Sitting safely put away? Dethklok tickets! Woo! Just under two weeks away!

If you were thinking of buying PvZ Popcap has it 50% off this weekend.

This week has taught me I do poorly without feedback. I've accomplished not a damn thing. Maybe next week.

OMG OMG OMG!

My Dad sent me a Wii!

Next week is Fall Recruits. Thanks to the con runner Duane generously agreeing to cover our hotel room we'll be going after all. We should make enough to break even like last time so we're not worried about it. Hopefully I have not just jinxed myself.

Anyone in the Lee's Summit, MO area is welcome to come by and bug us at the AAG booth. :)

It is steeped in racism when a man calls the President a liar. (Forgetting the fact it was wrong as per the rules of the House.) But it's NOT at all racist to put out Chia Obama. To me that is more offensive. Even if I liked our president I would not ever have that thing.

Hope, hope, hope we get the artist I want to design the cover for one of our upcoming supplements. Fingers crossed, people! That's an order! ;) It's our Legions of Light and Dark supplement for Ambush Z. We've got a cover decision for Pulp Alley finally. Not that the rules are done, but there was dramazomg!

I want Legions out in time for Halloween gaming. That means Shawn and I need to get writing I suppose. I will know by the middle of this week if I will get the cover I want for Legions. Hopehopehope we get some good news here!

Also...pumpkin spice latte time. I've realized this year that for the last three years we've been hit with serious money issues right before pumkin spice latte season hits. Damn the universe conspiring against me! I bought one today anyway!

Allergies/cold time. I feel like crap and overslept and all that. Tonight's plans? Total vegetation with either movies or video gaming. And now that I've got my DS to connect to our network I love its cute pinkness even more! :)

You have to figure this manager was fired not long after this happened. If not you really have to wonder who she was in bed with to save her job.

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Tonight we are in OKC. Fiscally a good idea? No. But we needed a night to ourselves away from home. We're at our usual hotel and have popcorn, pop, M&Ms and a free movie. Going to watch Wolverine. Also had the most amazing lemon cake for dessert. If you eat at Macaroni Grill try the Lemon Passion.

Tomorrow it's home and back to reality. Tonight we regroup.

Rumor has it that in order to opt into the government run health care system you will have to kill one of your neighbor's children.

I personally find this too high a price to pay as one of my neighbor's children is also my husband.

I just want to spread the word a little more so I'm pasting this directly from the Ambush Alley Games forum.

Last month I received an e-mail from Sgt. Pete Gill who is currently stationed in Khandahar, Afghanistan. He asked for some gaming supplies to help establish a wargaming club for NATO service members in Khandahar. We immediately shipped him everything we print and e-mailed him all our PDF products as well.

Several miniatures companies, including Chieftain, S&S, Chiltern, and TAG responded with generous donations.

Now it seems the boys are lacking in scenery, so Ambush Alley Games is taking donations to purchase them province worth of scenery.

If you are interested in donating cash for the purchase of scenery and other gaming supplies for use by NATO gamers in Khandahar, please make a PayPal donation to:

ambushalleydonations(at)gmail.com

If you're a manufacturer of 28mm modern figures, vehicles, or scenery and would like to donate product to Sgt. Gill's club, please contact me at ambushalley@gmail.com for his shipping information.

Take care,

Shawn.

You can visit the thread You don't need to be a member to read. If you know anyone who might be interested in donating money or even terrain you can contact us at ambushalley(at)gmail.com 100% of donated money minus paypal's fees will go to helping them buy little buildings and so on for their games. If you can't give anything, and we know times are tight, then prayers for their safety are never something to be turned down.

Today, well, sucked. Completely. Totally. Utterly.

Except for one bright spot. Shawn got a bday card in the mail from Kathy. His friend and former gfriend from high school. The funny thing? She sent him the same card as me. It was a different picture, but it was the same card and we'd wrote nearly identical messages inside. So I emailed her and asked for my brain cell back. :)

Little things that make me happy in no particular order:

My birthday present which arrived a couple weeks ago. Five books of Schlock Mercenary in a lovely box.
It rained today. If only for a little bit.
Two Schlock Mercenary posters on order to be framed and go in the game room.
Downstairs toilet is fixed. Despite landlord and plumber not doing it ages ago. We went to Lowes and spent $12 and now it's fit for company again. :)
Shawn's first back to work paycheck. It all went to bills, but that means I can PAY BILLS again on time. I am happy.
I have a P Dog.
Comedy Central has ordered new Futuramas.
Burn Notice is back on.
I have a wonderful husband.
Ambush Alley is going well. Distributor has items being shipped off today. We mailed of stock to be sold at Origins. We have two people who want to sell at Historicon.
The car is almost paid off.


Little things that annoy me:

Shawn has not hung my whiteboard.
Still stuck with kids.
We cannot afford to order a decent amount of stock and have had to do several small orders recently.
Life got cancelled. :(
I need new shoes.
We may need to drive to Stillwater today to mail off package to distributor. Stupid FedEx is being a bitch.
I do not get to go see my family next month and now have to wait another year before getting to see them.
Emma ate Shawn's ipod cord and I cannot find mine and cannot charge it.

Comedy Central has ordered 26 new episodes of Futurama to begin airing in 2010!!!!! Finally some good news regarding tv. THANK YOU Comedy Central!

Last night Shawn got an email from a games distributor in the US asking about carrying AAG products. Woo! We're waiting to hear back from him, but that would be awesome as he services about 20 stores in the US and Canada.

Also...also...SHAWN GOT A JOB! Woo! :) He is gainfully employed outside of the home. Well, he's working from home, but still. Now we can actually reinvest AAG money into the company and not just live off it. Happy days!

For anyone who heard about our fun weather we're ok. Spent a little time in the basement as a precaution, but not too long. Everything went north or west of us thankfully.
Now to get everything done I could not last night thanks to potential tornadoage.

My office is nearly organized. Huzzah, We still need to do a bit more cleaning, but once again I have a desk to use. Shawn got a printer stand so I would have my desk back. And now it's organized for my shipping area. Which takes up a LOT of it. :) We should be getting Force on Force ANY DAY NOW. It seems like forever. Out of the 105 copies ordered 85 of them are already accounted for. This is nice. Even if shipping is inching up to about $700 right now. Ugh. Shelves have been moved in to store stock on and in doing so we realized oops we don't have enough Day of the Rangers for an outstanding order. Argh! More ordered though and the seller is likely to be fine taking 9 and not 10, but that's one sale lost. Alas!

In the meantime Ambush Alley is appearing in Wargames Illustrated. Whee. Shawn's still got an interview to do for a podcast. Yay! And Osprey Press did another AMAZING review of Force of Force. You know you wanna head it PDF sales, where our real money comes from, have been just great. And people who buy Force on Force tend to buy other stuff is well. We love em! And soon we'll be branching out a wee bit to try to draw more in.

But first scenario packs. Whee. Shawn's going to try to get three written in the next week and a half. And I am going to keep looking for a job, but...well, it's Enid. :p Next week marks the 2 year anniversary of Emma's arrival on our porch. I have to mention Emma somewhere! :)

Anyway there's a random update mostly about the company as usual. Now I will go do dishes.

Excuses all around. Whatever the case they've really handled it poorly. But I've been reading a lot of stuff about how 'Amazon would never do that.' All I have to say to that is maybe not corporate Amazon, but they certainly hire people who discriminate. When Shawn applied to work in the warehouse in the 90s he was told they thought he would be too old to work there (at 35) because he "wouldn't like the music they listened to there." Even after he pointed out he listened to that same music. And that was not even a polite excuse to say he was fat because at the time he was still mountain biking and riding his bike everywhere and was in way good shape...then we met... Hmmm. Wait, that's off the point.

I'm just saying eventually the quality of people you hire /will/ reflect on you in either a positive or negative light. It would at least have been nice to see some actual statement of apology splashed on the front of their website. You know, replacing the giant kindle ad that sits there and mocks me whenever I go. :) At least that won't be an issue any more.

In a nutshell: Amazon has pulled sales rankings off books that have gay and lesbian romance in them because they have decided they should be labeled adult content. A link to give all details.

Just...wtf. Way to go Amazon. This totally earns the bad Emma icon.

Despite Deathstorm 90-09 we have returned! I'll have to sit and do the math tomorrow, but it looks like we came out a little ahead too. :) Dad sent my birthday money which I squandered as told to. Got some nifty figs and a couple of...well, pieces. Vehicle sort things for a pulp game.

Home safe, sound, and exhausted. Tomorrow we get the P Dog back. Whee!

I ran five games of AZ on Saturday. Whew! And helped with several AA games. It was fun. I'd do it again. Someday when my feet have recovered. ;) Now I am going to go crawl up the stairs to bed.