awesome pictures enron! Love the fish-eye/wide-angle shots you got of Dixit - great stuff!

Images are up.

Password Hint: "What Batman punches the Joker into... Two words, no spaces, no caps". Not sure still? Shoot me an email, I will send it to you.

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I am still dragging ass from the convention. Too much drink, not enough sleep and I have caffeine withdraws. A mark of a good Con. The pictures should be up tonight. I'll post a link.

In the mean time, enjoy:

Here's a post GRRM wrote about the process of writing Dance with Dragons. Interesting stuff (although I'd love to hear more about that process, can't even imagine that amount of effort). One or two fun teasers as well, including one that a POV character who's been missing for a couple books will be back, "much the worse for wear." I'm thinking we're going to see that little shit Theon again!

Aw man! Well, it was fun while it lasted. We could always start it back up someday, right?

Yeah that was a good time. I stayed this afternoon and got in a game of Mansions of Madness with Blackheart and Pumpkin. It was fun... I was going to win on my very next turn, but the investigators managed to go in guns blazing, legs broken and insane to take out the shoggoth. Fun stuff.

Went on a Cracked list-reading jag. This one's good: The 7 Most Badass Weapons Ever Improvised in Battle. "Nobody said it was a good plan. It's like somebody went through an actual strategy and replaced every instance of the word 'tactical' with 'balls out.'"

| Minecraft Canceled

***Goes down 7/6/11, so 1 week left***

Canceled the minecraft server. Just doesn't seem to be anyone playing it enough to keep it going. Maybe again some day in the future. Here is the world if you want to play it in single-player:

Action Team Land

Unzip the folder then put the whole thing in your Saves folder. Quick way to get to the save folder, is in-game, go to mods/textures option and click "open texture pack folder". Once it opens that window, just go back a spot in explorer to ".minecraft" and you will see the "saves" folder. Drop the actionteamland folder into there and then it will be an openable save game (think its named WORLD and subtitled Action Team Land) tried it out - works.

It was a fun run! Thanks guys :)

Awesome convention again, thanks guys! Don't think I played any bad games. The good thing about getting there Thur night was the bonus day of gaming. Bad thing was I was burned out a day early. :( Next time I will def fly so I don't have that stress of having to drive home in the back of my mind. Picked up my girl and was back home by 12:30, so it was a smooth trip home. Still wish I would have got a game of Dungeon Lords in, but there's always next con/man-con(?). Was there ever a bachelor party of enron? Maybe a man-con/bachelor party can happen. I guess you guys might count GenCon as that.

Games! Nice to see you all! Thanks for the game Jon!

Aeryk sleeps in his minivan, like some kind of perverted vagrant.

I think at one of the cons in high school, we had ten or eleven people in ONE ROOM.

| NUUUUUUURDS!

i count 9 attendees

mike, aron, dennis, peter, jon, eric, rude, dave, me. - 9. So two rooms is gonna fit 9? I can't remember what was the max amount of people we've ever had in the room before. Could be more than 5 it seems. but then we used to be able to bring our own sleeping tents and towels. Looks like it's gonna be a rough russian winter.

It might have seem more logical to get 3 rooms...

Okay, jr0n. The parking passes are easy. We just add them to the account and you use your room key for ins and outs (tee hee hee). The first time you come in the garage just grab a ticket.

The BART to hotel shuttle isn't bad. Maybe one of the jArks can pick you up since Friday afternoon parking isn't too bad. Give us a call when you are headed towards SFO on BART.

eNron's games for play:

Iron Dragon
Sushi Roll
Death Angel
Honor of the Samurai
Starship of Catan
Power Grid

To sell:

Wings of War
Democrazy
Cartegena
Luftwaffe
Betrayal at House on the Hill (OG edition)
Gootmu
6 Billion
Arena Maximus
Rail Baron
Guns of August
Pax Britanica

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| Final List

OK, I am about to drop at Enron's:

Mansions of Madness
Dungeon Lords
Cargo Noir
7 Wonders
Chaos in the Old World
Dixit
Space Alert
Bohnanza
Puerto Rico

Mr Pumpkin, any chance you can bring your super-deluxe version of Agricola? Would love to get in a game of that as well.

If there are any other requests I can throw it in the car for transport down on Saturday.

That was funny!

Yes, confirmed for Friday afternoon. Giant beers ahoy! Hopefully about 2:00 is realistic. I could either use a pickup from BART, or if that's a pain in the ass I can figure out a shuttle (I believe there's one from SFO) -- just lemme know and I'll plan accordingly. Also can you take me to the hospital? Because I have these gallstones?

How do parking passes work? The wifey may be dropping the car by early Saturday morning and I'd keep it the rest of the weekend. Don't want to have to find 2-hr parking next to Mr Teriyaki.

I'm so fired up to play some games!!! I better start reading rules tomorrow for the complicated shit.

In "14 hours of Shogun" news, I probably will play in the Warmachine tournament on Saturday, because I know Aeryk wants me to. I haven't played an official event in like ten years! I think there's usually one day per con where I feel sorta burned out, so maybe having something directed to do will alleviate that! Theories!

My final Kubla Con related bombshell is that I will definitely be around until about 3:30 on Monday, so some of you jerks should plan for some extra gaming!

This will be my second weekend of debauchery in a row. Last weekend some of us rented a cabin with Matt in Pt. Reyes. Think houseboat style dietary intake. I sprained my toe doing the caterpillar for the talent show and we played over fifty games of shocker roulette, including once while driving across the Golden Gate Bridge.

| Boobla Khan Time

So here is what I know:

- Mike Hunt and I will arrive Thursday late morning/early afternoon.
- It sounds like r00d is scheduled for around that time or slightly after.
- eLzar is looking like a probable Thursday eve?
- I think DaveDefeat is coming in Friday night, but not sure.
- Pump and Peter RealHard are arriving Thursday eve, but this is a fuzzy memory and could be a lie.
- jr0n is slated for Friday afternoon.
- jA-eL I suspect may or may not show up. If he shows up, he may come sometime between Wednesday at 1am and Monday night at 10pm. Alternatively he could show up the following weekend. He may also go to Vegas. Or Manila. Or he could have Amoebas and Crabs. There is an off chance he could stay home to hang out with his mother. He may also need another room to have foreigner lady/ladyboy dignitaries lavish his 8 inch inseam. Or he may be staying at a room he potentially reserved at the Hyatt on Fisherman's Wharf. He may or may not bring dumplings and dried squid bits for us white people to snack on. He will also bring the random. And a disdain for Kombat Kommander's leader rules.

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Ry, that is pretty sweet. I really enjoy visiting my nephew AND it reminds me I like kids for about 2 hours tops, then I am done. No kids for me, Yay!

Some pre-con entertainment:

Nyan Cat (Poptart Cart) Soul Train Remix:


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Congratulations Ry! That's great news. From one uncle to another, it's easy peasey. Get em something every third x-mas, woo. :)

Goodluck with Amazon Art! I spend so much money with those cocksuckers, you hurry up and get hired so you can give me the scoop on more shit to buy.

Edit: DUMB GAME NEWS: The next big update to Minecraft is supposed to drop next week. Official Nether support (so shit actually works in there like those pig-men), trap doors, billion bug fixes, etc. That should coincide with Convention Time.