It's been a while!

It has been a long time since I posted.
We have a new computer, and I just put blogspot in as a bookmark. Hopefully that will cause me to return and post here.
I don't have much exciting to report today, but hopefully I'll have interesting bits of information to convey soon.

Kris Kinder Update

Kris Kinder was a success! I sold quite a bit of armour and such, and talked with a bunch of people. In some ways K. K. is one of my favorite events. I have a relatively comfy place to sit, while everybody I know wanders by to talk to me. Also I get to spend the day talking about armour. On the other hand, being outgoing all day really wears me out. I am always exhausted for a couple days afterword.

In other news,
Anne is finishing her semester this week. Her giant paper is due later today, along with most of her grading. I helped her stay up really late last night finishing the grading. It was a little miserable, but actually pretty fun. I haven't stayed up all night working on something in a really long time. Though I realize this morning why I don't just stay up all night for fun. It kind of hurts the next day.

Pictures as promised

Here we go, only a little late.

I'll have more early next week, and hopefully a full rundown on how Kris Kinder went.

The point of this weblog

Wow. It's been a long time since I posted. There is not much interesting going on these days.
I have found a new online comic. It's called "questionable content" Funny Funny stuff.
Also, as per the original purpose of this weblog, I have some new armour to show off.
I don't have any new pictures, but I plan to bring some home with me today, and take pictures!
Woo!
I'll post them tonight if you're lucky!

Other than getting ready for Kris Kinder, I have nothing interesting going on in my life.
Anne is crazy writing papers, I'm crazy working on armour.
In a couple weeks, our lives will go from crazy busy to boring.
Then I still won't have much to say.

New Churburg book!

I got my new Churburg book today!
I got my new Churburg book today!
It came via fedex about 15 min. ago!
OMG it's great! OMG IT'S GREAT!

WOO!

Diane Rehm Show!

My email was read on the Diane Rehm Show!
Now all 29 other fans of NPR know and can share in my pain!
You can listen to it here.
Over all, it's not just all that exciting, but I emailed her with more or less the text of my last post.
Very Exciting!
Woo!

I'm mad as hell!

There were some problems at my polling place. Everyone in the Gardenside subdivision (a heavily democratic area) within St. Louis city has their name in the same book, so my Anne and I had to wait an hour in line while the four other lines in the polling place had no lines at all. The line was nearly twice as long when we left at 8:00am than it had been an hour earlier.

In talking with my 50 new friends in the line, I found out that no-one or nearly no-one in the Garden district had recieved voter registration cards, sample ballots, or indeed any information at all from the board.

The poll workers were also asking for photo ID. I don't know if that really matters, since nobody had voter ID cards anyway.

The line snaking it's way all the way around the room had the effect of Not providing any privacy for folks voting.

Was this a plot to supress Democratic votes? I'm not sure.
On the other hand, I'm not sure it wasn't. It sure smells funny.