I’ve been in a BattleTech mood lately, so it should come as no surprise to anyone that in the last couple of months I’ve picked up a swag of BattleTech products. I’ve got them in a combination of hardcopy and pdf forms; pdfs for record sheets and OOP books (or ones I only really need a portion of), and hardcopy for the current rules and … Continue reading Recent purchases

Going to be another 40+ degree day here, and it’s already hot. Urgh. Yesterday, we spent a lot of time playing BattleTech. Rich, Josh, Randy and I went at it in two big scenarios; the first a Supply Run of 4 vs 4 Mechs in heavily wooded terrain that lasted about 4 hours (~13 turns).  The next scenario was a Pursuit of 8 vs 6 … Continue reading Hot…

MilSims are back from their holiday back in Canberra, and so have sent me (and it’s arrived) some of my last order. Within the box: BattleTech: Total Warfare – the rules to the game BattleTech Map Set Compilation 1 – 24 maps for BattleTech BattleTech Map Set Compilation 2 – another 22 maps Open Grave – the undead book for D&D 4e Open Grave was surprisingly weighty; I … Continue reading More games (and books)

Merry Christmas everyone! I’ve spent my afternoon at Randy’s place, playing board games (surprise, surprise). I’m now at home waiting for Chrismas dinner, which will probably be followed by a few comedy DVDs – I gave my father the complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus set, along with the Christmas episodes of Dad’s Army. Glenda got a trio of Clint Eastwood movies: The Eiger Sanction, Play … Continue reading Christmas

I’m 36 today. The years are speeding by now. I’ve had a very good year, all things considered, although this isn’t my favourite day of it – I’m stuck at work printing report after report. Given that’s also what I was doing yesterday and most of last week, I’m a bit sick of it now. Happily, I’ve got two new boardgames: Dominion (currently #7 on … Continue reading Birthday fun

It’s been a strange old week; I’ve been feeling mightily out of sorts during it. I’m not ill – at least, I don’t think I am, but there have been a couple of things happening to unsettle me. The major one was the car trouble I experienced on the weekend. My alternator died, so my battery was no longer recharging. This is really, really bad … Continue reading Strange old week

…I’m going to be 36 in a month’s time. Eek. As is traditional, I’ll be celebrating the event at my place on the weekend, which I hope some of my geographically-closer friends will be able to attend. The most likely date at this point is Sunday 14th December. Hopefully, at least someone will be able to come… Continue reading A month until my birthday…

I managed to fulfill one of my longtime ambitions over the past couple of years: I learnt how to play ASL. You have to understand, it’s a game I saw when I was relatively young – at Uni? School? I can’t remember any more – and I was astonished that there was this game that you had to buy the rulebook separately from the pieces. … Continue reading Ambitions

David Tennant is quitting as the Doctor after the four 2009 specials are completed. Steven Moffat will have to choose a new Doctor Who for when he takes over the show for the 2010 season. I’ve found Tennant to be the best of Doctors; I will be tremendously sorry to see him go. I don’t envy the production team the task of finding a replacement. Continue reading NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!