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Indian Princess Emma with Dragon-Rider Penguin

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2012 Race Calendar--First Draft

Milford Road Runners Winter Wonderland 5 Miler Sun., Jan. 29 - 9:30am Platt Regional Tech School, Milford, CT YMCA Sweetheart Run  (4M) Sat., Feb. 11 th  – 10:00 am Booth Hill Memorial Park WSSAC St. Patrick's Day Classic  (4M) Sat., March 17 - 11:00am Fairfield, CT - (203)481-7453 Brian’s Beachside Boogie  (2/10/2) Sun., April 15 – 9:00 am Hammonasett State Park 34th Annual Minute Man Race  (10K) Sunday, April 29 – 8:40am Compo Beach, Westport Ten-Penny Shamrock Duathlon Late May Glastonbury High School, Glastonbury Trifitness Seaside Sprint Triathlon  Sunday, June 10 – 6:30 am Seaside Park, Bridgeport, CT Stratton Faxon Fairfield Half Marathon Sunday, June 24 – 8:30 am Jennings Beach, Fairfield, CT Greenwich Point One-Mile Swim Saturday, July 14 – 7:30am Todds Point, Greenwich CT Bike Challenge  (25, 50, 75 or 100-mile) Saturday, July 28 – 8:00am Fairfield County Hunt Club Tour of Litchfield Hills Sunday, August 5, 2012 Coe Park, Torrington, CT Westport Kiwa

Hannah sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow

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Awesome beer

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Sierra Nevada's hand-crafted Estate.  Note the green wax sealing the bottle. Best beer I've ever had.  Mmmmm...

Dear Wizards of the Coast,

Can you please publish some new upper Paragon or Epic Tier articles in Dungeon Magazine?  Maybe a side quest or two and/or a little campaign through the Hells? Look, I run a game that's headed to the Hells, and yes, I can design a campaign to do what I need it to do.  But I don't feel like I'm real great with setting up the traps and terrain features, and I HATE drawing the battle maps.  It takes for-freakin'-ever! Here's the hook: The drow wizard Asterlix sold his soul to Asmodeus for power but then used that power to turn himself into a lich, preventing Asmodeus from collecting Asterlix's soul.  Asmodeus wasn't happy, but before he had a chance to send the repo man to collect Asterlix's soul, Glasya hired my PCs to go kill Asterlix themselves and take his soul for her instead.  So now my PCs have to deliver the soul to Glasya in the 6th Circle without Asmodeus's minions getting in the way. Awesome, right?  I know. So.  What I need you guy

The Lich's Phylactery

Paragon Artifact (Head Slot) This small crystal skull contains the immortal soul of the lichdrow Asterlix. Property: You gain +2 to Arcana and Dungeoneering. Property: You gain +2 to Perception and Insight checks made against undead. Property: You gain resist 10 necrotic. Property: Utility Power (STD Action) * Daily  ----- Effect: Until your next extended rest, Asterlix can answer up to 3 questions as if you had used the Consult Oracle ritual.  You can spread these questions out over the course of the day. Background In life, Asterlix was a minor mage of House Despana, a minor noble house in the famed drow city Menzonbarrenzan.  Dissatisfied with his lot in life, Asterlix sold his soul to Asmodeus, the King of Hell, for vast arcane powers.  But though Asterlix received the power that Asmodeus promised, he cheated the King of Hell by transforming himself into a lich, thus preventing his soul from ever passing into Hell so long as his phylactery remains intact.  Upon his defeat in batt

Trying to Get Back on Track: NPR’s Top 100 Sci Fi & Fantasy Novels

Wow.  I’ve been way busy.  Busy at work, busy at home, busy with my game  The Sellswords of Luskan .  I broke the cardinal rule and split the party—5 ways!—for a series of vignettes, and managing that has taken all of whatever time I usually have for posting to this blog.  So, while I’ve been meaning to write a full Race Report for the Hartford Half-Marathon, I just haven’t been able to find the time, and at this point, the race is starting to feel like old news.  It was a good race, I’m glad I ran it, and I feel like I ran well, but by now we’re now almost a full week into a planned two-week hiatus, and I feel like I’m not only mostly recovered from the year’s training, I’m actually itching to get back out there.  Weird, I know. In past years, I’ve just loved this time of the season not only because it’s nice to rest but also because it’s nice to reconnect with my family.  But this year is different.  The kids are a little older and more independent this year, I ran my last race as

Little Tipsy

Half-Marathon + Day out with the Kids + 2 Beers + 1 very nice Pinot Noir, albeit one from California.  I'm a little tipsy.  *sigh*

Hartford Half-Marathon

I'm not gonna write a full-on Race Report today, but Sally and I ran the Hartford Half this morning, and I think we both did very well.  I know I was certainly pleased.  I finished in 1:57:45, which works out to be just under 9:00/mile.  My goal was to go under 2-hours, so... hooray! Sally came in at 2:01.  That's easily a PR for her at this distance, and that's totally awesome. And now it's the off-season.  That is also awesome.  Yeah, us!

Weekend Update--A Few Days Late

I’ve scheduled vacation days in any number of different ways these past few years, but this year was a little more challenging because I had to use so many of my days early due to my mother’s hospitalization and passing in the spring.  I nevertheless managed to squirrel away enough time for a week’s outing on Green Lake in Maine, but after that I was pretty much done.  But then we had Hurricane Irene, and my company obliged me by calling me in on a crappy Sunday afternoon and keeping me around for three days straight.  So I wound up with an unexpected bonus-day in lieu of a day spent housebound during a hurricane.  I took that day on Friday, making this past weekend a four-day weekend. If you’re wondering, I’d thought about waiting to take that last day around Christmas but decided to go ahead and take it now because, bottom line, the weather in Connecticut is usually crappy at Christmas time, and more to the point, Christmas is a fine time to be in the office.  No one else is around.