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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVzuE8T9A8I

Have my presentation of my research paper today. Deciding how OTT to do the "dress up more smartly than casual student outfit" comment we were all given. Suited and booted yes, but.. hm. checking the weather. Maybe waistcoat and pocketwatch. Possibly two-tone shoes or the snakeskin cowboy boots. Maybe even a cravat instead of a tie.... Sometimes you just have to find the incredibly silly options to help you through the day....

I might by chance have spent more time playing Deadfire than in the revision I had planned... But I will say this, Deadfire is really quite pretty...

Juggling procrastination. On the one hand.. I have an exam tomorrow, and presentation on Monday to prepare for. On the other.. Deadfire did get released.

Isn't there technically a slight difference between supple leather.. and actual boiled leather that does provide more of a firm defense against the typical bronze and early iron age weapons from those periods in time? There's a vast difference between a bronze age khopesh, or antenna sword, the iron age roman spatha, and a damascus steel scimitar. Of course, that was also the reason they the Legions swiftly evolved to metal lorica segmenta and then early forms of chain mail... Of course, if you just want some interesting and pretty designs... Check out https://www.princearmory.com/gallery/

For thsoe who might be looking for some random sci-fi... Story Bundle - SciFi

The story behind FanCons controversial collapse

For the joys of May the Fourth...

Huh, for those in the areas ofthe four Mr. K's Used Books in Asheville, North Carolina, Charleston and Greenville, South Carolina, and Johnson City, Tennessee. Robert Jordan's personal library collection up for sale

EM Ervin - Thank you for coming When authors pop short stories online set between the books they write..

I've been doing the Yuki Kajiura kick as I work on presentation stuff tonight. I wonder if it's having an effect on my work... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfJnHdBC-X8

A nice move.. (Even if they are all Disney now...)