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| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 02:49 pm: Edit |
Ouch! Hope you recover quickly!
| By Terry O'Carroll (Terryoc) on Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 12:16 am: Edit |
I wonder if the sneezing is being caused by wildfire smoke? Maybe triggering some kind of allergic reaction? In any case, I hope recovery is swift
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 09:34 am: Edit |
I thought I might stagger into work today but I'm coughing and sneezing so much that I don't think Jean would want me polluting the office with virus.
| By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 11:00 am: Edit |
SVC, you posted yesterday that it was bad enough that you, in your own words, "... Could not focus enough to... Coherently form a thought."
You go in, do some work, prolong your illness, and still end up doing stuff there that you will need to correct once better health returns.
Please understand that we sympathize with a reasonable need for convalescence time. 
| By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 12:53 pm: Edit |
If one has a some kind of respiratory illness, then it can limit the effectiveness of your cardio system and limit the amount of oxygen getting to your brain. That can lead to the tiredness and inability to focus.
If you try to "fight through it" you are just starving your brain of more oxygen. Better to take it slow and rest, and as your oxygen level recovers your body will naturally tell you.
Brains with insufficient oxygen not only can't focus, they make very poor decisions. But in the moment, the oxygen starved brain can think it is making a good decision.
In short, rest when you are sick! Perhaps listen to some soothing music or background noise like ocean waves or rain, and take a nice nap. Ultimately, it will save you time.
--Mike
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, March 15, 2024 - 03:19 am: Edit |
Like I said, I stayed home Thursday to rest. Not sure about tomorrow. I might make it in for an hour in mid-afternoon. Or not. At this point I can focus fine, but I'm still coughing and sneezing which is dangerous for others. If I get SPP sick, I could literally kill some of the old people in his senior center hotel. Not to mention, if I get Jean sick, she will kill me.
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, March 16, 2024 - 03:33 am: Edit |
I woke up this morning feeling worse than ever, and didn't really become functional until very late in the day. I was feverish and dizzy and sleepy all day, but finally became functional about 10pm.
I think I'll get to work on Monday. This was just a bad cold but @#$% I don't need any more of this.
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, March 29, 2024 - 03:21 am: Edit |
One darn fool thing after another. SPP was sick Wednesday and Thursday and missed work. I had skin cancer surgery Thursday (fourth time in four months) and it really kicked me hard, the pain, the shock to the system, the nervousness than kept me from sleeping Wednesday night. I have been asleep most of the time since I got home Thursday afternoon. I think I'll make it to work tomorrow but either with pain or pain killers, either of which leave me fuzzy.
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, March 29, 2024 - 04:07 pm: Edit |
SPP and I are both at our desks. Not 100%, but we're here.
| By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Friday, March 29, 2024 - 08:04 pm: Edit |
There are pros and cons to that....
Just hope the cons don't get any ideas...
| By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Monday, May 13, 2024 - 11:26 pm: Edit |
One wonders- why no Vulcan ships? That could have been cool.
| By Mike Dowd (Mike_Dowd) on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 12:41 am: Edit |
Jack: If you are referring to designs like the D'kyr (as seen on Enterprise), it lies outside the scope of their license.
There are Vulcan designs, but I believe that their appearances were done in agreement with Silent Death, which provided many of the shapes for the W era ships.
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 12:41 am: Edit |
We did Vulcan ships in Early Years.
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 08:59 am: Edit |
The silent death ships were used for the ISC national fleets, and the later Terran ships (obviously not the CL and Pol based designs). The other Federation national fleets were not based on any figures at all. The general shapes and designs were suggested by players for the most part.
| By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 01:16 pm: Edit |
Ah, I never played with early years ships. I only play tournament ships nowadays. It would have been cool to have a Vulcan CA series of ships that might have led to a Vulcan TCC. Something with a different set of cool and very logical weapons.
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 04:55 pm: Edit |
If SFB, only the Andorians didn't switch to photons when tactical warp was introduced. (They used drones for a while.) So, any theoretical Vulcan TCC would simply make use of photons and phasers. It would not be as much of a difference as you seem to be thinking it would be.
| By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 09:30 pm: Edit |
Mike - that idea certainly would not make tournaments any more fun. I would hope for something completely else - Mind meld cannons and the Vulcan Nerve Warp Pinch. Something else.
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Monday, July 01, 2024 - 11:17 am: Edit |
Steve,
Apparently your ISP has my primary email service's IPs blacklisted. And my ISP hasn't fixed things on my end yet. I did try to resend the information using my backup gmail accout (mjwest83), but haven't see a response. I just want to make sure you got the message or if I need to resend it.
Thanks!
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, July 01, 2024 - 02:36 pm: Edit |
Mike: last from you was "two topics" on 6/23.
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Tuesday, July 02, 2024 - 12:43 pm: Edit |
That is the correct one. Thank you!
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, February 03, 2025 - 04:30 pm: Edit |
COLONEL CHUCK STRONG: please email me. Email I have sent to you failed.
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 04:35 pm: Edit |
THINGS I NEED TO DO
Push Jean to get the Orion MSSB done.
Work on the ISC MSSB so it's easier for Jean to finish.
Work on CIVIL WARS.
Get some kind of production deal for 3d minis done; pushing Jean & Albert to make this happen.
Make some kind of progress on CAPTAIN'S LOG 55.
Get the deal done with the new joint venture partner.
Simulator expansions for FedCom
Fighters and X-ships for FedCom
Star Fleet Marines 3: armored cavalry
Prime Directive Gorns
Other stuff
Other stuff
Other stuff
Ships for the newsletter
Tell Jean what a great job she did making the company work.
Check on Petrick, whereever he is.
Learn to play tanks in Battletech.
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, April 27, 2025 - 03:05 am: Edit |
I don't know why this random memory came up, but it did. I haven't thought about the incident in decades but it was one that bothered me for a long time.
At Origins 2 in 1976, I was at the JagdPanther booth. I was alone, with a pile of games and a cash box. Someone walked up to me and said "I am here for a friend of mine (name). Months ago, he sent you money for (product) and never got it. He wants his money back. Give it to me."
I was flabbergasted. I asked if he had any documentation and he said no, he didn't need any, his friend had told him everything. I pointed out that when I got money I sent product, and it the product never arrived, he should have sent a letter at the time, not a friend months later. This did not dissuade the guy, who kept demanding the money in a louder and louder voice. There was nothing like security at those early conventions.
I pointed out that I did not walk around with my business records for every transaction and shipment, and had no way to verify if we had ever gotten an order from this person. This didn't matter, the guy insisted, his friend said I owed him money and that was all he needed to tell me. He continued to demand the money. It was a small amount (although given 49 years I suppose it's a more significant amount now) so I gave it to him, but this whole thing didn't sit well.
Was there such a friend? Did that friend send me money? Did I sent his product? Did the product arrive? Did I ever hear from this person about a lost order? None of those questions ever got answers. By the time I got home I didn't even remember enough of the incident to look it up. We shut down five months later when we figured out that our business plan had never included making a profit and we were basically working for free because it was fun, and well, it wasn't fun any more, although not because of the incident related here.
Customer service is one thing, but I always wondered "did I get scammed?" Other people did commit various scams over various times. About the same time someone who bought a $6 product send an angry letter saying he had bought $36 worth of products and gotten only one of the six. He included a photo copy of the check, showing both sides. The front was made out to us for $36 and showed a date; the back had our deposit stamp. We looked it up by the date and found a $6 order from that person with a different check number dozens o f numbers earlier (the number was on the deposit slip which we still had). There were no other checks from his person. As the check was from his mother, we wrote her a letter and suggested that she verify for herself that her son was lying and trying to steal. She sent a nice apology letter back and said she had taken away her son's games because of his dishonesty. So you cannot always assume that every claim of "you owe me money" is valid.
I remember another incident (TFG this time) where someone on a chat group kept saying "Steve Cole owes me $50 [equivalent funds in 2025] and won't pay me." The way we did business, that was just not possible. We demanded that he give us his name and the particulars of the situation that resulted in the debt. After refusing to give his name several times, he finally did, and we found that he had written a scenario and had been sent a copy of the product, which fulfilled our long-stated policy. The idea that he was due not just the product but some imaginary fee of $50 was one we could not compute.
I don't know why these memories flood back at 2am on a Sunday morning and get me all upset.
| By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Sunday, April 27, 2025 - 04:58 am: Edit |
I cannot tell you how many times I've woken up in the middle of the night with similarly vexing thoughts of decades past. It's a true annoyance.
| By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Sunday, April 27, 2025 - 10:41 am: Edit |
Memory is a funny thing.
In computers, data is stored in a variety of ways (ram, rom, magnetic media etc…)
In humans, it is organically recorded in the gray matter sometimes referred to as the “brain.”
Often, different senses can trigger different memories. Sight, sound, smell, touch.
Stress can be a trigger.
So can changes in ones life circumstances. Such as an injury (broken leg for example) that changes an active life style to a less active one.
Changes in ones family or friends groupings.
If you subscribe to a particular school of psychology, (say Freud, for example), it might be your subconscious talking to you about something.
Guilt, sorrow, apprehension of future events etc.
If it helps, you could send $50.00 to every Star Fleet Battles customer, along with a “thanks for your business” card.
I know I would appreciate it.
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Monday, April 28, 2025 - 09:28 am: Edit |
I would not appreciate it. That could literally put ADB out of business, and that would be far worse than getting $50.
| By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Monday, April 28, 2025 - 11:58 am: Edit |
I was not being serious.
It was a joke.
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, May 05, 2025 - 03:33 pm: Edit |
UPDATE ON "TO DO" LIST
Jean has read the Orion book so we're giving it back to SPP to review.
I have done the LCW scenario and gave it to Jean who has marked all over it; I haven't fixed that yet.
I have read the ISC book and turned it over to Albert.
Albert has the ACTA3 book ready for Jean to proofread.
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