Some things I picked up.

I stoped by Half Price Books on my way home and picked up a few books:

1. Shadow on the Sand (Book 5) Lone Wolf, A Role Playing Adventure
   It a pick your own adventure book as a RPG and it was found in the Dollar rack.
2. Blood of the Fold (Book 3 of The Sword of Truth) by Terry Goodkind
3. Also picked up a few Piers Anthony books.
1. Mercycle
2. Prostho Plus
3. Split Infinity (Book One of The Apprentice Adept series)
4. Virtual Mode (Book One of The Mode series)
5. On A Pale Horse (Book One of Incarnations of Immorality series)

System Restart

Today at work, our group had the system sofware upgraded. With me entering my login it went thru the process as normal till I got a message that it will restart due to new stuff. Again I login. I check the needed programs, I see I am missing a one. I choose it and restart it myself. About 30 to 60 min later, I am off the phones work on a little project when I get the 5 min till shut down message. So I shut it down myself. Thank the computer god that was the only time it happened (to me). I have noticed a few people around me that they got a the 5 min message durring a call and some of them had it happen to them 3 to 5 time durring the day. No more updated, please.

Some things I picked up.

1. Justice League: The New Frontier (Two Disk Special Edition) with a Green Lantern action figure from DC Direct with the DVD package (from Best Buy).
   (a cut good from the graphic novel to movie)
2. Beowulf: Director's Cut
   (looked good, noted some good reviews, never went to it the the theaters)

ConQuest NW 2008

My days at a RPG conventions call ConQuest NW.

Day 1 (Friday, February 15th)

Decline to game today. The games begin later in the day and decided to game with my normal gaming group.

Day 2 (Saturday, February 16th)

1. Freeport: The Buccaneers of the Sky
   Savage Worlds: Explorer's Edition
   
   
   
   
2. Arena of Death
   Hero System 5th Edition
   
   
   

Day 3 (Sunday, February 17th)

1. Cat: Dia de los Muertos
   Cat
   
   
   
   
2. Bureau 13: Roach Motel
   d20 Modern
   
   
   
   
3. When the Heroes Are Away
   Hero System 5th Edition
   
   
   
   

Day 4 (Monday, February 18th)

A pick up game of a Star Trek (TNG timeline) using the Hero System 5th Edition.

The 16000th View on Flickr

As of today, I have over 16000 views on my Flickr pictures, a update from 11000 views on 11/01/07.

The plane to ride.

Today after work me, Rich and JP went to my place to find a flight to ComicCon. A great nonstop flight was found to and from ComicCon. Due to the bad lay over with flight home from ComicCon last year, we were looking for a nonstop flight. One for $197.00 was found and bought today. The flight info was texted to Myles and Chris. Chris has his flight purchased (after he got home from work) and is in the next row over from our group.

To get a room for ComicCon (UPDATE).

Rich told me today, that JP got a room about a block from where the prev hotel was last year. It would be $1,000.00 for the 5 day. It would be about $200.00 per person for the 5 people we have planed. The cost of the room also covers the breakfast in the morning.

To get a room for ComicCon.

The phones opened to get a room for ComicCon 2008 today at 9am. I tried to call in at 9am for 15 mins durring my first break. I got 15 mins of a busy signal. I tried two hours later at my lunch and got into a live person to be told that all the rooms they had available were full. They offered a waiting list. Rich got a room on the other side of the airport, which is not near the convention center. Time will tell, if some more rooms open.

Some things I picked up.

Last week I picked up a few DVDs.

• Blade of the Phantom Master DVD (There was a preview on another disc and it looked good.)
• Veronica Mars: 3rd Season DVD (Picked it up for the great cost of $19.99 at Best Buy.)
• Life of Brian: The Immaculate Edition, 2-Disk DVD Set (One of the last Monty Python movies I needed to complete the set.)

30 days of pictures.

I have see a few 365 picture a day projects on Flickr. I wanted to test the water and see if I could do it on a small scale. That where this 30 day project of mine comes in. I am going to try for 30 day to get a picture a day posted.

This is going to be from February 1, 2008 to March 1, 2008. Most of the time I will be using my camera phone, which I have with me all the time and is 2.0 MP.

My 30 Day Project

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 car is back.

It took about a week and a half to get the car back. Mostly it was waiting to get the part. The passanger side wiper transmission was broken. It took 2.5 hours to complete and $444.82 for the final cost. One small part that was under the dashboard cost a good amount of money to fix. On a side not, the fan in the Volvo had stoped working about a year ago. It had blown a fuse and was a easy fix.

My Nerd Test

Some things I saw and picked up.

Picked up my first Wii game the other day of Super Paper Mario. I like the prev game of Paper Mario. I am aware the it not a RPG like the GC system game. It looked good to me. Time will tell.

Looks at a few item to look up online.

• AMF Bowling Pinbuster! for the Wii (Got some bad, bad reviews, not a game I will be picking up.)
  
• Wii Zapper with Link's Crossbow Training (There were some good review of the game with the zapper, I almost picked it up myself.)
  

My car update.

Found out today, that to get to the wipers to check them out (on my '82 Volvo), you have to go thru the dashboard. I myself tried to look at how you get to them and had no luck. Its about 2.5 hours of labor at around $200.00 just to find out what needs to be fixed. Once there, maybe it is a easy fix (fingers crossed). From what I was told, Volvo still make parts that could be used on my car, if it is broken.

Some things I picked up.

This last Thursday I picked up two DVDs.

• Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest DVD
  
• DragonLance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight DVD
  (A good story, but the animation was just ok, it could have been better. The of animation and digital did not merge well.)

On the road home.

Coming back from my parents today, my cars wipers crapped out and stoped working. I pulled over to check what happened. The left one had pooped out and the other one is not working correctly. I need to get it fixed.

The new Wii.

I got the notice after work on Monday. Monday night it snowed.

Tuesday there was snow and ice all about.

Wednesday was better, I went and picked the Wii up at the post office, during my lunch. And after work I got some play time in.

(The Wii was a belated Christmas gift from my parents and my brother's family.)



Also see the picture group here.

Our HERO game tangents.

Here are some of the off topics that came up durring on HERO RPG game on 1/11/08:

TV (Series) - Big Bang Theory
TV (Series) - Buffy and The 8th Season in comics
TV (Cartoon) - Kim Possible
TV (Series) - Final season of Veronica Mars
Food - Rikki Rikki
Podcast - Dragons Landing
TV (Series) - How I Met Your Mother
Movie (DVD) - Shrek the Third

My game blog.

Some things I saw and picked up.

Picked up the book Stardust by Neil Gaiman at Half Price Books.

Also spoted two different covers of the MYTH series of books that I have read and reread.