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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Echoing of Babbles


It’s been quite a while since my last post.  I’m not apologetic, though I’ll tell you why the blog was idle. 

Sometimes even obsessive players need a lengthy break from this kind of intense hobby.  I know I did.  

Sometimes life intrudes on our hobbies.  My recent landscaping project consumed a lot of time (and even more money).  

Sometimes, we develop new interests that occupy our time, as my latest foray into photography has.  

But somehow, I always get sucked back into this old and comfortable pastime.  My incentive to return from this hiatus is May’s North American Championships and the Week of Nightmares.  It’s not so much the back-to-back tournaments that we play that week that lure me.
 
But the people……that’s the draw.  I get to see friends from everywhere in the world during that week-long marathon.   They are good people, fun people and often among the diabolically clever people I know.  The only downside is that much of the time we spend together is totally devoted to orchestrating their demise.

So, for at least a couple of months, I’ll be back to using Inferior Babble to organize my thoughts for the upcoming week of Nightmares.  Yes, I said I'm going for the people, but I can't help but try to be competitive at the same time.  

Once again, I welcome those of you demented enough to read along with me as I try to organize my thoughts in crystalline ways.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Sigh.....limited by design

I've been playing around with Blogspot's posting system and I'm finding it a bit limiting.  I might be able to work around the limitations, but I don't really want to deviate from the way Blogspot is intended to work.  So please be patient as I reinvent parts of the site.

2011 NAC blogs will still be posted as planned.  They will appear on the Home blog tab.  It's likely all the random thoughts and theories will also be appearing on that window, since that is the way the interface is designed.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The End of the Beginning

I think I'm finally ready to kick start this blog, just in time for the 2011 Week of Nightmares.  I'll be heading to Columbus on Saturday and will try to provide updates as the week unfolds.

Over the following weeks, I'll dump information in the "V:tES Theories" and "Decks & Testing" sections.  I've got several posts outlined already. 

When I get right down to it, that exercise is more for me than for anyone reading it. I find that the writing process helps focus my thinking in ways nothing else can.  So even if no one reads even a single word I've written, it's still really good for me. 

I know some of the concepts I post will fail.  Miserably fail.  Some won't but need to be tweaked.  A few will simply work.  Any way it happens, the process of thinking about things in new ways is what keeps me playing.  Even after 15 years with this amazing and frustrating game, I still find plenty of things to learn - often about myself more than V:tES. 

With that preamble out of the way, I guess I better start writing something useful instead of this pointless introduction.