Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday and of course Merry Christmas.

Because, many of celebrate this season because of a birthday just over 2000 years ago. So I wanted to share my love of the seasonwith all of you this holiday, and hope your holiday (in whichever way you celebrate it, or what you call it) is happy, love filled and joyous.

I just wanted to share two thoughts with you - First from Ben Stein

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. ....It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year.

And second from Luke (a speech that many know from Linus on the Charlie Brown Christmas special.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them,

Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

Top 5

Okay getting a little more time, so here is another memeage from the Music Memoirs:

Top five albums of 2007 (in your opinion), so here are mine in no particular order:

Bloodangel's Cry - Kryperia
The best Eurometal album of the years, and an amazing female vocalist. Great great stuff.


Snakes and Arrows - Rush
It's Rush. Their first full studio album in many years. Fantastic album, and one of their better ones - which is saying a lot, given how many really good ones they have.

No More Kings - No More Kings
A funky rock CD (stylistically closer to Spin Doctors than anyone else I can think of) and with a great sense of fun and heart. With songs like "Sweep the Leg Johnny" A tribute to the movie Karate Kid and "Zombie Me" a fun lighthearted song about becoming a zombie this Cd is really good.

Influence - Shaw and Blades
The best cover album I have ever heard. These guys harmonize so well, and went with 60's harmony songs to cover. Very nice stuff. I just hope we don't have to wait so long for their next CD.

Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace - Big and Rich.
Not their best albums, but it is the one that came out in 2007. I just love these guys - the music mafia are one of my main country sources these days (along with people like Crosscanadian Ragweed, Mickey and the Motorcars and the like).

Tuesday tunage

Open your Itunes or Windows Media or Winamp or whatever music player you use and tell me.

Your top 5 songs:
Your most played artist:
These two I can't answer. I don't keep a "library" of music that tracks how often I play, nor do I rate songs.
How many songs you have on your computer
59,682
The first artist listed alphabetically and the last
Abba to ZZ top

On women

While reading an autobio for fun, I ran across this, and thought to share it.

Let me tell you that a man who sees a woman only as an object to quench his sexual thirst has missed out on one of the most inspiring experiences in life. Mind you- I am not arguing that pleasure in bed with somebody you love is not good. I am saying that there is also a pleasure in being with a woman whose company is fun because she is an interesting human being. The fact that she is also a member of the opposite sex gives her those grace notes that make her song even more pleasing to hear.

-Jack Benny

Dropping in for the Holiday

Just a quick note to say

Happy Thanksgiving

to everyone.

And it's off

Article sent. Was a fun one to do.
Been noodling around with the one after the next one I was going to write (the future one will be fairly long, so I am doing prepwork on it).

Will begin writing the second character article on Mon.
Gives me the weekend off from that, but I am writing stuff for my campaign, and I'll likely be doings stuff for the magic system article (the long one) too - both because I want to work on it, and because I have been having fun writing it. :)

Another quick note

Just finished the first draft of the article. 36 new talents. I go over it again tomorrow for mechanical problems in the builds of the abilites. The wife will do a grammer/spelling/style edit. I'll fix those, and run a second draft.

I'll likely have this off to the editor by Wednesday night.

WooHoo!!

I already have mentally created the characters for the next article, now all I have to do is get it on paper. I'll start that next week. I'll a
llow myself a short break.

Then I have a magic system article to do - which also is great stuff for my Fantasy Hero game. That one will be fun to build - I need to come up with 10 to 15 sample groups of spells (the things revolves around making a deal with a powerful entity, and getting abilities and spells for it). Each sample will be two pages typed, so this will be a huge article. I plan on having at least 4 or 5 "saints" or intersessors, one each of the 4 classic elements, a couple of demons and devils (for the bad guys), and a couple of natural forces (nature, the City and whatnot). Should be fun to write. :)

Then another character article, and one I'm noodling around about familiars. Then another character article.

And if I get one published an issue that is almost a year away. :)