My website went a little viral today.  Normally I get less then a hundred hits per day, but today I got over 400.  It is all because of the picture of this guy on a scooter, that I called American Patriot after the logo name on his scooter.  I’m assuming that the serendipity of the post’s picture title and this week’s Veterans Day had something to do with it.  This second post is sort of an experiment to prove or disprove this hypothesis.

You know he is sort of an American Patriot.  He is unsung.  He is standing tall.  He is braving the cold.  He is doing his part to reduce the amount of petro dollars we send to foreign countries.  I’m sure he is an American Patriot.

Actually I prefer, but in ‘artford, ‘ereford and ‘ampshire, ‘urricanes ‘ardly ever ‘appen, or something like that.  The flight was bumpy, but the weather here tonight is nice.  The hurricane hits tomorrow.  Coming in on final I got a great view of the country side and it looks like the leaves are just starting to change.  Also it appears that outside of the cities, towns and villages there are not many dwellings, not the urban sprawl that you see in Missouri.  Steve and Barbara sent me the picture.  Dinner with the boys tonight and then to bed, tomorrow will be a long day.

If I don’t save her who will check my blog?

Physics is fun!  Physics is cool!  Get your geek on!

Also check out Boba Fett’s Flashdance send up:

Three leaves or four leaves?  Not as momentous a decision as picking our next president, but Ababsurdo.com  has already covered that one.  So which do you like better?

I’m trying to decide on a quilting pattern for this little quilt.  It looks like the leaves will be appliqued, but actually I’m going to quilt the outline of the fern leaves.  The photos look unfocused because the leaves are on top of the Golden Threads Quilting Paper.  You can draw your design on the paper, pin it to the quilt, sew along the lines, then tear away the paper.

P.S.  Mark thought I looked pretty funny, standing on the dining room chair, looking down to take these pictures.  Good thing I had the camera!

Dr. Martin Campion, well-known wargamer and game designer, announces that a single sheet of paper he discovered in his filing cabinet between two conventional wargame magazines has just sold for $18,000 USD. Read the whole story to find out what this single paper was all about.

This typed & mimeographed item was from April 1970, entitled “Domesday Book #2”. This brief publication (not to be confused with the original census of Britain, AD 1086) was the newsletter for the IFW / LGTSA* wargame club of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. It is of great historical import since it contained early drafts of the club’s first ‘house rules’ for medieval wargames (1:20 scale), which were compiled as “Chainmail” (published first by Guidon Games and later by Tactical Studies & Rules), which in 1973 produced a spinoff, the Dungeons & Dragons game. (And the rest, as they say, is history.)

(* International Federation of Wargamers / Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association)