The CPB might lose it's funding.  Sign this petition to save its funding!  Thanks to Jon for the link.  We were talking about how important CPB was in the formation of our generation both on the PFF boards and our Sunday hiking group.  Meera then turned the conversation to the Downing Street memo.  When she turns conversations towards anti-Bush news and heresay, she reminds me of Rita who did the same with anti-Clinton news and heresay back in the day.  It's amazing how much things stay the same when they change, to paraphrase the saying.

 

Speaking of Sunday, I received an early morning email from Trav canceling Shadowfist for yesterday, so I went to AZGD for City of Secrets at Imperial Outpost after "hiking".  Our group mallwalked Arrowhead Mall this time, which was certainly filled with more natural light than PV Mall.  Then we had breakfast at 5 & Diner.  Service was slow, food arrived cold, and all of the servers were rude to all of the patrons on the patio, so I suspect Father's Day was harsh to them.  City of Secrets was mostly fun, but then again, I'm easily pleased.  There was a player in our group who purposely had a character who was at odds with the rest of the party (a lieutenant in the occupying army, who wouldn't let us do anything even remotely outside the law, even if it was the right and good thing to do).  When XP and GP were awarded at the end, the offending player shouted across the room to Ed, a man who I hold in very low esteme as you might remember, and bragged about how he had screwed the party.  When the player left the store, all of the other players (and even the GM!) complained bitterly about him.  They sounded as if they had let him ruin their game for him.  Then again, they weren't too happy about missing out on all of the cool certs in the book.

 

Afterwards, I rushed to mass.  Father Milt was back, and he had a rather short homily compared to Father Joy's homilies.  He seemed to be holding in there after his outpatient surgery.  I guess he'll be seeing my grandparents at mass next Saturday evening in their parish. 

 

Following mass I called my grandfather & godfather, stepfather, and father for Fathers' Day.  My dad went on about the Downing Street memo in his usual anti-authority ways.  There sure are a lot of people who fear losing all of their rights to a Bush regime.  However, I have trust enough in my fellow Americans that we wouldn't just let it happen.  This nation was founded by fighting restrictive government. 

 

Star Trek:  Enterprise was replaced with the first episode of Veronica Mars.  So I suspect they want to hook new viewers over the summer.  It was a pretty good modern teen mystery show.  I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it, but if it continues to run before Buffy and Angel I'll keep watching it.  I've always enjoyed mysteries. 

 

The ending of "Normal Again" was just awesome last night.  How anyone could dislike a series with such solid episodes, where nothing is sacred, where anything could happen, to anyone, and still make it compelling--well I'll never understand.

 

"That Old Gang of Mine" was one of the first episodes of Angel I watched.  Now that I've seen the majority of season 1 & 2 episodes, how things arrived to this point are a whole lot more clear.  The episode definately doesn't have the same feel to it when you actually have the full backstory, not just what little is in the recap.

 

Tuesday and Saturday of this week we had HLA2 meetings after work.  We got a lot done.  We also got a few volunteers for HLA2 while I was at AZGD on Sunday, so hopefully these new contacts will pan out. 

 

Last Monday I worked, so Sunday was my only weekend.  Sunday I had to go to morning mass (Father Joy homilies don't inspire wakefulness, unfortunately) before the LepreCon XXXI Wrap Up meeting, dinner, and LepreCon XXXII Launch meeting.  A lot of good stuff came up at the meeting, both official and unofficial.  Shahn continues to ask me to run Program at LepreCon XXXIII, but I'm really not interested in doing Programming for life.  When pressed, I did agree to do at-con Program Ops if all he could find was someone willing to do pre-con Program.  At-con is dirt easy and doesn't consume so much of your life.  We'll see what comes of that.

 

I see that sometime in the last week anwelei's comment went missing here.  Hopefully, it'll be returned.  Also during the last week I started on the minor site redesign for Crusader Citadel.  Nothing that exciting, just cleaning up dead links, updating changed links, joining a web ring, adding a sidebar, et cetera. 

 

See ya 'round!