Sure enough, one of the drives in my NAS failed during the night. Luckily I live within two blocks of both Canada Computers and Memory Express so I grabbed two Ironwolf drives and one of them is currently used to rebuild the RAID array 🤞🏽

Me when it’s sunny, walking the dog: “Listen to that, the birds are singing! So beautiful! So relaxing!”

The birds, probably: “OMG LONG LEGS AND KILLER TEETH ARE HERE! RUN! HIDE!”

12th century emakimono librarian: “Be kind, rewind!”

My face when my Pendragon (session zero) players tell me “These rules look very good! The RuneQuest rules from last year were shit, though! Why didn’t Chaosium use those rules for RuneQuest? What’s the story there?”

And in other eBay news, I may have gotten some old 1985 item at, like, a quarter of the usual “collector’s market” price. Not sure if the item isn’t quite what I thought, or if nobody was paying attention (it was a pretty short auction). We’ll see when it arrives!

I don’t get the practice of “sniping” items on eBay at the end of an auction? I just put my maximum bid from the start and don’t think about it anymore. If I wasn’t willing to pay more than that 2 weeks ago, I’m not gonna be either 2 minutes before the end.

When the good fluffy boy wants me to enter the Black Lodge…

I’m a few days late but I finally got around to do it this year! The younger kid helped, too.

Firefly and Serenity were good. Buffy was good. I don’t need reboots or sequels or whatever. What I’d rather have are original and diverse new premises and stories. In the meantime, I’ll be watching old stuff I missed.

When someone points at problems with the excesses of late-stage capitalism, there’s always some dumbass who replies “well what do you want then? make everything free?!” and half the time it’s somebody you thought was actually educated 😬