Gary Gygax died on Tuesday. Along with Bill James and the folks who created Intellivision, Gygax was an unwitting participant in my misspent youth. He probably also helped me survive said youth, but that’s another story.
Seriously, we had plenty of ways to waste time before this here Internet thing. My humblest thanks to Mr. Gygax for helping me realize that.
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So, baseball. They’re playing games but I haven’t watched any, so I don’t have much to say. Thankfully that’s about to change. Here’s the Padres spring training TV schedule (times are PT, games on Channel 4SD):
- Sun, Mar 9 vs White Sox, 1:05 p.m.
- Mon, Mar 10 vs Rangers, 7:05 p.m.
- Fri, Mar 14 vs Dodgers (in China), 10:05 p.m.
- Sat, Mar 15 vs Dodgers (in China), 10:05 p.m.
- Tue, Mar 25 vs Royals, 7:05 p.m.
- Fri, Mar 28 vs Angels (at Petco Park), 7:05 p.m.
We’ll fire up our first IGD of the year on Sunday, see if it still works. I’ll be at the game, which reminds me…
I’m heading to Peoria on Thursday. I’ve talked to some of you already, but if I haven’t and you’re planning to be there over the weekend, drop me a line so we can make plans or whatever.
Will I have copies of the book? Not likely. I know, I totally suck. They’re en route — somewhere in Illinois at last check. Worst case, I’ll have my copy that we can pass around like a cheap… er, we can pass it around and then I’ll make sure to get yours to you when we’re back in San Diego.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need some elixir of waking…