THE SIMPSONS NEWS
I stayed home Monday this week. The lady that takes care of the kids at the daycare went to the hospital Sunday because of a problem with her arm and has been there all this week so far.  Please pray for her.  She’s a very nice lady and the kids really love her.

Since I stayed home for a day, I had to make up the hours. This meant staying four hours late for two days.  I hate doing that because it’s really tiring.  I could have just done two hours extra for four days but that would have meant leaving work at the peak of rush hour. I just couldn’t stomach a two hour drive home.

I’m working as hard as I can at work.  In the past, I would often come in to work and slack off a bit in the mornings.  I’ve found I can no longer do that, the pressure to finish my scenes is too great.  Maybe it’s because my entire work load is on the screen at one time and it really puts the pressure on.  Also, the fact that we have two weeks less time than we used to, doesn’t help.  Not having as many people working on the show, also puts on the pressure.

Worst of all, I found out this week that after the screening of the board-a-matic the stuff we’ve been doing on the computer is all going to be printed out and the show is going to be finished on paper.  I don’t have a desk that I can do paper work on.  Am I going to stay on Lance’s show or am I going to help out someone else? If I stay on his show, does that mean I’m going to have to move again or am going to get laid off for a few weeks?  If I ask about these things, I’ll get the same answer Lance did when HE asked, “I don’t know”.  The people in charge of the show don’t really know how things will change from one day to the next and are as frustrated as we are.  I hope things will work themselves out.

FAMILY
Staying with the kids Monday reminded me of how much fun it is to be with them. Dante is just so active now.  It’s funny because when ever I put on my “daddy voice” and call out his name in order to warn him against doing something naughty, he turns to me wide eyed and says:

On Tuesday, when I went back to work, I really missed them.  We played a lot on Monday and generally had a great time.  (Sigh)

BOARD GAMES
My friend Andy came over to play Dreamblade  this Friday.  We managed to play four games in four hours, which is really good.  That means we are getting the hang of the game.  We still discovered places where we were playing the game wrong though.  We fixed that fairly early on.

I lost three out of the four games.  After the first game (which I won) he began playing the game with a rare figure that  really turned the tide of the game pretty badly.  I was sure it  there was still a way for me to beat it, but it was very difficult.  I was getting better at playing against that figure as the night went on and by the fourth game I managed to only lose by only one point. This was actually pretty good.  I think I should have used a different “Warband” (this is what the group of miniatures you play with is called).  Maybe next time I can take that figure down.

It was a fun night. I really was itching to play a game.

If you’re curious about the game and you don’t really want to spend money but you want to play it;  here are some PDFs you can use to print out and play a  paper versions of the game.

01Dreamblade40mmValor.pdf 1.3MB
02Dreamblade40mmMadness.pdf 1.2MB
03Dreamblade40mmFear.pdf 1.3MB
04Dreamblade40mmPassion.pdf 1.4MB

DBM_Base_Set_Stats.pdf 748KB
3299A_DBMS01_enc_W.pdf Base Encyclopedia 50MB
3298A_DBMS02_enc_W.pdf Baxar’s War Encyclopedia 41MB
DreambladeReferencev4.pdf 140KB
Dreamblade_Rulebook.pdf 3.2MB

Dreamblade_Virtual_Starter.pdf 2.1MB
dreamblade_virtual_booster.pdf 1MB
DBM_Color_Map_Full.pdf 1.9MB
DBM_BW_Map_Full.pdf 176KB
Dreamblade_Map.pdf 384KB

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