Healthcare, Kickstarter and Cthulhu Wars

  My quest for health insurance is proving fruitless. After submitting my information, even the cheapest plans are ridiculously priced. How the fuck do they expect me to pay for this? And that Good RX app is a fucking joke. My insulin pens cost a little over $400.00 without insurance. With the app, it's about $325.00. The price when I had insurance, $40.00. Yet they claim that the app can beat your insurance. Lying bastards. Looks like I'm going to be going without insurance for at least a year.
  Slowly but surely, my Kickstarter rewards are coming in. I recently received my 2 copies of Immersive Battle Maps and stickers. I've received a tracking number for my eDice unit. I should have that by the end of the month. The Randice expansion set should be mailed out soon. I've filled out the Hexacube dice survey. I originally paid for the Kickstarter only antique gold set with custom wooden dice box but I added on a pearl red set with a dark red with black logo felt bag. I really want to get my hands on these dice but they won't be sent out until May 2020. I've also backed the Spin Dice, Spellbook minis, Reversible Self Standing Microfiber dice bag and RPG Backstory card deck projects. The Spin Dice project is more than fully funded and the Backstory project has $2,547 of the $3,000 needed to fund the project with 40 days to go. The surveys for the Spellbook mini, microfiber dice bag and Critical Dice set have been completed. I haven't heard anything new regarding the Turn Keeper and Debunked card game yet. I'm going to hold off backing any more Kickstarters for the near future. I need to build up my bank accounts.
  I've purchased the Ancients faction, Cosmic Terrors and HPL First Player marker for my Cthulhu Wars game. I now have 9 factions that can be played along with the independent Azathoth expansion. I'd like to get a few more monsters and terrors for the game as well as a few independent Great Old Ones before New Year's Eve so I have a lot of options when I take the game over to Glenn's house.

 

Journal Times Article

  The Racine Journal Times ran an article asking readers to answer five questions regarding their hobby. I responded to their query and they ran the article on New Year's Day. The photograph below was taken by Scott Anderson, a photographer from the Journal Times of me and my Great Cthulhu Horror Clix miniature.

R'lyeh

R’lyeh

Hidden in the ocean’s depths

Away from human eyes.

A city lies beneath the waves

Away from starlit skies.

Few men have ever seen this isle

And gone away still sane.

The angles there work on the mind

And try to warp your brain.

At the top, a great door sits

As the entry to a tomb.

But it would be more correct to say

That it’s Great Cthulhu’s womb.

When the stars are right again

Cthulhu will be free.

And he will then rule all the world

In perverse depravity.

So if some day you’re on a boat

Enjoying the light of day.

Perhaps you’d like to visit him

In the corpse city of R’lyeh.

Azathoth

Azathoth

Insane piping

Distant flutes

Writhing chaos

Absolute.

Heart of Madness

Idiot god

Blind behemoth

Unnatural, odd.

Destructive power

Horror wrought

The Daemon Sultan

Azathoth