Category Archives: Life, Liberty, Pursuit

Veteran’s Day 2011

A Good Friend and I went down to Arlington National Cemetery for the wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I’ve been in the DC area for nine years now and I’ve never been, probably for emotional buffer reasons. The ceremony was as powerful as one can expect. We lucked out with [...]

The Archvillain is dead! Long live the Archvillain!

Today we’re playing the next session in our D&D campaign. We’ve always had a plan of rotating Dungeon Masters throughout, and @instKamra did a great job getting us started with Keep on the Shadowfell. He also talked me into D&D, for which I’m really grateful- I like to take the ole’ imagination out for a [...]

Europe 2010: Update

We ate a traditional Swiss meal tonight and then went bar-hopping/ sight-seeing along Zurich’s Niederdorfstrasse tonight. It’s almost 2am, we’re back at the hotel (we leave tomorrow), I can’t sleep, and I’m polishing off the last of a Doner Kebab. All of which makes it a good time to pontificate. We’re on the juxtaposition of [...]

Europe 2010: Day 7

I’m marking this post for future publishing because I need to catalog today’s events for posterity. Hopefully the timeline works out in the end. Today was our prescheduled day for a day trip within decent range of Stuttgart. M33p suggested Garmisch, and after a little research I agreed- I’ve been hoping to see more of [...]