Happy New Year to all.
Is it too early to prognosticate on the appearance of F&E Civil Wars or the next volume of the Master Ship Book series?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, January 04, 2024 - 08:48 pm: Edit

I am working on CW and Steve P is working on Orion MSSB.

By John M. Williams (Jay) on Thursday, January 04, 2024 - 10:02 pm: Edit

Happy to hear that you are feeling batter!

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 01:11 pm: Edit

I’m a big Gi Joe collector got a new figuer cobra operative scrap iron mobile missile launcher

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 09:35 am: Edit

The surgical pain in my neck remains annoying, more than that, it's hard to concentrate. I spent most of my productive time yesterday working on a deal for a new product line. That, and running errands. I do not remember any previous time in my life when I ran this many @#$% errands. Some of that is Steve P (I had to get his prescriptions, groceries, and some medical supplies at different places and then take them all to his apartment) but I still have three different bank errands (at different banks) to do and there is some problem with a credit card I have to fix on the phone. The church is bugging me about getting my baptism done but I cannot get the surgical site under water until the doctor clears it next week and I have more skin cancer surgery the week after, which will mean several days out of the office due to the pain. I need to ask Mike West to send me some SFB SSDs for the February newsletter.

By Russ Simkins (Madcowak) on Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 07:46 pm: Edit

As a paperless customer who can't get latest Captain's Logs (urgh!), a reminder that we're approaching the 5 year delay for CL53. Do I HAVE to wait until June?

CAPTAIN’S LOG #52- Date of Publication 13 March 2017 (Available as a PDF!)
CAPTAIN’S LOG #53- Date of Publication 21 June 2019
CAPTAIN’S LOG #54- Date of Publication September 2020

nag...nag...nag...nag...nag

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 10:18 pm: Edit

Please do not nag. Jean would be the one I need to talk to the most. She is quite sick with flu and cannot be expected to discuss that situation with me before the week after next week.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, January 29, 2024 - 07:33 pm: Edit

Tomorrow morning, I will have another round of skin cancer surgery. The surgery is minor, and not dangerous, and basal cancers are more annoying than deadly, but being on my head, the stitches to close the wound (the skin being very tight) it's gonna hurt enough to keep me out of the office for at least two days and maybe more. I'll be back, but not right away. This is a nothingburger, so your prayers and good wishes might be better directed to someone actually in danger, like the people of both sides in Gaza.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - 04:45 pm: Edit

The surgery was successful but as expected painful. I am on pain killers and cannot drive or focus, but they got all of the cancer.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - 06:43 pm: Edit

That's good to hear!

Best of luck on your recovery!

By Steve Stewart (Stevestewart) on Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 08:04 am: Edit

Good news Steve, hope you recover quickly!

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 11:27 am: Edit

Yeah my dad went through that...glad they got it all. Speedy recovery Steve!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 02:20 pm: Edit

Not as bad today, painkillers working, cannot really think straight, it hurts when I smile or blink or close my eyes. The skin is stretched very tight.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Thursday, February 01, 2024 - 12:12 pm: Edit

For the love of GOD don't sneeze!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, February 11, 2024 - 12:00 am: Edit

The skin cancer scar is still very sore but at least it's not blinding pain. At my age, something hurts all the time, usually more than one.

Word to the wise. Wear a hat outdoors, not a cap, a hat, with a brim.

And wear sunscreen if you're going to be out all day.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 05:20 pm: Edit

Somebody asked me to send him the FRAX insignia, and I realized we really needed to update the insignia/emblem file.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 06:35 pm: Edit

Row two column one -- is that eve or day??


Garth L. Getgen

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 11:40 pm: Edit

faction, not night nor day.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, March 08, 2024 - 01:23 pm: Edit

So far, Jean hasn't noticed the Fralli now have their own unique insignia.

Credit to DAVID BOSTWICK for inspiring me to do the update.

By Mike Curtis (Nashvillen) on Friday, March 08, 2024 - 01:38 pm: Edit

The Fralli one is both shocking and very ugly. We should endeavor to kill them all.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Friday, March 08, 2024 - 03:38 pm: Edit

I disagree.

The Fralli insignia needs to be large, double sided. One for the front and the back, some thing like a snipersscope view of a very large red bulls eye.

Just to make it easier to hit.
afterall, all non Fralli need every advantage possible.

By Russ Simkins (Madcowak) on Friday, March 08, 2024 - 05:21 pm: Edit

The Fralli insignia should be and always remain a mystery. No one knows what the insignia really is since it always has a paper bag over it.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Friday, March 08, 2024 - 05:30 pm: Edit

"Valentian?"

"All Hallows?"

"Easter?"

Do we have new races to join, or have I missed staff meetings?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, March 08, 2024 - 10:10 pm: Edit

Those were in holiday newsletters.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 09:30 am: Edit

I had random sneezing (something unusual) all day Sunday, then that night my throat started burning. I've been sick since then, did not make it to work Monday or Tuesday and today doesn't seem likely. Fever, nausea, stuffy nose, sneezing, coughing, dizziness. I could not focus enough to even read a book or coherently form a thought. I hope to make it it work tomorrow or Friday.