Braided Bracelet made from wire. With loop and hook closure.

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Show Number 2 of 5 from the archives.



HERE.

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Mmmmmm.......



Click here for recipe.

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I have a bad cold and when I close my eyes I see only evil clowns.



The slow Thing week continues with evil clowns, as if any other kind exists.

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Would you believe the second in a series?

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There's plenty more cool paper creature designs at Readymech. And I'm sure you can put them together better than me.

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Kind of a slow week this week, Today's Thing continues the endless stream of TOTTD hollow promotions, I signed up for facebook. I created an entry for myself. Then created a group for this website and put it in the sidebar.

I like facebook way better than myspace---better layout, easier to find people, impossible to remember the URL. However, there is a bit of a stalker-y vibe to the whole site. I know the just-outta-college girls and the creepier just-outta-college boys at work sit around eating up company time cross-referencing all their comments and semi-connections to each other and every other just-outta-college kid on the planet. It's a rabbit hole of endless, pointless info.

The amount of cross-referencing of groups, ID's, locations, work and everything else is tasty tempting catnip to even the laziest of looky-loos. It's almost im-pos-i-ble not to click down the chain.

Anyway, I still think cell phones can be blamed for all this self-absorbed constant blather. Not a new thought, but cell phones + Twitter will end civilization.

Anyway, enjoy the TTOTD facebook page.

I hope inspiration hits, so there's real content from me this week.

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I found a good sketch program I can use my Wacom tablet with: Tablet Draw. Just for fun, I did a similar sketch as the real pencil sketch I did Friday. I like how this program feels, but it appears to only sketch, no airbrush or chalk brushes, but I still like it.

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A page full of doodles. Remembering how much I love colored pencils.

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This week's show is all new music except for Old 97's. That's All.


Get the CD Jewel Inset HERE.

Get the deluxe AAC version HERE.

Get the crappy MP3 version HERE.

Subscribe in itunes and visit the TTOTD Radio Page.



Long Week. Have a good weekend.

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HERE.

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The first in a series of collages.



More on This Thing

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In June, I contacted Bully Pulpit Games about posting an audio recording of the rules to The Shab-Al-Hiri Roach. They were very nice about it. At Gencon, Roach creator Jason Morningstar premiered an add-on to the Roach called The Roach Returns. The expansions details two new settings for Roach-y mayhem to take place.

I had an idea for a new setting and that's today's Thing. Today's Thing actually took a few days.

The Roach always struck me as an evil, evil soap, so why not expand on that idea. It's Dallas meets American Psycho. The Cashingtons are not just merely rich, but unholy rich. And like most large rich families, the siblings are at each other's throats. You play a spoiled sibling out to harm your other siblings. This is BEFORE The Roach arrives. Greed is great, but bedlam is better.

The four-page PDF features character sheets, events, business interests and obsessions, descriptions, dice charts and play rules, plus a new rules page add-on to encourage deep, dark secrets to come to the surface. Most of the changes in setting can be inferred from the PDF and your imagination can fill in the gaps. I hope it's playable. I haven't play-tested it just yet. I just finished the new setting today. If you want to know more about this weird game, The Shab-Al-Hiri Roach follow the links below down the rabbit hole. The Roach, um, commands you.

Also, if you have any suggestions for improvement, leave a comment or email me.

Grab the Rules in handy audio form MP3 version HERE or AAC version HERE. The rules are slightly abridged and poorly read by me. Also, the card text was left out, so buy the game. Or come over to my house and play. This is a taste.

Download the new setting, The Cashington Roach HERE.
It's a small four-page PDF, handy for printing and usable with existing Roach rules.

Enjoy.

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A few people have asked for the meatloaf cake recipe, and that has prompted me to finish an overhaul project that I've been working on. This is yet another blog of mine, one that I used to keep up regularly, just on food, recipes, and cooking. I've revamped the format to make searching for recipes easier, and deleted a bunch of unnessessary posts. Click here to go check it out.

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Make your own here.

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After spending a weekend figuring out Fantasy Football, I've decided to start a faux advocacy group, Games Not Gaming. GNG is founded on the idea that if you have to bet on a game to play it, the game itself is boring. It's not an anti-gambling group, it's an anti-lame game group. There's no real game in Fantasy Football. It's just gambling dressed up and nerdified. Ever play Blackjack NOT for money. Bo-Ring. However, people play Monopoly, a game about getting money for free, with no bets everyday. The only betting game I can think of that's interesting is poker. And really, it's just mildly interesting. Playing for no money renders poker pointless. Slots ISN'T a game. Real games of skill and strategy are only played for money by hustlers and fools. Case in point, pool. And you can enjoy pool without money changing hands.

So remember, if you have to pay to play, the play is lame. Word.

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My Thing today is creating something new through destruction. Almost 8 years ago, at Holiday Gift Giving time, I got my kids a funky bunk-bed. The metal kind with a folding couch to double sized futon bottom, and twin mattress size top. This saved space replacing their two twin beds, and gave them a cool couch to sit on. I bought the bed with an 'overtime bonus' which meant to me that my personal blood, sweat, and tears went into buying them this gift. The bottom stopped folding into a couch a few years back, and they haven't even shared a room for almost two years now. In switching who's in what room, the huge project that we've been undertaking for the last few weeks, and will continue for a few more, it was decided (by them) that the broken old bed was no longer needed. So to create their new room spaces, and honor their growing-up-too-quickly desires, I took apart a piece of their childhood, and carried it to the trash this weekend. And as I write this now, barely able to see through my tears, I have to remember, 'out with the old, in with the new.'

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Today's thing is a creative Commons License for the web site.

This is for the original work on the site. If you must steal, please attribute.

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