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Jun. 28th, 2020 12:37 pmI finished Death's End, and therefore the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, last week. The whole thing is a darned good read even if some of the science involved made me slow down or even stop reading a few times. There are some big ideas at play in these books, and I enjoyed the read, but I don't think this is one I'll revisit.
I'm now about a quarter of the way into Midnight in Chernobyl, by Adam Higginbotham. The Chernobyl disaster was a defining event for this child of the Cold War, even if it was years after the event before I realized how important it really was. I've read a few accounts of the disaster, and Higginbotham's book is pretty highly regarded.
I should pick up my Mariner this week. I'm enjoying the Canyon I'm driving right now, though, and I don't really want to give it back.
The small group size of my Delta Green game showed its first real weakness in Friday night's session. There are some things that more players and their agents would have probably been very helpful with; the existing team didn't fail, but they haven't had the easiest time with the start of the operation, and it's only going to get tougher. I have a guest player in this week, and I'm looking forward to seeing how things go.
Hell of a day in Louisville yesterday. A group of cosplaytriots calling themselves the American Freedom Fighters (cue George Carlin's bit) had announced that they were going to make an appearance at our ongoing demonstrations yesterday, to bring back order and retake the city and all that. The good news is, well, they didn't. All 15-20 of them camped out in a parking lot along River Road and "had briefings" and wandered around feeling like tough guys before going back to whatever logs they live under. Around 9PM, down at the demonstration, a homeless man who had been removed from the area a few times for aggression and theft came back with a gun and opened fire. He killed a photographer and wounded at least one other person before a demonstrator shot him and others disarmed and held him until LMPD took him into custody.
Then LMPD decided that the tent city that had sprung up in the park was the problem and wiped that out. Good job.
I'm now about a quarter of the way into Midnight in Chernobyl, by Adam Higginbotham. The Chernobyl disaster was a defining event for this child of the Cold War, even if it was years after the event before I realized how important it really was. I've read a few accounts of the disaster, and Higginbotham's book is pretty highly regarded.
I should pick up my Mariner this week. I'm enjoying the Canyon I'm driving right now, though, and I don't really want to give it back.
The small group size of my Delta Green game showed its first real weakness in Friday night's session. There are some things that more players and their agents would have probably been very helpful with; the existing team didn't fail, but they haven't had the easiest time with the start of the operation, and it's only going to get tougher. I have a guest player in this week, and I'm looking forward to seeing how things go.
Hell of a day in Louisville yesterday. A group of cosplaytriots calling themselves the American Freedom Fighters (cue George Carlin's bit) had announced that they were going to make an appearance at our ongoing demonstrations yesterday, to bring back order and retake the city and all that. The good news is, well, they didn't. All 15-20 of them camped out in a parking lot along River Road and "had briefings" and wandered around feeling like tough guys before going back to whatever logs they live under. Around 9PM, down at the demonstration, a homeless man who had been removed from the area a few times for aggression and theft came back with a gun and opened fire. He killed a photographer and wounded at least one other person before a demonstrator shot him and others disarmed and held him until LMPD took him into custody.
Then LMPD decided that the tent city that had sprung up in the park was the problem and wiped that out. Good job.