Non-Gaming Stories

Baby Fight Club Doctor comes in with med student to examine our newborn... Doc (to student), "You will see that there is some bruising around the top of his head." Me (silently to myself), "Baby Fight Club will do that to you..." Post-Partum Pizza Thoughts Me last night - looking to warm up some leftover pizza at the hospital... "It would be nice if they had microwaves in the room...." Also me last night - "They can't do that because they are afraid some postpartum mothers might try to microwave their babies..." Also Also me last night - "𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘴 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵! How did I come up with 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙏? 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙒𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙚?" Naming Guidelines So the hospital gave us a sheet of "rules" to use while naming The Child. 1. Numbers are fine as long as they are spelled out...i.e., we could name the baby 'Twelve' but not '12' and not Tr1stan. 2. No symbols or emojis so ...

Given how stressed out over the myriad problems the world is facing right now, I thought that I would share a little reminder that no matter how bad you have it, no matter how hopeless you think your situation is, that even though you think you have exhausted all hope and just can't go on, that you should be thankful for what you have and where you are because Things Could ALWAYS Be Worse.

I went through a phase a couple years ago where I thought that these would make hilarious window decals. I still think that I'm right.

There I was, navigating the nearly abandoned thoroughfares of an all but forgotten mercantile center.  This derelict temple dedicated to American Consumerism had been reduced to a sparse handful of retailers struggling to keep the crumbling edifice alive.  My footfalls echoed off of hard tiles that had been polished to a near mirror sheen by the endless laps of elderly walkers shuffling along like zombies and futile attempts to stave off their own deaths. Window frames filled with dusty glass provided hazy views into the vacant emporiums as I strode by.  A lone bird that had somehow been trapped inside fluttered past - the only other living thing I had seen since entering the ruin. I rounded a corner in the plaza and saw it off in the distance - bolted to the wall, an atavistic feature even in this relic of a shopping center - a pay phone. This anachronistic bygone had been forced into obscurity by its evolutionary descendants and nearly legislated out o...

I picked up a set of Story Dice at Target for just a buck last Friday night. For those of you who don't know, Story Dice are a set of dice with pictures on them that are used to get a story or conversation started. You roll the dice and then make up a story (a sentence or two is fine) based on the images that appear. This particular set consists of four six-sided dice (4d6) with pictures of various camping-related things, animals, and activities - a tent, a pop-up trailer, trees, a bear, S'mores and so on. Some businesses use them as a tool to teach improved collaboration or as a "warm up" for creative meetings. Me? I encourage nonsensical combinations. For example, a roll of... resulted in... "On a cloudy camping trip, I wrestled a squirrel for S'mores." became, "When I was camping, I took my canoe out to look at the clouds when a pine cone hit me in the head." Then there was...