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I headed up to Indy Wednesday morning, easy drive, recharged AC in the Impala doing what it's supposed to. Got into town, had some confusion about directions to a new storage unit, got things sorted, went to the ICC to set up the booth and that's when I started suffering the effects of only eating a couple of donuts so far in the day. Nearly passed out a couple of times. Got helped back to the hotel, started cooling off, ordered a pizza, went to bed.

Thursday morning, much better. First of the weekend's breakfasts at the Jugs Catering tent. Incredible sales on Thursday - the second biggest single-day total we've ever had at GenCon. Picked up a couple of things from Green Ronin, company dinner, sleep.

Friday, good sales but down from Friday. Played the upcoming Cyberpunk Legends card game and proceeded to sign up for an early order. Played some BattleTech until midnight or so.

Saturday was my day off, and I slept in. Some more BT, then a Cypher RPG session. Good times at the tables. BattleTech Gothic looks good, but not enough that I'm buying into it.

Sunday, we sold out of everything we had at the booth, including display/demo copies. Tore down the booth in under 45 minutes. Drove home, unpacked, started sorting purchases, slept so very well.

After Wednesday, the weather was delightful. A cold front blew in and knocked air temps down into the upper 70s.

Most of the publishers I heard from reported very good sales, and overall good table experiences. The Exhibit Hall was busy, of course, and props to GenCon for implementing and enforcing a policy banning wagons and carts and strollers-as-wagons in the hall.

It was a good time, a good crew, and I got to see a number of friends and chat briefly with Mike Pondsmith and Mike Stackpole and Ken Hite. Got stuff to read and four new Mechs.

This weekend was the twice-or-so-yearly Hex family retreat. This time around we assembled at Lake Cumberland - and it may say something about our luck that we were at a lake on a weekend when the regional forecast called for six to twelve inches of rain along with the chance of tornadoes. We sure got the rain, and it was plenty stormy sometimes, but we had a good time playing games and eating and telling stories.

Saturday night had one of those great moments. After the second game of the day and before dinner, Josh and Leighton and I were standing on a covered deck looking over the lake. The most recent storm front had blown through, there was some light rain and wind, and just this energy. We were having a great talk, watching clouds and rain. It was unquantifiable, but it just was the best feeling.

I gave Shadowdark another shot, mostly because Josh is a heck of a GM. I'm still not sold on the game. I don't dislike it, but it's just adequate for me. DCC and OSE are better for what I want, except for OSE's Vancian spellcasting. Shadowdark's simple character classes are a selling point, but on the whole, I don't really get what the fuss is about.

I read Scalzi's When the Moon Hits Your Eye instead of playing Runequest, and damned if that wasn't a heck of a good novel. Scalzi presents an utterly ridiculous event - the Moon turning into cheese - and plays the results completely straight. I loved it.

More revisiting of long-idle projects on Sunday during a couple of races. Dug into some of the Mars stuff that I'd written for Shadow of the Beanstalk years ago. Cut some of the extraneous meandering ideas out, made it a tighter, leaner scenario.

Big day for Mars in gaming today. The crowdfunding campaign for the Terraforming Mars RPG launched today, and of course I went in on it. Reasonable pledge level, the core book and the campaign guide. There's a ton of digital content added on thanks to stretch goals and the like. I love the board game - and its iOS adaptation - and will at least get this on a table at some Nerd Louisville event or another.

Also launching today, the new edition of Cold City/Hot War. Tight, brilliant horror games set in postwar Berlin and post-nuclear London. I had the originals and sadly sold them off in one of my bookshelf purges, and I've regretted doing that for a long time. And now, future me gets a present!

There was even one more campaign that I'd been interested in - books of maps for modern/near-future games. I talked myself out of that one - I use maps and minis rarely enough, and I'm waiting for Loke to deliver on the set that I helped crowdfund last year.

Saw some interesting things today. A Rumpke garbage truck caught fire on 64 this morning - thankfully he was eastbound and it didn't affect my commute and the crew got out safely. In the afternoon, on my way back from a client visit, I saw an unusual locomotive on a bridge over 9th Street. More interesting were the cars it had in tow - a track inspection train! I got a decent short video of it and dug into railpictures.net and found a picture of the very same train during a run through Georgia.

Saw Captain America: Brave New World last night. Did not like it - there's some great talent on the screen with so very little material to work with.

Had a very good time at RiverCityCon. Games went well - my DCC sessions, the Castles & Crusades game I played in, and some board games with a couple of Louisville friends I should have spent some time with long before now. DCC at fifth level is just bonkers - characters getting multiple action dice, huge bonuses and big dice for warriors and dwarves and thieves. I stopped reminding players of the second dice after about an hour - I had enough to manage on my side of the screen.

The Tuesday night group wrapped up the Dragonbane campaign last night. I was sick - more in a moment - and sat out the session. They opted for another Dragonbane campaign, and I'm going to sit it out, at least for a while. The monthly OSE game is great. The Tuesday night group is fantastic. But, like things were a few months ago, I'm playing enough fantasy.

Probably unrelated, I've had the hardest time writing a scenario for my Cyberpunk Red game. Players gave me some great ideas; I just haven't been able to do anything with them. I'm experiencing some kind of burnout or more likely a creative logjam. My players deserve good games, darnit.

So, yesterday. Woke up not feeling well - body aches, headache, fever, sore throat. Took a shower, wobbled my way back to bed and emailed the boss to tell her I was taking a sick day. Crawled under the blanket and went right back to sleep. Fever went away mid-afternoon, and many hours of sleep helped. Still had a headache when I got up this morning, but it wasn't enough to keep me home for another day.

There's some kind of respiratory virus going around, and it got hold of me and I do not recommend it. It's like a mild case of flu that just won't go away. Been doing all the standard remedies - fluids, rest, vitamins, all that. Reminded again that orange juice is just delicious and I should drink more of it.

The funk really hit me on Friday. I went home early, had to skip out on the staff holiday party and cancel the evening's Cyberpunk game. Went to bed early that night, woke up way too early, slept and rested as much as I could, repeated last night/this morning.

Tomorrow's going to be a day. Got one of my unhoused clients into one of our transitional houses and I'm moving him in. The other resident has overstayed his time there, has an apartment lined up and paid for through Section 8, but doesn't want to move. Going to have to lean on him a little bit to get this sorted out.

I'm probably going to spend tomorrow night here to recover. Housemate is leaving for his family stuff before my workday ends and having the place to myself for the night sounds delightful. I'll wake up early, alarm or no, get things together, and light out. Should be a good getaway, with a couple of NFL games on Christmas Day.

Read a couple of stories from Burning Chrome yesterday, finished Mechatron (MYZ) today, and started Those Dark Places this evening. Mechatron's interesting, and I guess I'll get more out of it when I read the other MYZ books from a recent bundle purchase.

Exhausting day. Went in a little early to work on some applications, and a client came to the center out of the blue. Since I was there, bosslady asked me to see what was going on. Client had left her home and slept on the sidewalk in front of the center. She's been hard to locate, and isn't taking her medications, and there's a lot of family drama - her daughter is her legal guardian - and it's just been a LOT to deal with. I managed to get her in a decent state of mind, and into a shelter for the evening. I talked with her daughter off and on during the day, and daughter swore out a MIW with the hope that client can be admitted to a longer-term stay following the mandatory evaluations.

The afternoon was better. Bolstered by a double cheeseburger at Culver's and some WFH time. Then the good ol' GT7 workout and some episodes of The Crown.

I almost feel like I accomplished something today.

I'm slowly making my way through the pile of gaming books - print and digital - I acquired in the weeks leading up to and including GenCon, and have finally made some progress on a novel I started reading about the time I ended my exile.

God's Teeth, for Delta Green, is a stellar set of operations spanning 20 years. Even as DG scenarios go, this one is dark as fuck. It does a lot with the idea of leaving the most horrific stuff up to the reader, to good effect. You know better than someone else what'll get under your skin and into your head, after all.

Symbaroum Adventure Collection 4 is alright. I kind of raced through it, as I have no real expectation of ever running either adventure. Still, it's a Free League product, so the writing is good enough to enjoy on its own.

Got a PDF copy of The Morrow Project 4th Edition on the cheap - probably a DTRPG Deal of the Day. This is sure a product of its time. I like rules-heavy systems with plenty of minutiae - heck, I could probably run a Spycraft 2 game on short notice - but I really don't need a couple of charts to determine the wind chill factor and its damage to a character. And let's not even go into the hit locations and damage multipliers and all that. The idea of the game is in my wheelhouse, though, and I could do something with it using a system that doesn't suck the enjoyment out of the room.

Augmented Reality is a darn good system- and setting-agnostic book full of tables for detailing a cyberpunk city. Buildings, people, events, lots of good stuff. I've already started using it in my CP Red game - as much as I like the Donjon, this looks like a much better resource.

Not sure what'll be next. There's the rest of Symbaroum's huge published campaign. A collection of DG operations, one of which I ran for the Somerset store group. The DCC Day stuff. The Cyberpunk Edgerunners box. Outgunned. The Numenera starter box. It's an embarrassment of riches.

Oh, the book! Cahokia Jazz. Pretty darn good detective story in an alternate America where the Native nations held onto power and Cahokia takes the place of St. Louis as one of the Midwest's capitals.

Yesterday was my six-month mark at work. I haven't yet applied for a different position, but I'm making a small list.

Wednesday afternoon, a strong thunderstorm popped up while I was assisting a client down in Shively. It dumped a lot of water and the lightning scared the client, and all of that combined to delay my departure by about an hour. The storm knocked the heat off quite a bit, enough so that I was able to leave the car's AC off for the drive to Indy.

Thursday morning, things too off in a hurry. We're letting the Mistborn license expire, so we marked down everything we had at the booth. The last few copies of the board game went in a hurry, and the RPG products sold off quickly enough that we had to adjust the bundle pricing for those often. We had a small shipment of a new board game, Sardegna, on hand, and it sold well. Thursday's total sales came to about half of the booth's cost, and that put us all in a good vibe. Dinner at Union 50, then back to the hotel.

I slept in Friday - normally, I work morning shifts at the show, but traded with another staffer who needed the favor. Did some shopping - The Borellus Connection for The Fall of Delta Green and the core and a supplement for Outgunned. Did my afternoon shift, sold product, closed the booth.

Saturday was my day off. Tried getting into a Night's Black Agents game with some generic tickets, but no luck. Checked the event schedule and found an Unisystem-powered Dark Tower game, and was able to join that one. The GM was really good, and it was a darn good game. Got lunch at a chicken and waffles truck, then went back to the hotel for a nap. Got a FB message from a buddy asking if I would mind picking up some miniatures for him - sure, I replied. And then he sent me the list and the money - yay PayPal - and it was a doozy. About $400 for some Kingdom Death stuff - about ten models. That would pay for a LOT of BattleMechs. Then it was time for my second game of the day - Numenera. Great GM, great group of players, and we all got starter boxes for the game. I had an invitation to the Hunters Entertainment party that evening, but was tired and waved off.

This morning, breakfast with Alex before opening up the booth for the last day of my seventeenth GenCon. Brisk sales again. Less than ten copies of Sardegna left when my shift ended. Said my goodbyes, bought a softcover DCC rulebook for a co-worker, packed up the car, and headed south. Delivered the Kingdom Death stuff. Went home, unpacked, started laundry and added the new purchases to the stack of stuff to read.

Breakfast most mornings was at a caterer's tent - scrambled eggs, hash browns, sausage links, little donuts, and apple butter for $10. Heck of a deal, and quite filling and tasty. Dinner at Union 50 was good. Got some pizza from Hot Box, of course.

GenCon is increasingly looking less and less like me, and I am here for this diversity. Both of my GMs this year were women. Our Buru tables drew lots of attention, as did the Tabriz prototype - Indonesian and Persian art drew people in. Lots and lots of Gaymer and flag ribbons. Such a good thing to see.

Free League announced a second edition of the Alien RPG; unrelated, they won the Ennie for Fan Favorite Publisher. God's Teeth (Delta Green) got Best Long-Form Adventure. Catalyst is leaning into the joke with a lance box of UrbanMechs - and another box of UrbanMech LAMs. This is delightfully bonkers.

I'm GenCon tired. It's a good kind of tired. I kinda want to take a nice hot bath before bed, let my feet work out the soreness. I think this is my last con of the calendar year. I may fly out west next spring for Crafty's 20th anniversary con, and there are small shows on the calendar in 2025, but this should be it for 2024. It sure was good to be back.

I got back from Charcon a few hours ago. I'm calling it a successful convention weekend. I ran one of the two games had scheduled, played some pickup board games, had meals at a great late-night calzone place and Tudor's and a hibachi food truck. And got to see some friends - the most important part of the trip!

Something caused a fire alarm to go off in the middle of my Saturday morning game, so we evacuated the building. That ate up about 20 minutes of table time, and I had to compress the final encounter into a narration, but it was still a good time.

A tornado hit west Louisville on Thursday. A short-lived EF-1, on the ground for about three blocks out around Cypress Street. We have some clients in group homes over there, and I was there for visits on Wednesday afternoon. Not much damage, thankfully.

Good Cyberpunk Red session last night, with a new player dropping in. She got onboard fast and helped drive the game. I hope she sticks around.

Haven't done much of anything today. Napped a lot, got in my GT7 workout, double-checked my Charcon material - still waiting on the GM badge code to arrive. I'm chalking this up to my body telling me to get some rest, and having done so, I'm going to try to get some things done this afternoon and evening, since plans got scuttled. Let's see how that works out for me.

And I'll be darned. The Charcon code just popped up in my Gmail box.

It is June, therefore it is hot and since I am a delicate flower I do not like it at all. During the monthly meeting for my position, the head CM always asks what our favorite thing about the current month is, and I answered nothing. There is nothing about this month that I like.

I'm at Mom&Dad's this weekend, doing Father's Day stuff with Dad. He declared that it's too hot to go to the lake, and I am just fine with that. We picked up my car yesterday morning, and the body work is just about perfect. I need to get the front end aligned soon, probably before Charcon.

Charcon! Four weeks until I head into the depths of the Appalachians for a weekend of games. And maybe a detour to Point Pleasant for some of the Mothman Museum's root beer. Gonna see some of my favorite folks, too.

Asmodee confirmed last week that development on X-Wing and Armada was at an end. This wasn't much of a surprise. AMG's indifference to Armada was maybe less damaging than their clear lack of any good ideas about X-Wing. So, after a decade of dogfighting and fleet engagements, the lines have come to their end. There's already talk about community groups continuing work, and some is already being done. A couple of folks in my Tuesday night RPG group asked about playing, and since there are some second edition squadron builders still out there, I'm going to get my collection out of the closet and play the old game again.

Did I mention that it's really hot?

One of my games went off. I played in a couple of others. Saw some Lexington friends.

Lexicon is a board game con, and if you're not there for that, and especially for whatever classic and/or darling of the year that the organizers are in love with, you're a second-class citizen. Minis and RPG folks are shunted off to a very loud room, and it looks like more board game tables are going to be placed in the RPG space. So, we're not only ghettoized, but we're going to be colonized. Yay.

Shadowdark is a really good game. From my experience, it seems to walk a line between OSE and DCC, and that's right up my trad-fantasy alley at present. The Electric State ... it's interesting to see how far stripping down the MYZ engine can go, but the setting just left me cold. That may be due to the GM, however. Whatever. I have plenty of games.

And playing Coriolis was good. I'm taken with the setting, in its Third Horizon incarnation, anyway. I went in on the Kickstarter for Great Dark, then canceled my pledge after seeing the Great Dark preview release. Not really to my taste.

I am so ready to go back to work, even if it's going to be living out of hotels for a few weeks.

I'm quietly but deeply pissed about the Escape. This dipshit mechanic screwed up the work, and convincing me otherwise isn't going to be easy.

Got the PDF copies of the second Blade Runner RPG scenario, Fiery Angels. Not as taken with it as the one from the starter set. It does pull some pieces from the Westwood BR PC game from way back when, and that was a pleasant surprise.

Well, things didn't go as hoped. I picked up the Escape and noticed right away that it wasn't shifting right. Revving too high and gear changes not happening as quickly as they should. Somehow coolant and transmission fluid got mixed. The coolant reservoir fractured, spraying the mix of liquid all over the engine bay and the underside of the hood. Not good at all, and the transmission may be fucked thanks to the contamination. So, here we are again.

New employer pushed my start date back to next Monday. I should have something set up by then. I have to, because I am running out of ... everything down here.

The FNSLGS that became a pillar of support for me during this ill-advised self-imposed exile got hit with some kind of nasty tax liability this week. Bad enough that the state required the store to stop doing business until they can make a downpayment on the bill. Its a backbreaking hit, and the store has launched a crowdfunding campaign to try and stay afloat. I can't help right now, it's kicking my ass. Lemonjuice McGee's is a good store, building good communities in an area that needs them. I hope they get through this.

I'm going to go get in some Gran Turismo time. Taking my refuges where I can this morning.

At some point, some twit put the idea of me being a teacher into my mom's head, and like some kind of memetic virus, it spread to Dad, and one of them would vomit this wholly groundless idea up whenever I expressed any interest in finding a different job.

Jesus fucking Christ, it got old, and they would not let it go. So help me, if I was given some kind of godlike power, I would travel through space and time to find the source of this nonsense and choke them into unconsciousness every day of their lives. Dad brought it up again last weekend and I managed to keep my temper in check. So, to hopefully shut this up forever, I accepted an invitation from the county's school system superintendent to meet and talk about it.

And guess what?

To paraphrase Rick Deckard, I was uninterested when I walked in there, and I'm twice as uninterested now. Dad hasn't asked, and I haven't offered, but I'm going to bring it up tomorrow and tell him straight up that I never want to hear the foolish notion again.

Even writing this has just made me ridiculously cranky. It's fucking absurd.

Let's just keep the hate flowing.

Evil Genius Games (loathe their name, their little logo, their license-chasing business model) licensed an upcoming Zack Snyder/Netflix property. EG's now sued Netflix over Netflix pulling the plug on the TTRPG, claiming ... stuff. I think this is a case where both sides are wrong, and EG's chief is making some utterly absurd claims about the game's popularity. The rather good Linda Codega has the story here.

I bailed on one OSE game and quickly found myself recruited into another. First session is this coming Wednesday. Fingers crossed.

This hasn't been a great week. No progress on anything. Did get to have dinner at Ramsey's when I took Dad to Lexington, so there was something positive. And Delta Green provided a high point, even if the current operation is suffering from having too much stuff shoved into it.

This weekend is the county's big fall festival, and I have succeeded in avoiding just about every bit of it. Dad's doing a bunch of stuff with some fundraising group and with a singing group he rejoined, and that's great, but I got tired of the constant nagging about going to the festival and ... just being there, I don't know. I go to GenCon, and that's enough time spent around thousands of people that don't know how to behave in public for one year, thanks. There will be a nice fireworks show to close things out later tonight, and I could probably find somewhere to watch it, but I think Svengoolie and an old monster movie will win out.

I need to make myself do something tonight, even if it's just replying to some messages. I got in around 12:15AM, read for a couple of hours, and slept until nearly noon. I'm rested, mostly, but time is wasting, and I have less and less of it to use in any fashion.

Had a couple of good game sessions over the weekend - Delta Green on Friday and Old School Essentials on Sunday. The little community in the Somerset store is becoming a good group of friends, and they're helping me handle this self-imposed exile.

Sadly, that's about all I remember of the weekend. Well, watched a little pre-season football with Dad. I wasn't drunk or anything, I just didn't do anything, and wasn't very happy with myself. I guess I read some, wrote a tiny bit, watched hurricane forecasts. Not much else.

The storm, Idalia, hit Florida pretty hard between Tampa and the panhandle, then shot across southeastern Georgia and into South Carolina. I have a few people down that way, and as far as I know, everyone's okay. I'll still keep an eye on reports for a day or two.

The third episode of Ahsoka was heavy on action, but it felt like half of an episode.

I need to get a haircut, and that'll probably happen tomorrow morning. Right now, that's what's passing for excitement of any kind.

Dad asked if I was okay this morning, concerned, I guess, that I wasn't as talkative as I sometimes am. I just told him that I didn't have anything to talk about, and that's true enough. Alongside that, I didn't want to talk, because I don't know if I'd be able to shut up before I said something that would, I don't know, go too far or reveal too much or lead to more questions or something.

Welp, the last few days have been exciting.

About an hour after I posted the previous entry, I saw on the company Discord that someone had dropped out of the GenCon team. I filed it away for an hour or so before deciding to get in there and make this about me. And so my planned day trip to GenCon became a three-day working vacation.

Drove up to Indy Thursday night, taking over five hours thanks to construction up and down I-65. Got to the Hilton, chatted and got updates from the team, called it a night.

Wasn't scheduled to work Friday, so I decided I'd get in some time in the Exhibitor Hall and open play area. Headed to the R. Talsorian booth first off to get Danger Girl Dossier. Good fortune smiled on me, and I got to chat with Mike Pondsmith and Steve Jackson for a few moments. Went to Free League and Modiphius, striking out at both places, then drifted over towards the Goodman space. All around good dude Dieter Z was working a booth next to Goodman that was moving someone's overstock, so I got a copy of Night's Black Agents: Solo Ops for $10 - and would get The Dracula Dossier Director's Handbook for $10 on Saturday, leading me to swing by Pelgrane and just finally get the core book Sunday morning. I'm not made of stone, okay, and Mr. Laws and Mr. Hite were there and graciously signed the book and took a few moments to chat with a fan.

Saturday - taught one of our upcoming games, Buru. Very pretty, quite fun. Saw some of the Louisville folks. Played BattleTech. Had some tasty barbecue - brisket served over smoked gouda mac and cheese. Retired to the hotel for a nap. Dinner at Giordano's and boy-howdy do they serve up a killer deep dish. Turned down an invitation to a product release party.

Sunday, pickup game of a Shadowrun card game. Met a Discord acquaintance face-to-face. More Buru teaching. Closed down the Exhibitor Hall for the first time since 2019. Delicious tacos for dinner.

Drove home this morning.

A few big stories from the con:
The Disney TCG was in great demand, and GenCon screwed things up pretty badly Thursday morning after the publisher had set things up nicely. An orderly line - one that started forming at 6PM Wednesday - became an ugly mob around 7 Thursday morning.
A couple of dudes got into the hall staging area and stole about $300,000 in collectible cards.
Free League won SEVEN Ennies across their various lines.

It was good to be there again, and it is sure good to be home. Gotta finish laundry, and finish winding down. Gods help me, I have missed working that show.

We sure enough got some rain. A few branches down here at the farm; trees down at a church just down the road, and an EF-1 tornado about eight miles from here. Very exciting. On top of that, the storms washed out much of the smoke from the ongoing Canadian wildfires, and the air is the clearest it's been in a week.

Tomorrow's Independence Day, and I don't know if there's much I'm up to celebrating, what with the Supreme Court's recent and ongoing fuckery. It's hard to acknowledge any kind of legitimacy in these black-robed warlocks.

Got my PDF copy of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG this morning. Haven't done much more than skim it today; I do like what I've seen and I expect I'll run a session or two of this one sometime.

I've got the core of my Cyberpunk Red group back on board, and a couple of folks in mind to take the places of the players I didn't invite back. I'll probably keep parts of the previous story going, and mix in most of the stories from Tales of the Red.

I've had some decent days lately. Rode around with Dad on a clumsy but ultimately successful attempt to find a boat repair place someone had suggested to him. I'm continuing to burn through the Netflix DVD queue before that service sadly comes to an end in a few months - Tubi has helped with that, too.

Got a lead on a Delta Green game, and I'm looking forward to seeing how that shakes out. I thought that last night was going to be the session, but I misread the store's calendar. Saved myself a drive when I checked again before heading out and saw that last night was D&D night, and, no thanks. So, I ordered a pizza and settled in for some reading ... and that became some writing, and hokie-smokes did that feel good.

Today started pretty well. Dad needed a few things for some baking wanted to do for the reunion today, so off we went to the grocery. After that, I felt the need for some tea and the Escape needed fuel, so stopped at the large convenience store/small truckstop for such. On the way out of the store, my clumsiness reared its head - I smacked my left wrist against a doorframe and popped the screen right off my smartwatch. Its battery had started to swell up (it's six years old, after all) and had pushed the screen up a little bit, so it was probably just going to happen eventually. Anyway, it wasn't reparable by my hands, so I just replaced it this afternoon. It's currently syncing with the phone, and I have a shipping label ready for sending the old one off for recycling.

The reunion was okay. I had pie. That was about it.

It's Memorial Day weekend. Somewhere along the line, it became a thing here in the South(ish) to add flowers and decorations and whatnot to the graves of any and all relatives. I'm not much for that, but since I failed to do so for Mother's Day, I got a nice simple bouquet for Mom's grave. It's pretty, quite colorful, and she would have loved it.

Goshdarn it, Mom, I miss you today.

The Indy 500's tomorrow, and coverage of the Monaco Grand Prix, too, so there's my afternoon soundtrack sorted out. Dad's already promised to not ask me to go to church with him.

Monday's the holiday itself, and the Honor Guard Dad's part of will have a part in the town's observance. That, I will definitely attend. He's proud of this continued service and universe knows it does my heart good to see him enjoying this.

The phone and new watch are still syncing, so I think I'm going to get some reading in (Magician: Master, by Raymond Feist, for the record).

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Highway 61 Revisited

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Please Come Home

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Need Something More

Northern White Clouds

Patterns

You're all I Need to get By

What we Had

Down to the Well

From the Iron Horse

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The Shadow of Her Smile

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