Picture improving...

I stayed up until 11:15 last night. But for once, I actually feel good about it. Why? Because I finally updated my RuneQuest site for the first time in many months.

Part of it was relatively routine stuff. But the RuneQuest scene has been heating up lately. Chaosium has published some monographs (essentially printed PDFs) which are apparently the RQ3 rules with the name "RuneQuest" taken out. Word is that these are placeholders (they're actually all sold out right now), and that they plan to release a deluxe edition - an "Advanced" Basic Role-Playing - which will include the RQ3 rule system with additional rules taken from other BRP games, such as Ringworld. If this is true, they'll be turning RQ into a true multi-genre system, which is something I recommended many years ago.

Will they go further, and make it open license or something like it? I don't know. d20 may have that market locked up. But we'll see.

If Chaosium succeeds in making RQ a viable commercial entity again (even under a different name), of course my site will support it.

Another reason I worked on my site: I've been getting emails from people with RQ sites, some sending me materials to post. Nice to know that the site still gets some attention.

The one thing that sucked about the updating was that I was still unable to FTP. And I didn't even have the latest files on my system. So I had to:

1. open the site in my browser
   
2. view and save the source HTML for each page I wanted to edit
   
3. edit each file
   
4. use the File Manager utility of CPanel to put them back up - which meant uploading them one at a time to a temporary folder, then moving them into the public html folder.
   

Tedious.

Ironically, this morning I got a message from the FuitadNET help desk suggesting a fix for the FTP problem - which worked! Go figure.

Anyway, it felt good to work on something again.

Picture improving...

I stayed up until 11:15 last night. But for once, I actually feel good about it. Why? Because I finally updated my RuneQuest site for the first time in many months.

Part of it was relatively routine stuff. But the RuneQuest scene has been heating up lately. Chaosium has published some monographs (essentially printed PDFs) which are apparently the RQ3 rules with the name "RuneQuest" taken out. Word is that these are placeholders (they're actually all sold out right now), and that they plan to release a deluxe edition - an "Advanced" Basic Role-Playing - which will include the RQ3 rule system with additional rules taken from other BRP games, such as Ringworld. If this is true, they'll be turning RQ into a true multi-genre system, which is something I recommended many years ago.

Will they go further, and make it open license or something like it? I don't know. d20 may have that market locked up. But we'll see.

If Chaosium succeeds in making RQ a viable commercial entity again (even under a different name), of course my site will support it.

Another reason I worked on my site: I've been getting emails from people with RQ sites, some sending me materials to post. Nice to know that the site still gets some attention.

The one thing that sucked about the updating was that I was still unable to FTP. And I didn't even have the latest files on my system. So I had to:

1. open the site in my browser
   
2. view and save the source HTML for each page I wanted to edit
   
3. edit each file
   
4. use the File Manager utility of CPanel to put them back up - which meant uploading them one at a time to a temporary folder, then moving them into the public html folder.
   

Tedious.

Ironically, this morning I got a message from the FuitadNET help desk suggesting a fix for the FTP problem - which worked! Go figure.

Anyway, it felt good to work on something again.

Dream...

I've been dreaming a lot lately, even for me. And last night something odd happened: I had a nightmare so terrible, so purely awful, that in my dream I said "No, this is too much. I'm waking up now."

And I did, instantly. I've forgotten the details of the nightmare, but that's probably just as well.

I also had a very long and nostalgic dream about the Red Sox, which is also very strange because I'm not that interested in sports. But in the dream I was a huge fan, and chatted with players from past years.

Must be my Boston roots showing, somewhere in my id.

Dream...

I've been dreaming a lot lately, even for me. And last night something odd happened: I had a nightmare so terrible, so purely awful, that in my dream I said "No, this is too much. I'm waking up now."

And I did, instantly. I've forgotten the details of the nightmare, but that's probably just as well.

I also had a very long and nostalgic dream about the Red Sox, which is also very strange because I'm not that interested in sports. But in the dream I was a huge fan, and chatted with players from past years.

Must be my Boston roots showing, somewhere in my id.

Drive-by brain flailings

If they ever film a movie about the life of Isaac Asimov, Al Franken is the guy who should play the lead. The resemblance is remarkable, and I'm sure Al could imitate the heavy Brooklyn accent without too much trouble.

* * *
Amusing idea: a new game called "Bushopoly". Two players vie to be first into the White House. The player with the Bush token gets ten times the money of his competitor, and even if his competitor wins, there is a 90% chance that Bush wins the White House and the game by judicial fiat. It could be kind of funny. I had an idea for some Chance cards, but it slipped my mind. Stuff like "Terror Alert! Your polls rise 5%. Keep this card and use it as often as you like. Card only valid if your name is Bush."

* * *
I wonder if the rising popularity of SUVs, pickup trucks, and vans has changed yard sales? Seems to me that they would make it easier for a large item like a piece of furniture to be an impulse buy, since they have so much more cargo space.

Drive-by brain flailings

If they ever film a movie about the life of Isaac Asimov, Al Franken is the guy who should play the lead. The resemblance is remarkable, and I'm sure Al could imitate the heavy Brooklyn accent without too much trouble.

* * *
Amusing idea: a new game called "Bushopoly". Two players vie to be first into the White House. The player with the Bush token gets ten times the money of his competitor, and even if his competitor wins, there is a 90% chance that Bush wins the White House and the game by judicial fiat. It could be kind of funny. I had an idea for some Chance cards, but it slipped my mind. Stuff like "Terror Alert! Your polls rise 5%. Keep this card and use it as often as you like. Card only valid if your name is Bush."

* * *
I wonder if the rising popularity of SUVs, pickup trucks, and vans has changed yard sales? Seems to me that they would make it easier for a large item like a piece of furniture to be an impulse buy, since they have so much more cargo space.