Blog Title of Some Sort

So I've gone two weeks without blogging. Ah, dear. And work hasn't even gotten that busy yet. We're still busy, but I'm expecting that October will bring more jumps in workload. Come and go quickly, Mr. Election Day!

Anyway, here are some projects that I'm working on, since I know that you really want to know. You do, don't you?

CCGTracker - An ASP site so my friends and I can track the games we play for our card games. It will also have the ability to randomly create games (which is useful, considering the number of decks that some of us have). We'll be able to see what decks we've played recently and what decks we haven't played in a while, and will see how our decks are doing, and how our decks are doing against certain other types of decks. It could be interesting, anyway. We'll see.

Reclamation Printout Page - Another ASP page. When it's finished, in theory, for playtesting, we'll be able to create a deck list and print out exactly the cards we need (with card design and iamge included). I've gotten some good work on this done, but there is more to do. I have been image searching lately for good images to use for the cards.

Cooproductions - All I really need to do is finish updating my top ten lists. There are several other things I'd like to do with it, but if I wait until everything to be done, it'll be forever. It's already been long enough. I'll get the lists done and then the site will continue to be a work in progress.

The Lords of Sargoff - While I am not currently working on this, I know there are at least a few people currently reading it. If you'd like to read it, please email me (or comment here) and I'll send you the file. (It's a 250 page fantasy novel, for those who may not know.) I am very much looking forward to hearing the response from the readings. I have written the rough draft for the first chapter in book two, and I think it's a pretty neat opening chapter.

In other news, I am now reading The Lost Colony, which is book five of the Artemis Fowl series. There are currently six books in the series. I have definitely enjoyed the series. I am not yet sure what I will be reading next, but I'm sure it will stay in the fantasy realm. Perhaps Eragon or The Chronicles of Narnia. I do plan on soon tackling The Wheel of Time, but that is a much bigger undertaking, and I may read a few of the small, faster series first.

I Am A Fan Of Food

Last Saturday, my wife and I had date night. We each made part of the meal, with the other not knowing what the other made. I was assigned the part of making the main dish and the appetizer, while my wife made dessert. For the appetizer, I made Kielbasa Appetizers, which were rather good, I'd say. I even included the beer, though at first I wasn't going to. The main course was Teriyaki Marinated Chicken, which I marinated in the teriyaki sauce for 48 hours. It was also rather good. My wife made chocolate candies which were delicious.

One of the unfortunate consequences of increased busyness at work is that I will be blogging less during the next couple months. Sad, isn't it? I know. But, alas. We are already feeling the increase in workload due to the election. We have been placed on a rotation for being on-call at night, and will be in the office on Saturday for the third weekend in the last month. Not for doing the work itself, but for preparing for the election cycle. It's very exciting. But... alas. One of the other unfortunate consequences of the increased workload and later hours means I get less time to read and write, and work on other things that I am excited to work on (Reclamation, and the decks for the card games I play).

I am happy that I have people reading Lords of Sargoff. While there is still more work to do on that book, I find myself often thinking about starting writing on the second book. I already have the opening scene in my head, and I've already taken notes on many of the key plot points throughout the book. At some point, I'll probably start working on it, but I have other things on my to-do list first.

LotD: Fences. I'd like the roller coaster fence, though it seems rather nonfunctional. :)