This week I discovered two programs on PBS that caught my nostalgia. The first one, Tracks Ahead, is about trains and model railroading. I grew up with HO train sets and race tracks. And once the channel-surfing fell to that program, I was enthralled. Our family never had the space to build a permanent layout, so I only got to set up circles or figure eight’s in my bedroom for a few days at time before I had to put my toys away. At one point I did get a 4×8 … Continue reading
Category Archives: Generic Rambling
I guess I should start by way of some sort of introduction. I actually started this blog on a whim after reading The Ancient Gaming Noob’s blog (http://tagn.wordpress.com/). As I’m also an “older gamer” but somewhat of a noob. Mostly because I switch games faster than they can release them it seems. I’m also somewhat of a solo MMO player, which just seems to irk the hell out of some MMO players. But I think Jeff Strain (co-founder of ArenaNet) summed it up well in a recent keynote speech “The fact … Continue reading