This is the stack of stuff I used to need to run a game…

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That there is a bunch of notes from a few different role playing games (mostly RIFTs) that I used to run before moving down to DC. Also before I had a laptop and smart phone as my two main tools to use.

Lots of memories in these folders and notebooks. Thankfully, most of them are also electronic now… so, eventually, it won’t be a problem to cut this pile down a little.

For now, it goes on the shelf with all the RPG books. 🙂

I have a lot of trouble parting with some things…

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This Jurassic Park themed bath pack, for example, was a graduation gift from a friend of mine. A high school graduation gift.

Notice that it’s still fully intact.

Yes, it was kind of a gag gift, but I’ve still attached a lot of meaning to it.

And I’m not quite ready to get rid of it yet.

(However, if anyone has an interest in vintage dinosaur-shaped bath products, I may be convinced to sell…) 😉

Once upon a time I did this model UN thing…

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It was my third trip to Canada and first to Montreal. (The other two were visits to Toronto.) The McGill Model UN was pretty awesome.

I met a bunch of people there, and now I’m wondering if I’ve run across any of them without knowing since I’ve been down here in DC. Wish I could remember more names.

Looks like there’s a paper I wrote about the whole thing… I’ll have to see if I have an electronic copy somewhere.

More classic finds…

Two trading cards from the early 90s: a pack of Desert Storm trading cards (from Topps) featuring this “dashing” pic of then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney… and a Garbage Pail Kids card (I’ve got a lot of these somewhere).

There are also packs of art trading/collector’s cards featuring art from Boris Vallejo, Greg Hildebrant, Frank Franzetta, and Moebius. Less notable: Youngblood and Ghost Rider sets. The disparity in art quality between the former batch and the latter is amazing…

Artifacts of days gone by…

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Yeah, that’s a bunch of more than ten year old, 8 hour, VHS tapes. And they’re all full of random TV show episodes from about 1998.

I was toying with the idea of converting them into a digital format to check out the old commercials and whatnot, but after watching stuff yesterday from another tape, I don’t think it’s worth it at all.

Of course, there are still some tapes from the two and a half large boxes I have that will get converted. Some of the stuff on them is irreplaceable. 🙂