The Mad Devil

So, I did some in person gaming yesterday. In keeping with commentary about isolation, I drove 55 minutes to someone's house in chapel hill and played Draw Steel. First, that is a long ass drive. I am not saying it was not worth it, that is 3 gallons of gas and $20 in tolls, adding $35 on top of the time. Second, I am not sure Draw Steel is for me. I get what it is trying to do. I just don't know that its end goals are what pushes my fun button. It is VERY crunchy. Ver

Got back on the Peloton this morning. First bike since move. It is not set up optimally, but give me an hour and it will be in good shape. I opted for a low impact ride with CDE for a variety of reasons. One, it has been over a month since I rode and I am not ready to get back to crushing hard rides. Two, I tweaked my back lifting something. Stubborn me has not taken the time to let that recover fully, but realist me says don't push it too hard. Three, there is just a

Lots to unpack, I will start with the state of Denmark. Given that my current reader pool is people I know and see on a regular basis, most of you know that in March, we bought a new house, sold my long time backup house, and moved into the new house completing a nine part move spread out over 11 months. It was unpleasant by almost any metric. This last push is complicated by a number of factors. The first and hardest is learning to live with each other after so long apart

I can't say that I love Wix. The engine wants to infer too much and seemingly forgets instructions. Example - I told it not to crop photos when it rearranges. Yet, it still crops. It also can't do some things that seem like they should be possible. For example, if you upload a bunch of pictures, the image data set gets cluttered. You can put in folders and organize, but when you go to add from the image data set, the folders are not present. It can't automatically rena

When I first did this page, back in like 2006? I used Microsoft Front Page. The page was still all about miniatures, dogs, and my love for TTRPGs, but from the point of view of 2000-2010 The Mad Devil. Frontpage was a wysiwyg type program that was good enough. I don't claim to possess a good graphical design eye, so it was fairly rudimentary. It also took forever to upload pictures and there was a lot of formatting that I had to do "by hand." That is, I could point and cl