Not good night

1. Went out to go to work and found I had a flat.

2. Had to wait over an hour for AAA since they had trouble finding the right apartment.

3. Off-ramp I wanted was closed so I had to circle way around to get back to the street I needed. Where I saw that the off-ramp was NOW open. Meaning they apparantly waited until just after I drove past to open it.

4. Am now very, very dizzy. Head spinning. Typing and paperwork hard.

5. Cheapest new tire from Discount will run around $50. Plus whatever other charges get added in.

5. Can have end shift now?

Sunday Trade: Rex Libris

Rex Libris: I, Librarian

All by James Turner

Rex Libris is the two-fisted action hero librarian in charge of the Middleton Public Library. And he don't take no guff. Whether from demon samurai, alien overlords or noisy kids. Under the orders of the Great Library Administrator Mr. Thoth there is no distance to great or enemy to dire to face to retrieve an overdue book.

RIP Robert Jordan?

I'm seeing a lot of Robert Jordan has died in the middle of his current book stuff. Unfortunately, his official blog keeps timing out, when I go to check. Probably from everyone on the internet going there to check the accuracy of the rumor...

Still if true, this is sad for his fans, one of whom I used to be. And like most ex-fans this is the reason I gave up on the series. The feeling that it would NEVER finish. And now, if this is true, it won't. At least not strictly under Jordan's control. I can see the publisher getting a hold of any notes he has and hiring someone to finish the series...

Ok, got the page to partially load. From the 1st paragraph:

It is with great sadness that I tell you that the Dragon is gone. RJ left us today at 2:45 PM. He fought a valiant fight against this most horrid disease. In the end, he left peacefully and in no pain. In the years he had fought this, he taught me much about living and about facing death. He never waivered in his faith, nor questioned our God’s timing. I could not possibly be more proud of anyone. I am eternally grateful for the time that I had with him on this earth and look forward to our reunion, though as I told him this afternoon, not yet. I love you bubba.

Sunday Aces & Eights

Today I split the party. Every GMs favorite thing. While the rest of the group took the train to the opium/gambling town of New Shanghai, I looted some of the bandits and took one of their horses to the river. I figured I'd find a crossing and keep heading towards Colorado. I've got wilderness survival skills to rely on...

Of course I then found a group of murdered soldiers in Confederate uniforms and a blown up bridge. So I moved on up the river, hoping to find a crossing the next day. Unfortunately I was captured by a group of Confederates heading FROM upriver, planning to hook up with some delayed compratiots. Ones who apparantly had some kind of big treasure on them...

After deciding to head to New Shanghai for some answers the soldiers backshot my character and left him to die. Fuck that. He dragged himself the 40 miles to town, thru deadly desert heat the first two days and then (with one of the wounds becoming infected) a raging hailstorm. And with the town finally in sight, he finally collapsed...

The GM did decide that a local Chinese doctor found him and managed to save his life. Of course he hosed a couple of his medicine skill checks and so some of my ribs set wrong (giving me long term penalties to accuracy and initiative). And Robert Joseph McCoy is now side-lined for 70 days to heal up. Meaning I'll still need a new character, at least temporarily. But once he's healed? Bobby Joe is riding for revenge. Because no one on God's green Earth holds a grudge like a wounded McCoy...