| Losing the battle against insomnia...

Just finished watching Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian. It was ok. I think the first one was more 'epic'. Especially the battle scene. Not quite as epic as the 30 minute grind fest of Return of the King.. but close. That cavalry charge in "King" still gets me every time. Hard. Core.

Good news: Company distributed boxes of "Edible Arrangements" for the Holidays. I have to say I was seriously surprised by just how awesome+sex these things are. It came with an assortment of fruit dipped in ridiculously delicious chocolate. Orange slices, apple slices, strawberries and even melon. The oranges were liquid schwartz good.

In other good news, I gifted one of my employees with the emergency phone, so I have that little bit of freedom. True, it was kind of a dick thing to do the week of Christmas, but considering I've had the damned thing for about 5 months straight and he was the only other qualified / trained person to handle it... sorry. It was to the point where I've been working 60-70 hours a week and having to answer the damned phone 24 hours a day on top of that.. I was about to crack and the relationship with pregnant wife was getting strained to the breaking point. I feel a little bad straddling the guy with the emergency phone because I know how bad it sucks.. but, it's his turn to spend some time in the barrel. Hoping to get some other people trained over the next month or so, so that we can start a regular rotation of the thing that doesn't last for 4-5 months a stretch. That's just too much.

In other news.. I think we're settling on "Bennett" for the kiddo's name. I still like Beau Jackson Nikisch, but maybe that's just the Raider fan in me. Heh.

My poor Raiders. =/

Will Al Davis ever die? (Does it make me a bad person that I wanted to write "Please?" in these parenthesis?)

Allllllrightie then.

Going to find some bad late night television programming to lull myself into sleep.

(WHY did they cancel New Amsterdam? That show was AWESOME.)

| my first skateboarding video

so i had a gnarly accident a month or so back when i was thrashin in my front yard. i taped it! im healed now so i also tapes the subsequent comeback. Enjoy my first skateboarding video:

RUDYs VIDEO

| happy xmas (war is[n't] over)

| Mancon United

jr0n: That sounds good to me. Count me in. I had a lot of fun last time and hopefully we will be better prepared to run some 4th Ed action this time. Although, I dare say I have forgotten everything we learned at the last Mancon.

Happy Holidays youz jerks!

D>M>

| Man-jo-Man Conbat

Well, the new year is approaching, and since there has been some interest from several actioneers, I thought I'd throw out the ManConToo proposal and see who is theoretically interested.

As a reminder, the general ManCon philosophy is:

1. Hole up in a businessman's hotel, away from your family and loved ones;
2. Play D&D;
3. When not doing #2, take advantage of the "Manager's Special"

Last time Eric, Aaron and I played D&D the whole time and it was a blast. I bet this time, at least muddily understanding the rules and flow of the game and with some advanced preparation, would be even better! Would anybody be interested in doing this the weekend of Friday, January 23rd?