Christmas Update

   I'm presently enjoying a quiet Christmas here at home watching John Wick 3. The first wave of the Dice of Death & Dismemberment (DoD&D) Kickstarter arrived a while back as did the Triple Hex Dice. The original base set the DoD&D had two torso dice and no arm die. I informed the seller and they said they'd correct matters. I thought they would send out the missing die and I would send back the extra torso die. Instead, they sent me two arm dice, a head and a leg die. Now I have two basic sets of DoD&D along with a complete set of stretch goal dice. The second wave is due to be sent out in February.

  The Triple Hex dice sets cover the entire RPG dice range. The d100 Hex Die is just a d100. It came with two identical sets of dice disks along with extra washers. The other two Hex Dice sets have interchangeable dice disks. What dice disks you put inside the frame depends on what die you want to roll. Both of them also came with extra dice disks and washers.

  I've finalized my Orbidice order. I went with a Forge Engine Steampunk RPG set with an Orbitray dice tower. The GoDice pre-production has happened. Some issues were discovered and need to be ironed out before mass production can begin. That being said, progress is being made. The Free Man Game, based on The Prisoner British TV series, is being printed and should be mailed out soon.

  I ran a Chi-squared test on my d4 and d6 Hexacubes. Both passed easily. I won't bore you with a complete layout of the data. At some point, I'll likely test the other dice and see how well they perform. From what James tells me, the d10 and d12 have the least amount of redundancy but both should still perform better than a standard d10 and d12.

  It's one week until New Year's Day. I have New Year's Eve and New Year's Day off. I'm hoping to spend that time playing boardgames with my friends over at Glenn's house but I haven't heard anything yet.

  I'm still working closing shifts at work. Hopefully, they'll hire more people and I'll go back to earlier shifts. All the standing I do at work is hard on my legs. I sometimes get pains behind my right knee. I've been filling out the pension documents the union has been sending me. I'm not sure if I can get my pension now or not. It says that I can receive my pension at either 60, 62 or 65 depending on the plan. I'll have to call the pension office and get some questions answered before I can proceed.

Gwar @ The Rave, Nov. 4th

   After promising to post photos and videos from Gwar's Nov. 4th concert at The Rave, here they are. The opening two bands were EyeHateGod and Napalm Death. Here are some photos of them.

This is EyeHateGod.

And this is Napalm Death.

  And now we come to Gwar. I uploaded three videos of the songs Salaminizer, Black & Huge and Fuck This Place. Here they are for your enjoyment.

 

  I was happy to Techno Destructo (Hunter Jackson) at the show. He hasn't been touring with Gwar for some time. Like I said in a previous post, I was disappointed that Slymenstra Hymen, Sexecutioner and Sleazy P. Martini weren't there. I still enjoyed the show.

If you watch the video closely, you can see some of the instances where I get hit by the various fluids being sprayed at the crowd. Here are some after concert photos of my niece, Annie, her husband, John and myself after the show.

  And here are some photos of the front and back of the Gwar shirt I wore to the show.