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This weekend I will begin a Dungeons & Dragons campaign with my 12 year old son and a few of his friends. This will be the first time running a campaign in a long time as well as their first time playing (mostly). Throw in the new 5th edition D&D ruleset, and you might be able…
A tough parenting decision once involved Green Day. I will get to that in a moment. Like so many others, I was introduced to Green Day through their single “Longview” and I kind of liked it, especially the bass line. What I was more interested in was how the rest of the album sounded. It wasn’t…
This past weekend saw the first race of the season for our cross country runners. Here they each are as they approach the end. Xavier and Ciárán had a half mile, Déla’s grade does a mile, with middle school doing a mile and a half. August wasn’t quite prepared for that but he never gave…
We are coming close to the end of August’s Geek Fuel subscription. Next month will be his last, but before we get to that, let’s look at the latest one that arrived the other day. August always enjoys the Geek Fuel box, especially the shirts. This month was no different. There was even something in…
I grew up on Star Trek. In the 70s “Star Trek” was popular in syndication. I remember watching “Star Trek: The Animated Series” on Saturday mornings. This was, at the time, epic storytelling with a science fiction setting, and often with some sort of message that was hidden in the action. One of the things…
I met Chuck D once. I think it was 2002 at the Consumer Electronics Show. I was attending as press, covering whatever there was for video games at the time. He was there to talk about online music distribution. He knew that was where the future would be. We ran into each other, just about…
Let’s kick things off with a cute picture of Tevye sleeping. These next four pictures are from earlier this week. I think. The kids are waiting for school to start. Or something. Wednesday was the first Cub Scout pack meeting, and August didn’t get to go for the first time since he is now a…
After the unceremonious cancellation of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” we got “Star Wars: Rebels” which aims to help fill in some gaps between the films Revenge Of The Sith and A New Hope. By creating a new cast of characters we are getting a fresh look at not necessarily the rise of the Galactic…
Cartoon Network broadcast “LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles” in 2013, a three-part series that took (as one might expect) a comical view of the Star Wars universe. In 2014 Disney XD broadcast “Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles”, a four-part series that changes the name slightly in order for Disney, which now owns Star…
There it sat, unused for these past few months. With warm weather and vacations there was no need for it. As the school year begins the weather turns and activities ramp up. This means less time to prepare warm dinners that are ready to eat when the family needs to be. And so the Crock…