Making Unique Painting Choices with your Miniatures
I’ve been painting up a cadre of lizardfolk for my players to encounter soon. When I first unpacked the miniatures, I thought to myself, Lizards are green, right? So I chose one of the minis with the simplest equipment and …
Musings: What Valheim and Jigsaw Puzzles have in common
My wife and I enjoy the occasional jigsaw puzzle.
We’re not aficionados, but we have a few puzzle options stacked in the closet at any given point in time. It’s a nice cooperative activity; no one loses; and there’s …
How Pokemon gets me thinking about numeracy
If you talk to me long enough, you will have heard me talk about numeracy – literacy for numbers, as it were. Numeracy is often something you learn while you are learning something else – math, more obviously. And while …
What is that strange face-shield/mask combo? The Badger Shield+
Good evening, everyone.
I get questions about the strange-looking face-shield/mask combo I’ve been wearing since March (often from teachers or those who have teachers in their life). A number of you reached out to me recently after seeing it when …
Testing positive
tl;dr:
Today is Wednesday, 23 September 2020. I have received a positive COVID-19 test result. If you were at the Mayfair store on Friday late afternoon (~4pm-7pm), you may have been exposed.
I am the second back-of-house Barrister to test …
Farewell, Oak & Shield
TL;DR: our Oak & Shield Gaming Pub has closed. Our Board Game Barrister locations at Mayfair Mall, North Shore, and South Milwaukee remain open.
All adventurers know in the back of their mind that their adventures will come to an …
Building Skills by Building Things
I want to talk about learning by building.
Let’s start here:
I built a birdhouse.
Over the course of the past year, I’ve been steadily taking more of an interest in woodworking. I suppose that’s a bit of an understatement. …
Must be present to win – we’re reopening: why now?
Good evening, everyone.
Way back in May, when our governmental leaders were ignoring the advice of public health scientists and issuing a conflicting cluster of recommendations (and the occasional regulation) on how to reopen businesses and the economy, I realized …
John Ernst Cafe
Farewell, Greenfield
On the ranking of things I get to write, this one ranks at the bottom of the scale. I’ve been putting it off for a week or so, “waiting for more information” I’ve been telling myself, but it is time.…