There's an exciting world out there, and I want to conquer it.

Can anyone tell me who this quote is from?  If you said Mark Twain, I just found out you are wrong.  Snopes

I was planning on writing a post about how freaking cold it is in San Francisco right now.  It’s August and I feel like it’s almost Christmas.  Don’t get me wrong, there were quite a few hot weekends in May and June.  One July hit, it just started getting more and more chilly.  I’m afraid to even put my feet in my bed these days, because I’m not using my jersey sheets.  Which is a mental reminder for me, change to jersey sheets tonight.

Looking at wunderground.com, I noticed it says that San Francisco is going to be Sunny this weekend.  But it’ll be 61 degrees.  I’d say that’s still a huge win on the side of Summer. YEH!

There was something else that I wanted to talk about. Ah, yes.  Back to the Snopes article.  I noticed that the article talks about something called a treppenwitz or ‘staircase wit’.  A Treppenwitz is a comeback that comes long after the moment has passed.  You may have just been made fun of by one of your peers, but ended up not having a witty comeback, until you walk away and get in your car.  How sad… it happens to me all the time.  But, I usually call that a delayed reaction.  wikipedia

When I was growing up, my childhood best friend introduced me to a series of books called Lone Wolf. We were a couple of really geeky boys who loved to read, play video games, play MUD, play DnD, etc. It wouldn’t be long until we would find something as awesome as this Choose Your Own Adventure book. In Lone Wolf, you are the last of the warrior monks, known as the Kai Lords. Every few pages the reader would be able to make a choice and move you to another page, where there would be enemies, traps, random encounters, or more story.

While I was going through a board game price guide, I noticed a new game coming out called “Lone Wolf RPG: Heroes Of Magnamund”. Just seeing that name forced me to google it just to see if it was the same thing. And you know what? It was!

I started to read more about it on wikipedia which led me to find ProjectAon. ProjectAon started in the late 90s and seems to be keeping up the Lone Wolf culture. The game creator, Joe Dever, even gave them permission to publish the books publicly on the website. So if you get a chance check out this webpage: http://www.projectaon.org .

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