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Look What I Have

March 7th, 2012 by skippy

A shiny new website.

What’s been going on.

February 23rd, 2012 by skippy
So things have been busy over here, and I have really started to let things go on the updating the blog front.  I’ve spent a few days staring at the blank “Add New Post” window.  Feeling uninspired, I will just update everyone on what’s been going on for the past month or so.

I graduated from college, which is a relief because trying to run a business, start a second business and be the primary caregiver to a pair of rambunctious twins was already a great big pile of work.

During my last quarter I did some math and realized that as long as I just barely passed the course I would still graduate with a decent GPA.  I promptly began treating the assignments as my own personal playtime.  Strangely, my grades went up.

I have been receiving a terrifying set of lessons about US Import law.  I always thought it was “products ship over, paperwork gets filled out, small amount of money is paid to the government, and you get your stuff.”  Which is technically true.  In the sense that if you get accused of murder it goes “Show up at court, say stuff to the judge, avoid going to jail.”  While technically correct, it is just a smidge more complicated than that.   And if you fail to enlist the aid of a trained professional there is an excellent chance that horrible things will happen to you.

My game is on track to be released late next month, although the shipping process is dragging out a bit longer than it should have.  So far I am committed to GAMA Trade, Origins, Give to Game, and Dallas Comic Con.  We’re planning to try for Gen Con, and pretty much any medium-sized cons in Texas that we can find.  If you know of any, please let me know.

Last year I worked on a board game that got published called Please Don’t Wake Dagon.  The publishers are finally beginning to move again on that, and more news should be available soon.

I went to two conventions recently.  I got invited to ConJour in Houston as a guest.  This was a very very tiny con, and I think that there were barely more guests than staff.  I wound up on several panels with Glen Welch, of the “2000 Things That Mr Welch Can No Longer Do in an RPG”.  I was surprised by the invitation because, well, I wrote a viral joke on the Internet something around eleven years ago, which I’m not exactly sure is a current event any more.  This was one panel that was supposed to be the two of us disusing the origins of our lists.  Nobody showed up.

While in Houston I met the Tully’s, who had the scariest RPG ever.  It wasn’t a horror RPG, it’s just that nearly every thing about it was virtually identical to a homebrew table top game I ran last year.  It was like they were watching me, taking notes and published it.  The game is called Mana Punk and I will be trading a copy of Redshirts for it once my shipment comes in.

Last weekend I went to ConDFW, to schmooze.  I found a store that may be carrying my game soon, and a few podcasts that want to interview me for a chance to plug my game.  The fun moment was when they took my email address down and they go, “skippyslist .com?  You’re not that Skippy are you?”

My children have discovered artistic expression.  Right now they are working primarily in the fecal medium.  Their masterpieces are called “Poop mural on texture painted wall”, “Poop smeared into carpet”, and the popular “Poop used as hair care product for my little brother.”  Do you know how long it takes to get two childrens worth of poop off of a texture painted wall with a combination of spray cleaner and toothbrush?  Because I do.

We have replaced cable television with my old desktop PC.  Nearly every show I want to watch is on the Internet anyways.  The others are on DVD or available to watch at my friends houses.  I’m finding this to not only be cheaper, but frankly I prefer my big living room television to be a giant computer monitor.   Fun bonus: Infinite free porn in the living room, which is handy as it is the only place the wife and I can fit the Twister mat.

I actually recently wrote something that even I thought might be a little too far.  People that regularly read the sort of things I find funny might want to think about that for a bit.

 

Bowie’s Package

February 22nd, 2012 by todd merriman

The Birth Control Debate Summed Up

February 14th, 2012 by skippy

When they came for the Catholic Church over contraception rights issues I didn’t speak up, because they were completely wrong and besides nobody was actually coming for them in the “persecution, torture, and then murdered in a death camp” sense.

Two if by sea

February 13th, 2012 by skippy

This Friday 1.5 tons of boardgame will be leaving India, and sailing it’s way to my new warehouse facility.  And by that I mean my garage.

The site for WeaselPants Productions will be live soon, and in about a month sales will begin.

School is done.  Most of the work for the game is out of the way.  I suppose I really should start writing more now that I finally can.

Coming Soon

January 2nd, 2012 by skippy

Guess what’s going to the printer soon?
Here’s a hint.
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Give an Hour

December 14th, 2011 by skippy

In light of my last post this seems like a good time to plug Give an Hour.

Give an Hour is a nonprofit organization that provides free mental health care to US Military personnel.  They do good work to help out the people that risked everything for the rest of us.  A lot more vets could use their services than they can possibly provide for so if you can, ambulance consider donating.  If you are a mental health professional consider donating your time.  And if you know of anyone that could use their services, please try to gently steer them in this direction.

 

 

 

SGT Biddle

December 13th, 2011 by skippy

SGT Biddle was not my friend.  He had in fact stated that expressly on more than one occasion.  He felt we were “buddies” which is to say people the Army forced together whether they liked each other or not, but who were entitled to the same type of loyalty and decency as a friend.
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WeaselPants Productions

December 11th, 2011 by skippy

“Why Skippy?” Some may have asked lately. “Why haven’t you been updating your site very much lately?”

Here’s why:
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I Don’t Know What Santa Was Doing To Mommy

December 11th, 2011 by todd merriman

Just…wrong…
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