I have been away from my computer for a couple of days. Looks like I have missed a lot.

I combined my dice order with kfrog71 & I am looking forward to getting them.

Are we ready to order shirts?

Kfrog71 & my venue is growing so we ran out of boosters for sale Saturday. I will be looking for trade or purchase to finish my set.

I hope all Ogres will join the contest from the other site we cannot mention for the Factory Set. I would like see contests like that hear on the realms.

My daily prayer is that I go to bed a wiser man than when I awoke.

So...uh...you wanna shoot me a PM regarding That Site? Seriously, I have no clue.

I just sent a PM to you in regards to the shirts.

The show remains enjoyable, despite a few times where it approaches sitcom structuring in terms of how deeply close to discovery Dexter gets and how he gets (or is gotten) out of it. I do hope the show wraps (and does so well) before it really jumps the shark. I'll miss it, but I'd rather have it be a well done, completed package than become less than it's been. For now, though, I look forward to the new season... probably in late September.

For me, so much depends on the weather (heat with humidity is a deal-breaker) and whether or not I have a means of getting clean regularly. Once we've passed two days where I can't get well washed up and civil society quickly starts to vanish. I enjoy and am often nostalgic for the times I spent living in the mountains, with no electricity, but a propane tank for the stove. That's pretty much my comfort baseline, though -- shelter and a bed. Sleeping bag level out on the ground... very limited joy factor there for me, especially if I knew I couldn't just get up and be indoors somewhere within half an hour.

So 120 degrees and 90% humidity with no shower/laundry for three weeks doesn't appeal to you?

That's "kill or be killed, but one way or another I'm not staying" conditions.

I've seldom been interested/drawn in by competition, so much of what makes for a good soldier and/or team athlete is simply not present in my psychological makeup. I don't care, and someone trying to shame or dare me into something doesn't work because someone's assertion or intimation that I couldn't hack it rolls off me. I cannot respect any person or system that tries to shame someone into action. I detect any of that and my brakes go on all the tighter just to spite the people trying the tactic.

I just got into Dexter last year. But I started with Season 1 and watched all the way through season 5. If my memory serves me correctly, season 3 was excellent and so was season 4. I can't imagine having jumped on during season 4 and watching though, I would feel quite lost.

I must agree that hopefully they don't let the show run too long. It could definitely lose it's "fun" if it doesn't run a couple more seasons and tie everything together in one monster of a final season.

Ugh, Sunday household chores are calling my name. I've been procrastinating for a couple hours now, but I suppose I should get them done.

On a positive note, once I'm done with the chores, I get to sitdown and play some Smackdown vs. Raw 2011.

I'm aware of it as I've been on The Le's mailing list from the start. I wish those who are interested luck with being part of fun events, but I quickly saw it wasn't anything I was interested in.

I completely agree with this (except the competition part). I'm extremely competitive, however this is only with games. It's funny, because I'm not an extremely competitive person where Heroclix is concerned (usually) but when it comes to all other games, I will settle for nothing else but a win. However, if I were in a situation of being shamed into something as Miraclo outlined, I would have the same reaction as he did/does.

I happened to catch my first episode (Season 4) at some friends' house, and then went to Wikapedia for a synopsis. Also was able to watch some of season 3, so I had some idea of what had happened as I watched the last two seasons. Without that, you are correct that it would have been hopeless. But after finally seeing the actual first season, lots of things now make more sense. I was a bit worried when season 5 started, but all in all, enjoyed it. Can't imagine how it will end.

I'm curious to see how they decide to end it. Whether it'll be left open or given a definitive close. If the latter, will the universe be as forgiving to Dexter as it's been?

In an age when shows are being seen eventually as box sets it's been interesting to see how shows have (or failed to) wrap. The ones that had enough warning to craft a concluding episode have worked or not to different degrees for me.

Just looking at shows such as DEXTER, that were built for pay tv (HBO & Showtime, in these instances) that have come to an end (I'll leave any series-ending spoiler aspects in Spoiler brackets in case someone's still thinking of adding them to a Netflix list):

OZ: Understandable, but unsatisfactory ending.

Sopranos: Some found it artful, but I had to come down on the side of gutless.

Deadwood: A sad trailing off as execs lied to the audience about coming back to do two movie-length projects to wrap the series' main arcs, but in the end did nothing. A generally superb, highly enjoyable, character-driven show, but the final season doesn't even go out with a whimper, just a sigh. Worth watching, but definitely lower one's expectations as the final episode approaches.

The Wire: Worked well for me, which was a surprise as I normally wouldn't be that interested in contemporary, urban settings and themes. (Its rough draft predecessor, The Corner, bored me almost immediately with its attempt to bring us something "authentic." So much so that I didn't make it past the first episode) It would have been much better and tighter had it been more consistently funded rather than left to languish for long, long stretches, virtually canceled, between seasons. We'd seen enough of the players move through and on to other stages of their lives that what was left open felt natural enough that I didn't resent it being "over."

Six Feet Under: An uneven series -- much depended upon which characters were the focus of a given episode -- it wrapped well by taking an interesting approach to putting a finis to each character's story in the final episode. The inconsistency of the series had put me off at times, and this is one of those instances where I likely watched the final season largely because I'd already put the time in on the characters and knew this was the final season. In the end, it felt worth it.

Big Love: This just wrapped a week back, and while the ending was left open it was a satisfactory ending. Much as with Six Feet Under, I felt we'd been toyed with a little too much and probably would have not bothered coming back for this last season if it hadn't been stated to be the final season. In the end, though, I was mostly satisfied with it.

Weekend chores almost always fall into two paths for me: I either jump in and get most of them done early in the weekend (late Friday/early Saturday), or I find that I end up with a very productive hour or two Sunday evening. Either way I hit Sunday night wishing it were Friday night again, and the list of things that "should have" been done still has items on it.

Some people grow up in very competitive-minded households, and this isn't always a bad thing. For some (possibly even many?) it's not too extreme, and is simply part of their playful, working dynamic, but it always strikes me (as outsider) as inherently hostile. Even with smiles (actually, that makes it worse) the "in your face" crowing after a successful move has always struck me as obnoxious.

If I'm at a venue and someone hears me laugh just after I've rolled the dice you can be almost assured that I've just missed what the odds would tell us was an easy roll. If you hear me laugh loudly, I just rolled a critical miss. The only times there might be an exception to this would be if my opponent had simply been unpleasant... and even then I don't believe I ever have.