Lots going on here at SUS HQ!  I got the first PDF in the new “Thinking Races” series up last night.  I have two more on deck right behind that one, and several more in process behind that.

I also got my laptop set up on the home wireless network last night, so I will not have to compete with my wife for CPU time while she is in class.

I wathced the first half of Heroes last night, and so far I am digging it.  Not sure I like the elder Petrelli’s sudden intrest in God, but we’ll see where it goes. I love the new DVR that lets me watch stuff when I have the time; now I can catch Attack of the Show whenever I want!  And South Park, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.  Yeah, I like the new DVR.

Adobe just announced the CS4 suite that will ship in October or November.  I feel like I just bought CS3 (which I did) but now I have to save my nickles to upgrade the CS4.  It will be worth it for many of the things I have planned for the future. Gotta dig into more of the upgraded features; I am especially interested in adding some more Flash elements into my listings.

On the political front the huge bail-out fiasco is taking up all the headlines.  I love how we keep hearing how it is a lack of regulation that is to blam for all this mess; as if MORE government intervention is the solution.  Does anyone really believe that the home mortgage industry isn’t regulated?  That stock traders are not regulated? The fact of the matter is that the financial and real-estate markets are heavily regulated and that has been part of the problem; insane regulations requiring and encouraging banks to loan money to folks who are not qualified to repay them.  (No the “Keep-Up-With-The-Jones” consumer doesn’t get off the hook for not reading the fine print or getting in over their heads, nor do the greedy brokers who made as many loans as possible only to sell them off as quickly as possible.)  But for Congress (going back many years, not just this Congress) to pretend to be blameless in this is an outright, bold-faced lie.

Look, if I throw my life savings into opening a retail game shop and it goes bust in a year or two then I am not magically entitled to get money from Uncle Sam to bail me out of a bad financial decision.  Why is it different for these companies?  The fact of the matter is that companies fail, and should be allowed to.  Capitalism will find the best way to deliver goods and services to consumers; it may be messy and result in some hard times, but it works.  It works better than any beurocratic solution ever tried in all the history of mankind. We didn’t bail out and prop up the viynl record industry when CD’s came along.  We didn’t “save” the riding crop industry when cars came on the scene.  Sometimes you just gotta tighten your belt and pay your bills.  America needs to start doing this now.  Handing a blank check to some guy in the Treasury to try to buy our way out of this mess IS NOT THE ANSWER. Seriously, they want no oversight, no review and no accountability for a single person who was appointed,not elected, to spend almost a Trillion bucks of our money.  Bzzzz; wrong answer. OK, I am easing down and stepping off the Soap Box.

Looking forward to the first presidential debate Friday night.  I never expect any of them to actually say stuff worth hearing; the debates are all sizzle and no steak in my opinion.  But it will be nice to see them square off one-on-moderated-one.

Looks like Priateer Press is saying no the 4E GSL for their Iron Kingdomes RPG.  What an epic fail the GSL has turned out to be.  Maybe that will turn around with the revision, but I doubt it.  With the initial middle finger of theGSL, a watered down”apology” of a slight revision isn’t gonna help.  Mybe WOTC will get smart, prolly not.  I mean I saw anothe $25.00 module for sale the other night; I simply have trouble swallowing the idea of that much scratch for a product that is not intended to be re-used in the same way a rule book or suppliment is.  Sure, maybe the maps can be re-used; but still.