Author: Gareth

Kinda Creepy.

I went to my blog page today (’cause I’m lazy, and the links at the left there are the fastest way for me to reach the blogs that I read daily), and my background image, the geodesic dome, had been replaced by a full-color picture of the World Trade Center collapsing.

I lost some folks there. It’s a touchy subject with me. Needless to say, this simultaneously pissed me off and creeped me out.

I went to my template page, trying to figure out what’s up–but when I reloaded the page, everything was fine again. The geodesic dome was back.

Strange.

GMS

Really, really busy. I’m currently in the midst of:

* Cranking out 60K worth of an adventure for a freelance contract

* Leaving my Corporate Hell job for the rough-and-ready wilds of Freelancing

* Packing up the contents of my house

* Getting ready for GenCon in Indianapolis next week

* Finalizing moving details (utilities for old house and new, moving van, etc.)–because we move literally the day after I get back from GenCon.

Earlier parts of this week were spent hosting a visit from the SO’s parents, and paying a little over $700 in fines and fees to get my driver’s license re-instated (despite the fact that there was no actual suspension. I’m still trying to figure that one out. At this point, I shrug and say “New Jersey.” That pretty much sums it up.).

Probably not a lot in the way of updates coming for a while. Once life has settled into something resembling normalcy, I’ll be back.

GMS

Dum-de-dum, Dum-de-dum, Dum-de-dum…

Richard Grant has been announced as the Ninth Dr. Who: The BBC is foisting off the 40th anniversary of the show with a webcast rather than a full-blown TV show or movie, but it’s official nonetheless. A six-part audio webcast on BBCi will be premiering in November. Grant describes his interpretation as “something of a ‘Sherlock Holmes in Space,” which sounds cool to me. The author of the as-yet-untitled adventure, Paul Cornell, says that it’s going to be fully-animated (not just moving stills, like the past webcasts), and that it could lead to “other things”–apparently including a series of Ninth Doctor books.

Oh, and I’d also like to share the following:

Conventions are really hard work.

Thanks to Elissa for taking the picture, and, of course, to Red, for showing the world the proper care and feeding of the North American Game Designer. Heh.

GMS