THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Started back at work this week. It feels like I haven’t left. I’ve been doing this for so many years that every day just feels the same here.

I’m grateful to be back and I’m glad that we’re just doing revisions right now. It helps ease me back into work mode. My first day back was very slow and that helped a lot also because I was tired from the day before.

We found out that the air date of the show we’re working on has been moved up. Our show will be the Season Premier this season. Lance (the director) thinks this is a good sign that they really like this show and the writers think it’s a strong one. Lets hope so. I hope that this doesn’t mean that the schedule they give us to finish it will be shorter than usual. If it is, it would be very typical of them to do this to us.

I asked the Assistant Director of the Universal Studios Simpsons ride how the ride was going. He said that they still haven’t finished it yet. That’s crazy! The way things seem to be going on that project, it seems that it’s going to be done a day or two before the ride opens. I’m glad I’m not on it anymore. I couldn’t deal with that kind of pressure anymore. Even though I’ve been off work for four weeks, I still haven’t really recovered from working on it. If I didn’t have bills to pay, I sure would have liked a another week or four.

On Wednesday something crazy happened that ruined my day. William Shatner came to the studio! Yeah, you read right, WILLIAM SHATNER, Captain Kirk himself came to the studio. How cool is that? That so rocks. Don’t ask me why he was there, I don’t know. All I know is, that he was there.

So why did this ruin my day? I DIDN’T GET TO SEE HIM. *SOB* What a bummer. I friend of mine told me that he got in an elevator with him to our floor. So we knew he was in the building but when I went around to look for him, I could find him. WEAK!

BOARD GAMES

Sunday Alesha and I went over to my brother’s place to play a board game. Deborah (my brother’s wife) placed out some finger foods to munch on so we could just get to the gaming part right away. The finger food would be our dinner. Nothing ruins a night of board gaming like a sit down dinner. It takes up too much time. They chose to play Dune: The Board Game.

Deborah chose to play as the Fremen, Alesha chose to play as the Bene Gesserit, my brother Juan chose to play as House Harkonnen, and I played as House Atreides.

The first round went relatively slow since everyone was getting used to the rules. Things began to get interesting by turn two though. After the discovery of a Spice blow in the western part of the planet, the Atreides sent an Ornithopter full of men to retrieve it. Taking advantage of the situation, the Harkonnen animals, decided to attack the Atreides stronghold. At the same time, the Atreides Spice Harvester was attacked by a large band of Fremen who also wanted the Spice. The Atreides managed to fight off the Harkonnen attack at their stronghold but suffered such casualties that it wiped them out from the stronghold. A Harkonnen plot of poisoning Paul Atreides was foiled by the fact that Paul had the power of limited prescience and he saw it coming. The Atreides did worse at the Spice blow location where the Fremen wiped them out completely off the map. Meanwhile the Bene Gesserit were wandering around Dune, aimlessly wishing they could find some Spice.

Later, after another Spice blow in the north west of the planet. The Atreides managed to get back control of their stronghold without a fight. The Harkonnen set down an Ornithopter of men at the new Spice blow location. They also shipped men down to a stronghold on the east side of the planet. The Fremen managed to continue harvesting their Spice but saw what the Harkonnen where doing in the eastern stronghold and sent men into it to attack them. They also took over a small stronghold on the west side of the planet near their Spice blow. After a brutal battle between the Harkonnen and the Fremen, the two factions managed to wipe each other out leaving no one in control of the eastern most stronghold. Meanwhile the Bene Gesserit continued wandering around Dune aimlessly wishing they could find some Spice.

Then it happened…Shai-Hulud! A Worm appeared and destroyed the Harkonnen Spice Harvester and the men who ran it. The Fremen took advantage of the appearance of a the giant Worm to ride it to the empty stronghold on the east side of the planet they had just recently fought the Harkonnen over. The appearance of a Worm caused a Nexus to occur. The Bene Gesserit had been secretly hoping that the Atreides would have taken control of the planet by now, as they had predicted, which would have cause them to secretly get control of Dune, but seeing that this was not even close to happening, they chose to ally themselves with the Fremen during this Nexus. Realizing that the Fremen and the Bene Gesserit controlled three strongholds on the planet which would give them complete control of Dune, the Atreides and the Harkonnen where forced to put their differences aside and become allies in order to combat this new threat.

There was a Spice blow near the North Pole and the Bene Gesserit rejoiced at finally finding some Spice of their very own. Meanwhile the Atreides helped pay for the transport of Harkonnen troops to the eastern most stronghold in order to break the Fremen/Bene Gesserit dominance. The Fremen counter attacked by sending troops into Harkonnen Head Quarters while the Bene Gesserit attacked Atreides Head Quarters. The Atreides/Harkonnen alliance was left with no choice but to win, against all odds, every single battle they fought in order to stop Fremen/Bene Gesserit dominance. The first battle to resolve was over Harkonnen Head Quarters. After the dust settled, the Fremen stood victorious in capturing the stronghold. The Atreides and Harkonnen had no choice but to admit defeat and were sent into exile crying like little babies. DOH!

Why do I keep losing every game I play against my wife?

I want a rematch.

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