While things are slow....
JA--So I guess you are no longer that niece's favorite uncle....
I almost got smashed on a busy Houston street this week myself. A woman in a beetle decided to change lanes without checking to see if it was clear. I just managed to switch to an empty lane before she hit me--never knew my reflexes would save me at my age....
On a gaming issue for discussion:
From time to time, my daughters write fan fiction on-line. It's usually Yu-gi-oh or Warriors (the cat books by Erin Hunter), vampire romance (teenagers!), etc. What surprised me was that they also participate in role-playing in the same worlds. It's FRP PBP with no random actions (no dice) and no moderators, so it's more like cooperative 1st-person fan fiction than FRP. There are fights and deaths, love and romance, pretty much everything (usually age-appropriate). The one problem is that without moderators, the stories are always driven by the whims of the most dominant obnoxious person posting. This has led one daughter to start reading posts on ENworld to see what our FRP is like. I'm not ready to let her post here yet, although she probably has a user name already. Does anyone else have any experience with this fan fiction RP?