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Been a little lax in posting this week. It's been a rough week. My wife, who has been a partially employed teacher (some long-term sub positions but nothing permanent) for two the past two years received an offer only to have it rescinded. This is a brutal, brutal economy for people in the public sector.

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Welcome to my little corner of the internet. So what's this blog all about? It's my attempt to create a blog of things that are of interest to me and, hopefully, to some others. I've tried my hands at a hardcore political blog and while I'm a political junkie, wading into various culture wars as a primary focus got to be a bit on the painful side. I'm also a huge gaming, science fiction, and fantasy geek. So how to tie this all together? Well, looking at the title there's an obvious reference to Dungeons & Dragons and other roleplaying game - "I'm a 19th level elven wizard with +5 against orcs so don't mess with me!" Needless to say this blog will spend a fair amount of time discussing tabletop gaming. Then getting a little too clever by half we've got a reference to Stephen King's  Dark Tower  series. Without going into spoilers, that number takes on a significance in that series of novels. I was introduced to Stephen King...