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Clearing the Shelves

OK, folks–I want to get rid of a bunch of RPG swag that’s just taking up space on my shelves, and before I send them over to eBay, I figured that I’d offer readers of The Designer Monologues the first crack at it.

If you’re interested in anything on the list below, email me and make me an offer. I’ll trade for stuff I don’t have, or settle for cash.

The list:

Babylon 5 Roleplaying Game and Fact Book (D20, from Mongoose).

LUGTrek books: Star Trek TNG, Deep Space Nine, and Original Series RPGs, The Way of Kolinahr–Vulcan sourcebook, The Price of Freedom, and the Original Series Narrator’s Guide.

Men In Black RPG–Rulebook, Director’s Guide and Alien Recognition book

Masterbook: Limited edition hardcover, signed and numbered, with Rules, Bloodshadows and Indiana Jones books bound together.

Jadeclaw: Some Furry wuxia thing.

Blue Planet first edition

Conspiracy X, first edition

Nemesis: A Perfect World (Superhero RPG)

RUNE RPG from Atlas Games

GURPS Traveller: Starports (edited by Yours Truly)

Dying Earth RPG

Undiscovered: The Quest for Adventure– core rules HC, players guide, screen and adventure

Children of the Sun RPG

Silver Age Sentinels: Deluxe Limited Edition (full color HC)

Werewolf: the Wild West

Kindred of the East

Inferno (wargame set in Dante’s Hell)

There ya go, folks. Have at it.

GMS

Drastic Changes

I’m contemplating cutting my hair short and shaving my beard and moustache.

My hair has been short before…most recently back in April of 2002, when I cut it for a job. I’ve been growing it out since then, when I found out that the workplace was OK with long hair. (Of course, I found this out AFTER I had cut it.)

I’ve had facial hair for about 12 years now, though.

So, I’m waiting until I get paid, and then I’m probably going to cut the locks and reveal a smooth face.

I just feel the need for some kind of drastic change….my life has changed (for the better, mostly), and I feel like reflecting that change in my appearance. New year coming, and all that.

Here’s what I look like now:

So…any hairstyle suggestions? My hair is pretty thick…it only gets curly when it’s long, though.

GMS

Gobble

Taking a break from today’s writing to…well, do more writing. A brief rundown of yesterday’s Thanksgiving festivities:

Headed to Topeka for Laura’s family get-together…held at noon for the benefit of the geriatric crowd, and due to the number of folks involved, held in a church hall. Thanksgiving surrounded by wall banners and such helpfully informing all assembled that some chap named Jesus is, apparently, LORD. Good for him. I like Laura’s family, and usually enjoy spending time with them, but at extended-family get-togethers like this, I always end up at some table with a bunch of cowboy-boot-wearing, Republican-voting, senior-citizen second-cousins or somesuch. Yee-fucking-haw.

The good part of this is that we were back home by 2:00, which allowed me to install myself in the kitchen, bust out my wicked-sharp cooking skillz, and have our *own* Thanksgiving feast cooked and on the table by 8:00.

Finished the evening in a Turkey-coma, assisted by a bottle of home-brewed mead, and watched the Thanksgiving Day Marathon of Jon Favreau’s Dinner for Five on IFC.

For those who are not aware, the show is writer/director/actor Jon Favreau (Swingers, etc.) inviting 4 celebrities (usually actors, directors, musicians, etc.) to dinner at a restaurant in either L.A. or New York, and filming as they shoot the breeze. Brilliant stuff. The best episode shown last night was the Daredevil tie-in, with Favreau (who played Foggy Nelson) hosting Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner and Colin Farrell.

That was yesterday. Today, it’s back to work.

The worst thing about being your own boss: You can’t bitch about it when your asshole boss makes you work on the day after Thanksgiving.

GMS