an Barra, we will return to Killarney.Home→Gates & Glamours→Made my Saving Roll. I’m Not Dead Yet!
 However, my life has undergone some huge upheavals. We spend six weeks in a remodel of my late mother-in-law’s house so it could be sold to decide we’d rather live here and sell the house in Waco. So we spent a month packing up and moving from Waco. The house there has just come on the market and we are back in Garland slowly unpacking and trying to fit two houses worth of stuff in one house. Needless to say, a lot of stuff has already been sold (generally for peanuts) or donated to charity groups for their “garage sales”. As you might expect, I haven’t got much else done, but life is slowly returning to normal. Here is a progress report on my various gaming projects and activities.
Wilderlands Campaign: I’m happy to say that the Wilderlands campaign I ran in Waco for about four years is still going strong. It is now two campaigns, however, as none of the players in the campaign willing to GM could handle 8 players. There are now two smaller groups, one using Microlite74 and the other using Microlite81, playing in the same world. They are even taking steps to keep the time line coordinated so events in one group can affect the other. Everyone seems to be having a good time and I even got to play in one session while I was in Waco. The first time I’ve ever played in one of my own settings. It was fun — but felt very weird at the same time.
DFW Campaign: While it will still be a couple of months before I have time for a regular campaign, one is in the works. Due to physical space limitations, it will be limited to 4 players — and it is already full. One of the regular readers of this blog got in touch with me in early June wanting to know if i had time to run any pickup old school games while I was in the Dallas area. I didn’t, but I got to talking with him and his friends. Once my wife and I decided to move up here, they started lobbying for me to run a campaign up here. It looks like I’ll be writing a special set of variant Microlite81 rules for it with only three classes (Fighter, Sorcerer [a fighter/mu combo], and Wizard) with everything else including race handled by backgrounds and with some of the stuff from Microlite74 Swords and Sorcery (like the White/Grey/Black magic system). I hope to start playing sometime in October (or late September if we’re lucky).
Microlite81, Microlite78, and Other Design Projects: I have not made much progress on these. As you might expect I have not had a lot of computer time the last few months and most of what time I did have on the computer had to be devoted to doing work for my clients. I’m gradually getting more time and hope to be able to resume actually typing up rules soon. The goal for Microlite78 was not reached — not surprising when I disappeared from the Net for over three months. However, a lot of the work for a draft is done, so I will likely go ahead and do it anyway, especially given that a lot of people really want to see it.
5e: I’ve been asked (a lot) about my opinion of the upcoming 5e. Until I actually see the 5e PH, MM, and DMG, I can’t really say much. However, from what I’ve seen there are so many changes from TSR D&D (a “sleep” spell that only lasts a couple of minutes, for example) that I would have to heavily rewrite my campaign settings to make them work with 5e. I see no reason to do so since the rules they were designed for still work just fine. Unlike 3.x and 4e, however, 5e looks like a system I could enjoy playing given an old school style GM and group of players, so while I will probably not ever GM a campaign using the 5e rules, I could seeing myself as a player in an appropriate 5e campaign.
Now that you're up in DFW, you ought to take a look at hitting North Texas RPG Con next June. The games list is pretty much exclusive OSR/Retro, as are the guests.
I'm hoping to make it to Nortn Texas RPG Con for at least a day next year, but whether or not I make it will depend on how Donna is doing the day I want to go. At least I'll be close enough for a day trip.A unique formulation which firms & tightens the skin along with sunscreen benefit. Vitamin rich oils of wheat germ, and olive oil revitalizes the skin by delivering in depth cellular nourishment. Exotic plant extract helps in the formation of free radicals, lipid peroxidation, development of advanced glycation end-products. Crowberry improves skin firmness and elasticity of the skin and protects the skin extracellular matrix..
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from FaithWorld:
Irish Catholic Church concealed child abuse even after new prevention rules in 1990s
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from FaithWorld:
FInancial crisis boosts European suicide rates, especially in Greece, Ireland
(Suicide hotline sign at telephone booth near Beachy Head, the chalk cliffs near Eastbourne, a leading UK suicide spot, 29 January 2009/Les Chatfield)
from FaithWorld:
Ireland eyes Catholic religious orders’ properties to meet abuse damages costs
(Irish clerical sexual abuse victims with a copy of a government report into child abuse, in Dublin May 20, 2009/Cathal McNaughton)
from The Great Debate:
Ireland could use a little audacity of hope.
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from Felix Salmon:
Ireland’s lessons for Spain.I like how the The Guardian has 'Special Report: Globalisation' heading its article on the beatings and torture meted out by the Italian police (actually, the Carabiniere, a military, and not a police, corps) in Genoa, rightly tying the issue of globalism to the violence of the government. The Italians have to realize that they can't elect a quasi-fascist government and expect that it won't let its quasi-fascist military/police force loose to do its worst. The sociopaths that run these kind of organizations are just itching to have the opportunity to show off their muscle. Why does Italy, a democratic country, have an army unit as its main police force?
This is not related to RabbitMQ or it's connection, but to find some internal object to text serializer.
It tries to use the Interfaces abstract factory to look up an utility to handle the input, based on the Zope Component Architecture (ZCA). But, and here I am out, collective.zamqp does not use the standard way to configure the components. Instead it uses a third party library called grok to register them. No idea what went wrong here.
we've finally figured out that the reason of this exception is grok.Until the end of his time at Sunderland he did alright to be honest. Didn’t always agree with his actions but he led us to 13th I think in the first season? Created a decent team then couldn’t get out of a slump. Selling Bent didn’t help matters at the time. 

The Sheff We’d stuff.. in any job he’d of been given time off (or at least a good employee) and some may agree/disagree but along with the cancer and shorter life expectancy I can understand his actions. I realise Sheff have supported him, and should be commended, but it’s his boyhood club coming calling. He won’t get another chance. He has to take it to be honest. I think anyone would in the position. 

Loyalty rarely exists, it doesn’t really exist in the real world of employment outside of football either.

Also Newcastle. Who else are they realistically going to get? I think he’ll do an alright job. Stabilise then maybe and then move on/be moved on.We headed up North these past couple days and our first stop was Shreveport Louisiana to spend some time with Mr. Ray (or as he would correct me "Ray"). It was great to see the work he is doing in developing leaders through service learning. We had the chance to see the community garden where high school students have given their time to help revitalize a neighborhood. Here are just a couple images from our time with him. Blessings. Jason
Orang-utans and Fig Trees
Apr 20, 12 of plants and fig trees are one of their favourite. As always the team monitors the orang-utan briefly to make sure that everything is okay and that their is nothing out of the ordinary.
And by the looks of it this mother and child where fine as they continued to eat and ignore our Warden’s!This pedestal base probably had a planter at one point, but it is missing. Bottom is numbered and stamped USA, but no maker is listed. Great art deco flower pattern. Top with a bird bath basin, use as an umbrella stand, top with a complimentary planter. Stands 17-3/4" tall, top diameter 7-3/4", bottom diameter 7-1/4".. Ht is usually an ignorant hanger-on who caught a free ride on the merry-go-round which the theatre