Pretty Slow Day!

Early start for me this morning as I had to head into campus (a 30 mile drive) to show off my web graphics portfolio for my course. The Web Graphics class has been OK, but it has been using Adobe ImageReady when it really should have been using Fireworks. I guess we can't have everything and they are pretty similar. Some of the stuff I had to produce was a little embarrassingly simple but I persevered and now I am done.

Home about noon to a naughty dog and a Lindsay that had gone over on her ankle. Went to Ruby Tuesdays for lunch and had a pretty decent burger and then drove around for 3 hours looking for a gazebo for the back garden. I know I should really just hunt myself one down and kill it but the stores have so much more choice than the ones you can find in the wild.

Fell asleep with Lindsay and the dog when we got back, then felt rubbish when we woke up. Uploaded a couple of audio files from the huge stockpile of Warlords of the Accordlands that I have still to release. I have reduced the quality to reduce the filesize but I defy anyone to actually notice any difference. Hopefully this will go a long way to stopping the spikes in the bandwidth that we have been seeing. Perhaps if I only release a couple of file at a time and spread them out each day we can more evenly distribute the downloads.

Added the old Donations Block back on the site and was pleased to see 3 donations already. My users are lovely people. That donations block was pretty decent last time we used it and I really should have just stuck with it but I was trying to clean things up a little. I never expected that the donations would basically drop off to nothing, but I guess out of sight out of mind. I am going to monitor things and see what happens.

On the game front we are not doing too well. One of the players has pulled out of Mothers Day (11th) so thats another 2 weeks without Rolemaster. We are going to be picking up Beyond the Mountains of Madness again this Thursday but I do not think they are going to see the end of it the way the sanity is ebbing away. Might have to do a little fudging and even then I doubt they will survive far. At least it will free up the Thursday slot to give 4e a shot when it comes out. As a side note, does anyone know where I could get a copy that can guarantee delivery for the date of release?

Just sat typing this while Lindsay is sewing a skirt. She is so bloody good at the sewing lark now. I am sure you all need to check out her Etsy Store and buy lots of her things. Thinking that I have a little bit of Wiki to write but I am going t do it tomorrow and I have to get my Superheroes And History video burned to DVD for Monday along with all the working files (so that's going to be fun). Tomorrow is a good day for all that I think. Might just head off and forage a snack from somewhere, make a nice cup of tea and retire early.