Another Brief Update... I'm Still Alive!
STILL ALIVE...
But very, very swamped with preparations for the semester. I will try to get some emails out to all of you who've recently written this weekend.
Some progress has been made on the website front. I have a new design for Honved.com that I am reasonably pleased with, and a backup design (and backup domain name) if things go far south again with Geocities. So far, things are looking up with my offline site-building strategy, though I'd be the first to admit I haven't made nearly as much progress as I'd like given the extraordinary limitations on my time recently. I forgot how "fun" teaching could be for my off time.
Also, did manage to get in a miniatures game last Thursday. Pre-Dreds, no less. Pre-Dreds for the Spanish-American War!! We did Manila Bay. The game went very well. Finally seem to have found a set of rules that do what I would have liked to have done with my own, minus the headaches. Was, all in all, a very good experience, and a welcome respite from all the paperwork, bureaucracy, and syllabus writing. I'm afraid I don't have any photos to share - I forgot my camera phone, and Jen's isn't sending them to the right email address, but if I manage to salvage any, I shall be certain to post them here.
Incidentally, Mr. Pecson, if you're reading this: the Spaniards didn't manage to break out, but they did a fair amount of damage to the Yanqui Imperialistas before they passed into the great blue beyond. A good fight was had by all.
As for my personal situation, I will simply say that I haven't stopped missing everyone in Virginia (nor am I likely to - I hope to keep up contact and visit with all of you in the D.C. area as much as is possible), but that I am very gratified to have made good friends here who share similar interests. It's nice to have friends in the old home, and friends in the new, and a rather unique experience for me... I'm not particularly good at meeting people (I know, I know, this comes as an absolute shock to many of you).
All and all, I am starting to acclimate. With any luck, by the time I've been here a decade, I might even be willing to call it "home", instead of just "the new place".
Well, it's off to a department meeting. Will have something concrete and far less rambling once things have finally calmed down. It feels like nothing has been stable since around February of this year, and truth be told, this is really the case. From one firefight to another, it seems. But I'm healthy, generally happy, and free of any exotic diseases. What else can a man want?
But very, very swamped with preparations for the semester. I will try to get some emails out to all of you who've recently written this weekend.
Some progress has been made on the website front. I have a new design for Honved.com that I am reasonably pleased with, and a backup design (and backup domain name) if things go far south again with Geocities. So far, things are looking up with my offline site-building strategy, though I'd be the first to admit I haven't made nearly as much progress as I'd like given the extraordinary limitations on my time recently. I forgot how "fun" teaching could be for my off time.
Also, did manage to get in a miniatures game last Thursday. Pre-Dreds, no less. Pre-Dreds for the Spanish-American War!! We did Manila Bay. The game went very well. Finally seem to have found a set of rules that do what I would have liked to have done with my own, minus the headaches. Was, all in all, a very good experience, and a welcome respite from all the paperwork, bureaucracy, and syllabus writing. I'm afraid I don't have any photos to share - I forgot my camera phone, and Jen's isn't sending them to the right email address, but if I manage to salvage any, I shall be certain to post them here.
Incidentally, Mr. Pecson, if you're reading this: the Spaniards didn't manage to break out, but they did a fair amount of damage to the Yanqui Imperialistas before they passed into the great blue beyond. A good fight was had by all.
As for my personal situation, I will simply say that I haven't stopped missing everyone in Virginia (nor am I likely to - I hope to keep up contact and visit with all of you in the D.C. area as much as is possible), but that I am very gratified to have made good friends here who share similar interests. It's nice to have friends in the old home, and friends in the new, and a rather unique experience for me... I'm not particularly good at meeting people (I know, I know, this comes as an absolute shock to many of you).
All and all, I am starting to acclimate. With any luck, by the time I've been here a decade, I might even be willing to call it "home", instead of just "the new place".
Well, it's off to a department meeting. Will have something concrete and far less rambling once things have finally calmed down. It feels like nothing has been stable since around February of this year, and truth be told, this is really the case. From one firefight to another, it seems. But I'm healthy, generally happy, and free of any exotic diseases. What else can a man want?
posted by Aurelian at 3:58 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Alex
Nice to know that u r still alive n kicking. Ever since Dot and I have moved to the remote wilderness of St Mary's County and close proximity to Chesapeake Bay, I have rarely seen the other members of the group even at the cons.
I will be running a 15mm Culloden variant of Volley and Bayonet at Fall In, but I haven't forgotten my love of naval combat and the SAW. I read your comment on the Spanish breakout attempt and am glad to know that they caused more than the one casualty so claimed by Dewey, however...you know how history is written by the winner...blah blah blah.
I also saw your name in the Roman seas website group as I have brought the disk with the ships for the Late Roman Navy (another favorite period of mine) I still havent put the ships together, but all in good time.
Ben
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