Iminye Shal Tamasi:
Oh Great GM
Will this game ever come back to life?
I confess I do have thoughts of reviving it, at least long enough to finish up some story-lines that were very close to major turning points (yours included). But for the next 8 months, it's off the table -- I have two major trials coming up -- one in St. Louis, starting mid-October, that is expected to last 6 weeks
1, then after the holidays we move into prep/trial in lovely Martinez, California that is expected to be as long as 16 weeks. I still have hopes of that latter one settling before trial, but until it happens, I have to assume it will not.
So we know what Hamble/Charan have been up to. What have the rest of you been up to? We had the kitchen remodeled, hosted the annual
goose dinner (and celebrated the spouse's 50th birthday), I made a
fruitcake (and yes, I actually LIKE fruitcake), we adopted a
cat, to the annoyance of the
dog, I
marched in D.C., then
chaperoned my daughter's 8th-grade class trip there a few months later, I've been to
Nashville and had hot chicken, ran a charity 5k ("ran" -- given how slow I am, we always use air-quotes for my "running" in my house), traveled for business to
Boston,
Las Vegas, Kansas City, Chicago,
Austin,
L.A and Orlando (those last three in the same week), and we visited my parents and sister in Tennessee for the eclipse (sister's house was in the path of totality), which the Boy managed to
capture on his phone. Kids just started school (the Girl started high school, the Boy is in 8th grade), and things are pretty okay here in
Bensalem, outside
Philadelphia.
I also note that among Austin, Nashville, St. Louis and Kansas City, I've had some AWESOME barbecue in the past six months.
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1This is a do-over of one that ended in a mistrial two weeks in, in June when the Supreme Court handed down a
decision that
threw a monkey wrench into the works. June in St. Louis SUCKS, but I
did get to go to the top of the
Arch, and at least I didn't have to spend any of July (much less August in St. Louis.