Productive day

Finally built the clock I picked up at Makers Fair last year!

Also butchered a pineapple.

Good day so far.

Edge of the World - a D&D 4e campaign

Far more years ago then I care to remember I started playing D&D again with some friends.  It started as a game once a month, then we started a regular Thursday night game and that Thursday night game is now on it's second campaign.

The Edge of the World is a custom setting by our DM.  The story begins with an opening in a magical barrer, the barrer was far out to sea so two worlds formed, the "old world" is a developed world with strong guilds and nations.  To the "old world" the opening in the barrer is like the gold rush of the 1840's.  The new land represents new opportunity, for some a chance to start over, others come seeking riches and power.  But all will find this new land is filled with surprises.

Our band set out from the main settlement, "Newton", on a journey will a local trades man to a norther colony of Freeport*.  The Western coast is desolate with 1000 ft cliffs and little safety for travelers.  Newton has the best port by far and Freeport is rumored to be more of a cavern on the coast then a place to live.  The band still has a few days journey to each it's destination and it has been an eventful trip so far.

More to come!

*It's not Freeport, as Paul points out it's "FreeWater".  Freeport is a place in EverQuest which my EQ character spent a little time in so it's stuck in my brain as Freeport.

PS Rich mentioned some spelling errors.  Yes, I don't proof read well so there will be some mistakes.  These serve two uses, first, it sets the right expectation for the quality of the information, and two it allows me to write stuff and not worry about the judgement.

When interviewing for a job...

Remember you are are selling your self.  When the interview asks a question, think about the important information you need to get across.  It is an oppurtunity to expand on an area of knowledge in your background.  Saying you don't know something is always an option, never hurts to add how you might get the information too.  Just don't spend time dancing around a topic, avoid answering in general terms, saying "you know" is never good.  How is the interviewer suppose to know?  In most cases you just met, there is no shared history, no common referance, the whole point of the exercise is the interview!

Why "Court of the Universe" and why this blog?

I chose to call my blog "Court of the Universe" after one of the locations of the 1915 PanAmerican worlds fair.  I always liked the names people gave things in the past, they instilled a sense of grandeur simply by what they called it.  In reality it was a temporary structure build of chicken wire and stucco but for the year it was around it raised the hopes and dreams of those who came to pay it homage.  Built in a time when America was a raising force in the world, tucked on the wrong side to two oceans and the land of hopes and opportunities.  It's the perfect place for a "Court of the Universe" to exist.  Now we call things "FedEX field" or "AT&T Park", reminders of power of the name in a difference sense.

As to why this blog, I'll starting by saying I SUCK at writing, some of the most creatively wrong things I have personally read come from my IM sessions.  Amazing what a misspelled word in the right place can do.  Second, I've got a bunch of hobbies and I find information then forget it.  By having a place to track what I've done I'm hoping I can use it as a personal reminder.  Who knows, maybe I can add to the value of the world at the same time.  I hope to have technology posts, information about my car (the interesting one), my D&D activity, my Amiga computers and what ever else I want to record.

Enjoy!