Wanted Man

One of our semi-local Armada guys makes templates and tokens and such for some of FFG's Star Wars minis games. I won a set of his range rulers a while back, and decided that it was finally time to throw some money his way and ordered a tray for the rulers. It arrived a couple of days ago, and it is just gorgeous. Thick, sturdy plastic, Rebel starbird and stripes engraved into the lid, strong magnets holding things together. And it doesn't hurt that Garrett's one of the nicest people in the group.

Mom&Dad's wonderful beautiful Doberman had to go to the vet. He's had a little cyst on his left rear leg for a while, and according to Dad, the cyst had gotten bigger and started to rupture. So, a visit to the doc, and he's patched up, and will have to take antibiotics for a while - which means he'll get a couple months of cheese snacks wrapped around his pills and he will be very happy with that.

Also, down at the farm, a nasty lightning strike near the house ran into the house. Killed both TVs, the satellite radio deck, a DirecTV receiver, and a couple of other things. Dad decided, heck with it, he's spending too much money on the DirecTV subscription, and bought an outdoor digital antenna to go along with his new smart TV. Forty-plus channels, and he's happy and Mom's happy. While having things checked out, they found out that the landline phone was causing a short somewhere in the house's telephone wiring that was doing some kind of fuckery with the DSL link. So, with the phone removed, they're at reasonable broadband speed, and my Netflix account is active on their TV and things are well.

Technology is just weird sometimes.