Our HERO game tangents.

Here are some of the off topics that came up durring on HERO RPG game on 4/27/07:

1. Name changes with cell companies.
2. Buffy and Angel series.

Dad still had the car due to car in the shop. I got a ride from Norm and a ride back from Bob.

At the ComicCon . . .

I found a press release for the direct to DVD movie of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales.

Marketing Support
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales will be supported by extensive national media campaign including TV and Online advertising. Marketing support will also include significant presence at the San Diego ComicCon. Online podcasts and a completely new redesigned website will also deliver significant awareness.

I read the part in red and say to myself, 'I am going the be there. I can check this out.' So, that is my plan. When I am there I will see if I can track them down. Get the DVD and maybe a autograph.

The water flows.

Last night it started with a ring around the sink. I think the sink has a clog. I find the drano and follow the directions. About a hour later I hear running water, like the tub was left running and over flowed. But it was not the tub, but the sink. Water was flowing up the drain, over flowed the sink and getting the floor soaked. First, glab my extra towels and apply then to the floor. Next, grab a large jar and start bailing the water from the sink to the tub. After a little time, it stoped and the clean up started. The pipe from the sink was removed and clean. I am not really sure where the water came from, the water was flowing from the drain. I had run a load of close in the washer. Could the be it? Is the washer drain connected to the sink? I will be keeping a eye out on the that sink from now on.

Update (5/1/07): After one more overflow today, the problem was fixed while I was at work by Roto Rooter. There was a clog somewhere in the line that directed some/most/all of the water from my new up stares neighbors. When I got home there was just a little clean up to do and some wet towels to deposit in the washer.

The change in the game.

Tonight we took a night off from our Hero Game and played some board games. To start out, my parent's car craped out and they borrowed my car for 4 days now. I got a ride with Norm and Gwen, then meet up with Bob. We then headed over to Red Robin to get some food. We then played 2 games. With night end, I got a ride back home with Bob.


Carcassonne - Game 1

Super Munchkin - Game 2

To open a podcast.

It was not my voice, but a question I had email into Chuck and Lonnie of the Dragon Landing Inn Podcast. It appears in the opening of the podcast for Bravo 78 episode. It was read and answered. (FYI: My screen name is MrWhite). Yea me (again).

Sakura-Con 2007

I want to start out by saying that getting sick sucks. Sakura-Con was last weekend. I hitched a ride with a friend to the Con. It did start with a 1 hour and 45 min stand in line. It was not too bad, i had planed on some wait. I did bring my PSP and iPod to kill some time. People in costume were abundant as you can tell in the picture that I took and others. One good did happen while in line, got a free con t-shirt. The dealer room was great. I did a lot of looking and bought a few Tachikoma toy figures, Dragon Ball figures and a Drsgon Quest toy. Seen here. I saw my frind Rich and stoped by the video room a few times. By 6pm I was ready to go, I was not feeling good. I got home in good time and crashed out. I ended up recovering that weekend and next two work days.

Check out the photo group for the Sakura-Con 2007 pictures, some are mine:

Our HERO game tangents.

Here are some of the off topics that came up durring on HERO RPG game on 4/13/07:

1. Ghost in the Shell (Movie)
2. Java dice roller in our game.
3. Wonder Twins in the Super Friends TV cartoon.
4. My little Tachikoma toy figure I got at Sakura-Con last week.
5. After the game ended reviewed some pictures Norm took at Sakura-Con last week. See all the pictures here.

Wacky news

The German army sent a draft notice to a four-week-old baby named Lucio, ordering him to report for duty within the next 10 days, before realising it had blundered.

A spokesman for the army said the notice had been sent erroneously because a clerk typed in the wrong date of birth for the boy from Aubstadt, in southern Germany.

“It was an accident,” an army spokesman told Reuters.

“Somebody entered the wrong number into a computer. There was no harm done.

"We realised the error the same day and called up the family to tell them to throw the notice away when it arrived.”

New Source.

Happy Easter.

DVD to cash.

I had some old DVDs that I did not want, that I bought the full set on or got the special edition of a old DVD. I cashed the out at my local DVD/CD store for $44.00, which was around $2 - 5 each for the lot. Cleared up some space and added some cash to my pockets.

Does not match.

Today at work I talked to a woman named Joy, but there was no joy in her voice.

A change in rent.

This last Saturday I got a letter about renewing my rent for my current apartment. Apparently there was rent increase from my current rent of $920 to $975. The place is in a good location, was remodeled last year and is still affordable. Papers were signed for a 10 month lease.

What I did today.

Today I saw the movie TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), which was a great movie, at the 11:05 am to get the lower cost, which is around $9.00 for prine time. Great movie. One thing I saw at the end of the movie in Splinter room, on a shelf was that time travel specter in the 3rd movie. After the movie I got some food and played Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords on my PSP. And them I went over to the Games Workshop to have a look around. Its close to where I live , but I have never been in there. I did find a good color (Desert Yellow) to use for some minis I am painting.

Time frame. Update

I check the GeekLable.com today and low and behold our picture has been posted on the GeekLable Fan Photos page. It took a while, but there it is.

From when I sent the photo, Feb 25th to today, Mar 31st. It took around 35 days to get the photo posted.

Our HERO game tangents.

Here are some of the off topics that came up durring on HERO RPG game on 3/24/07:

1. Deep Space Nine episode: Trials and Tribble-ations

In our game Bob's character, Darbor said something along as this: When Bashir and O'Brien ask Worf why 23rd Century Klingons look so different he will only tell them "it was a bad time in our history... we do not discuss it with outsiders".

2. South Park episode: With Apologies to Jesse Jackson

3. Bob's character new dog: the size and name of it.

4. The flash game of Desktop Tower Defence
started a Group Scoreboard under the name "Luckless"

My Anime Rant

Watched the Pokemon movie, Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, that was Cartoon Network tonight and was sorry to see a good chunk of the movie missing. I saw the Japanese version of the movie the movie opened with a good overview of the Pokemon world which was about 4 to 5 minutes. That was missing. Then the next shot was with the Pokemon Ranger rescuing the Pokemon egg from the pirate ship which was about 10 to 15 minutes. That was also missing. From what I could tell the movie did not suffer from the cut shots, the scenes were in the original Japanese version, why were they not kept. I do not know why the movie was not kept whole. The only reason I can possibly see is it was cut for time. The movie was given 2 and a half hour, but the movie only used 2 hours and 10 minutes. The other 20 or so minutes were used to a different cartoon show.

Thats my story and I am sticking with it.

The Flight

Meet up with Rich and JP after work to get our tickets for the flight to San Diego Comic Con. After some food we head over to my place. Rich started with a flight the would work. Next JP, with a little work, was able to find the matching flight (thru Orbitz). Last , was me. Found the need flight to match the others (no trouble finding it) and booked the flight. Step two complete.

Room. Check.
Flight, there and back. Check.

Time frame.

GeekLable make a great shirt, it has held up to a few washing so far. I had given our game group (of 3 including me) a GeekLable shirt. On one game day I got everyone to put on the shirt and was able to snap a picture.



From what GeekLable's Web site says, "Have a fan photo you'd line to share?". So I did. I email the photo on February 25th and got this email responce on March 6th:

Hey heath,

Thanks for the awesome photo! Sorry not to get it online sooner. Hopefully, I have it online in the next day or two.

jay

Jay Lynn

President

Geeklabel, Inc.

www.geeklabel.com

As of today, March 18th, it has not shown up yet on their photo page. You say 2 days, it should be posted there in around the 2 day. It has been 12 day, it should be posted by now.

Thats my rant and I am sticking to it for now. ;-)

300 the movie.

Some info on "300":

Time Warner Inc.'s battle epic "300'' was the highest-grossing movie for a second straight weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters, taking in $31.2 million.

The movie topped Sandra Bullock's "Premonition,'' which opened in third place with $18 million, and Universal Pictures' ``Dead Silence,'' which debuted fourth with $7.7 million, box- office tracker Media By Numbers LLC said in a statement today. ``Wild Hogs'' retained second place, taking in $18.8 million in its third week of release.

``300'' last week broke the record for a March opening, taking in $70 million. While receipts fell 56 percent this week, the movie has now made $127.5 million since its March 9 release and is the biggest-grossing film this year for Warner Bros., which may have its second number-one debut of 2007 when ``Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' opens next weekend.

The full story is at Bloomberg.com

To paint or not to paint.

I made a offer to Bob, my fellow Hero Game player, that if he found a mini figure that I would paint it. The first one he found was Tolan, Male Druid (2692) of the Dark Heaven Legends line from Reaper Mini. It looks good, but he found a better one, Blackclad Druid (PIP81019) of the Iron Kingdoms line from Privateer Press. He liked this one better, the character is holding a long ax type weapon, which looks it could be converted to a staff weapon which Bob's character mainly uses. Early this week I was planing to sit down and start them. Well, I did sit down and opened the Blackclad Druid figure picked off the biger pieces of the metal on the figure. I went to my craft box (which is where my paints, brushes and tools are) to get the get the files to smoth down the edges. But they were not there, I looked around but still could not find them. I recalled the last time they were used were on some horse mini I purchased a few months ago. I gave it a few days, but sill no luck. Last night I looked from file in the local area, but again no luck. Today a made a trip to American Eagles Hobbies over in Seattle to pick a set of fine files and found a another figure for myself. Now I start to prep the minis and get them painted. Thats my story and I am sticking with it.