the game. We will most likely be playing most of this by ear.

The name for my Dwarf that I came up with is Rustfist Redforge.

See my game blog for other notes about the game: mygamenotes.blogspot.com

We shall see how this turns out.

World Wide Wing Night 5

Not a big turn out. It was just me and my friend Norm. Had some good wings and talked about our D&D game.
Will try again next year and will hope for a larger turn out. From the people I heard from, the day did not work for them.

See pictures from other people here.

The meeting of old friends.

Found out during the vacation from my brother that the old gang has all oked a get together next year some time in June or July. A time will be nailed down sometime in January. For me, June or early July are good for me. ComicCon begins July 22nd of 2009. From what I know, Chad has his wife's brother's wedding some time in late June (I think). As time goes on, time will tell.

This is close to a group picture as I have.
On the left we have Luke, Heath (thats me) and Chad.
On the right we have Neal, Mark and Will.

It has been a while sense we have all been in the same room together. I thinking of a date of some time in 1991, plus or min a year. We have all spread out all across the US.

The ComicCon number.

The number is up to four people that are going to the 2008 ComicCon. There is me, Rich, JP and Chris (which did not go last year).

The Painted Figure.

Last Thursday (10/18/07) I finished Bob's figure he gave (after I offer) to me to paint (oh so many months ago). Cleaning, priming and adding the base coat were the easy part. After I did that the figure sat around for a few months, our game was on hold due to our GM's wife was having a baby. We planed to met for our prep game on Friday (10/19/07) to talk about the game and our characters. I had put the paint of the figure off to long and need it finished. I went through my colors and picked the standard ones (armor, metal, leather colors). The choices were the small items on the figure and the one large item that not a standard color was the cloak. It took 2 nights after work to get a final product completed for our Friday get together.

I took some pictures of the different stages of the painting of Bob's figure, which should be named Darbor.



Click the picture for a larger picture and some more info on painting the figure.

Game Night

Tonight was game night. This is our first meeting in over 3 months. It looks like the Hero game will be picking up soon.
We got 2 games of Give Me The Brain!, the color special edition. We then got some food and came back to play a game of Ticket To Ride. A new game for me. Not too hard to learn, but will take time to master. I did not win, but I did not do too bad.

Give Me The Brain!


Ticket To Ride

Older

Yesterday I headed over to a friends house thinking it was game night. It turned out I was off by a week. That showing my age. ;-) We talked and I got to see the new baby. With some time I headed over to Half-Price Books and found a few items. I next started to head back home, but stoped by Best Buy to pick up the The Grim Adventures of Bill & Mandy. Took a little bit of time, it was found in the B section. I thought it would be under the G section. Oh well.
While I was at Best Buy Chad (my brother) call to wish me a happy 35th birthday. Two days late, but understandable due to getting ready for our parents trip to see them in New York. I did learn that they have moved into the new bigger place and that dad is help refurnish most of the cherry furniture. The new place is about four blocks from Chad old place in Forest Hills and required about a month of work to clean and fix up the place before they moved in.
Just a little over a month away, I will be heading down to see them for about a week. Till then.

Neal's Family

I got this email from my friend on August 9th and pictures today. Its a BOY!

Hi guys!

I am proud to announce the arrival of Maxwell Murphy Kahle!!! He was born this afternoon at 2:28 weighing in at 7lbs 5oz and 21 inches long. Both little Max and Mom are doing great and all of us are looking forward to a good night's sleep! 21 hours from the first set of regular contractions to final delivery.... Lotsa fun! ;^)

--Neal

Drive by cell phone call.

On Friday, some time after work. As I pulled into the mall parking lot I got a call on my cell phone. It was Chris, unknown to me at the time, I just passed him as I pulled into the mall. He just finished seeing Superman Returns.

It was like, "I just passed you as you drove in." "You did? I did not see you." He said "I know what you're going to see." No thats tommorow. I just driving to Circuit City to pick something up."

The age of Cell phones. Try looking around. Most people have a cell phone these days.

Shannon got married ...

On Friday the 23rd, I got a text message from Shannon saying "I just got married to Vylar". One email later I found out that they were married on the 23rd at 1:30pm, a civil ceremony with a judge, Vy, two witnesses and no guests.

UPDATE: Pictures

The Adventures of Stabby McStoo

Rich from work, draws durring his down time. He mainly works on his comic strip and characters from the Lineage 2 (PC) game. He has been interviewed about his artwork and posted on Lineage 2 web page HERE.

Its a girl.

I did not know how close it was that Rich's wife was to having the baby till the text message saying, "Yukos water broke", sometime late night on the 26th. I think the baby girl was born sometime in early morning on the 27th. See below for pictures of the cute new born baby .

camera phone pix 1

camera phone pix 2

The Binder of picture posting.

With Shannon's trip back to Seattle on June 24th thru 26th, some pictures were taken with my cell phone (they can do that, don't you know). He has posted on his BLOG via flickr.