So the D&D 3.5 game went well. Only one player died and it could have been many more than that as they were truly overmathed.

Toady I went out with a friend for shopping and lunch. Had good pizza at a local place with an all you can eat buffet. Afterwards I bought some books. (Changeless by Gail Carriger and Crusade & Maelstrom by Taylor Anderson.)

At frys’ I had an impulse buy of GalaxyQuest on Blu-ray and boy was this the right purchase.

I already owned GQ on DVD and I generally do not replace my DVD’s with Blu-ray’s unless there is additional content. The original GQ disc had little in the way of Bonus material, but the Blu-ray has much more.

The sweetie-wife and I have already watched two featurettes and laughed heartily.

Been spending today getting ready to run my 3.5 D&D game. (My collection of friends and I do not play 4 ed)

The bad guys are assembled and it is going to be a tough fight.

Who knows? The players might lose….

For some reason my fingers are in arthritis mode and have been hurting all afternoon. I had a lot of running around to do today and so I sadly missed my 1000 word minimum for writing.

Things have gone rather well today. 2000 more words written for Cawdor, voted without incident, funny stuff on Tv to watch and the news that there is serious speculation that there may be life on Titan. Now this is not evidence of life on Titan it is anomalous finding that life could explain, but more likely there is a strictly non-biologic process at work.

However for there to be even a serious suggestion of life on freakin’ Titan, that is wicked cool.

The book is steaming along nicely. I have completed about 290 pages of manuscript and I am charging towards the inevitable conclusion. The path has been far from inevitable. I have deviated wildly in the middle away from my outline. However that is precisely why I have an outline,

Instead of becoming lost and confused as to where my story was heading. I grew confident enough to walk away from the path because I knew what my goal was going to be. It has made the story stronger and I hope more enjoyable.

I still feel it’s a story few will like, but I am drawn deeply to it.

So the other night I was back to using my nasal pillows, trying to find the right fit so that my therapy would work to best effect.
Anyway, here the sequence of events from my point of view.
My sweetie-wife wakes me up in the night and tells me that my mask is loose and blowing air. I reach up, check and find that the nasal pillows are in place and not leaking. I groggily tell her everything is fine and go back to sleep.
Here’s the sequence of events from her point of view:
My mask is loose and blowing sir. She wakes me and tells me this. I adjust and re-fit my mask, then I check it again and tell her that it’s fine.

Seems I am completely capable of resetting my mask and not being awake enough to remember it.

On a good news front, it does look like version one of Cawdor will be finished this month.

What’s really funny is that director James Cameron is being consulted because of his deep water experience.

h/t to the wonderful people at xkcd

A new air speed record has been matched.

Yesterday, the USAF launched an experimental aircraft, the X-51A, and it achieved Mach 6 for more than 3 minutes. It used scram-jet technologies, a stepping stone towards space-planes.

Now there is still a long way to go. Mach 6 is fast, but three minuets is not very long and to reach orbital speeds you need something on the order of Mach 16 or 17. Still is is very cool that the USAF is still in the record busting business.