Archive for May 2007

Hobbies, Part Four

Another Hobby that interests me. This is one I’d get into if I had the skills and time. I guess the skills could be acquired from that ancient technology: books. So really just time. Anyway… Let’s call this hobby “Tinkering.”We’d be best served by me simply showing what I mean. An Underwood #5 Computer?! The [...]

Hobbies, Part 3

In this installment, we examine my own favorite hobby…Roleplaying GamesSince one of my best net-buddies asked, let me explain. A roleplaying game (rpg) can be described as cops and robbers with rules. If you were to watch my group play you would see 5 or 6 guys (RPG players are predominantly male) sitting around a [...]

Hobbies, Part Two

Continuing my posts about hobbies which I find fascinating, but are not mine I give you … Cardstock modeling.Seriously. There are some pretty cool freebies out there. I tried one and it turned out pretty good (it was a Norman Church).Some medieval buildings. Some Wild West models Here’s one for the Pirate in you. World [...]

Hobbies, part one

I am a Roleplaying gamer. Not computer gamer, not miniature wargamer, I’m talking about pencils and paper and books and rolling funny shaped dice. Other people have interesting hobbies too. Here one I stubled across:Cipher and made up scripts. One of my favorite characters from literature, Patrick O’Brian’s Stephen Maturin, kept a jounal in a [...]

In case anyone still checks by…

Doubtful. It’s been ages since I posted. But something (vanity perhaps) has got me thinking about blogging again. So here it goes. I recently posted this to the OXWOMS yahoo group. OXWOMS is an acronym for “Orthodox Without My Spouse” and I know I’ve mentioned it herein before. Fr Stephen (appearantly of Blog fame of [...]