During Weekend in Dyvers I actually managed to play a sum total of 5 games, and judge 1. I told you about the first I got to play in my post WID - Day 1. I got to play a module on day 2, 2 modules on day 3, and 1 module between days 3 and 4. Day 4 was the day I got to judge.
Today has been a long, hard, exhausting, and rewarding day at WID
Today I woke up rather early, unable to get to sleep due to excitement about the Con and hanging out with my gaming group so long. I got as much as I could done in prep for the con, then headed out. I got to Belleview quickly and early, but I find the layout of streets in the con area rather confusing and counter-intuitive as I followed the directions I was given. After asking directions, and doing a food run later, I think that I’m passingly familiar with the area now though.
Over the past 4 days I worked a 40 hour work week in order to arrange to get Friday off, and as a result have not been able to find much time to post to my blog.
The reason for this is because this weekend, in Council Bluffs Iowa, there is a major D&D convention, “Cavalier Con Presents: Weekend In Dyvers” going on, and I have agreed to help staff it. It is a four day convention, and there will be loads of RPG gaming and other fun. And for me, there will be loads of other work.
I view this as a real opportunity to help out, and also to reintegrate myself into a group that I had to abandon for a few years in order to graduate and get a decent job.
If any of my readers head to the Con, you can look me up, though I’m not sure everyone there would know me by my online nick-name.
There are many different kinds of technology designed to reduce our reliance on foreign oil or to decrease pollution some of the most promising are:
One of the major objections I’ve heard against drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge is that it would not produce a lot of oil. I’m not sure what people consider a lot, but the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Arctic Refuge survey (page 18), states that the mean average projected amount of oil is 13.8 bbo (Billion Barrels of Oil).
According to the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) the united states used approximately 7.5 BBO in Crude Oil and Petroleum Products in 2006.
That’s approximately 1.8 years of fueling America just on it’s own.
It’s worth looking at using bicycles in place of cars for short trips for many reasons.
When people ride their bikes, there are be notable benefits.
Unfortunately there are a lot of problems involved in biking. One of the biggest of these problems is… where do you do the biking in the first place?
Earlier today one of my friends asked me what the heck was up with my blog, and some of my other friends have already heard the howls of my frustration, and the gnashing of my teeth. That, combined with the new adds, leads me to believe that a post about the changes is likely warranted.
Until recently, I’ve had free hosting on my workplace’s server. However I’ll be starting a new job soon, which means I’ll be leaving the old one. Unfortunately that means I needed to either find a new hosting service, or pony up the $30 a month that businesses pay for hosting (and quarterly updates). Since I wouldn’t be using the quarterly updates, and I’m still getting my blog and site how I want them, that’s hardly cost efficient for me.
Because of this fact I moved my site over to GoDaddy, and am currently taking advantage of their free hosting until I have my site setup, or until I find better free hosting - possibly with my ISP, or my job. This hosting is payed for by the adds and searches you see at the top of the page. This also resulted in the many problems you may have noticed as I got my blog set up over here.