Sidetracked

So, most of August I was diligently working on researching Carolingian warfare for my Runequest SRD based gaming book. However, with the school year starting I've been a little busy with the kids sports schedules, increased work business, and my new gadgets. Over the weekend I picked up Bachrach's Early Carolingian Warfare book from Interlibrary loan through Ohio State. I'll have to finish the last 40 pages of Halsall's Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West 450-900 and get started on the new one.

80's and early 90's rap

So far, I'm finding myself utilizing the Old School Rap digital music channel a lot. It's too bad that there isn't a radio station that plays these songs. I mean, I can find old country, classic rock, and 50s-60's music. The only downside is that sometimes the channel is classic disco. Seriously, who wants that channel?

Scientific Atlanta 8300HDC

So, we had a new cable box installed today. It includes an HD DVR. I went to Target and picked up an HDMI cable to run it to our HDTV and the picture looks great. I'll test the recording capability out tonight with Survivorman on Discovery and Human Weapon on the History channel. I wish that Ohio State's season opener was on cable tomorrow, but unfortunately Time Warner hasn't worked out a deal yet.

Took the plunge

Well, after reading so much about blogs and having run an about me page off of Tripod's free service since 1996 I've went ahead and registered a personal domain (see patricktingler.com) and set up a blog. I'm not sure how much I'll utilize the blog, but I'll try and post something when I can.