Ah, Texas . . . speaking of which, has anyone heard from Mark?? Do we know when he is returning to the ATL. I assume that he is going to be back for Xmas through aught 4, but I guess he could mis the whole shebang. Shame, 'cause I got him his present.

Now that Dimplomacy is back in my hands, I'm going to try to get my online dimplomacy game going. Here's the concepts behind it. Board visualization will be through the webcam that Rich isn't using (the rest of tonight will be spent getting it to work. I will also have to find a machine to run it and a place to put the board. I guess the basement is ideal, but I'm worried that we can't find the room near a computer. We'll see. Anyway, so I'll need 4 other people to play. I'm pretty sure that I got one in Ewald (froom here on a.k.a. Goat or Goatboy). Dan might be interested but is notoriously flakely. I assume Jeremy is in. Mark is also a question(bad pun). Matt, are you interested? Have you ever played Diplomacy before?? mikex0r would probably be in. LPS, maybe. Brad? Bruckner?? Jeez, there are a lot of people who might be interested. Regardless unless I get the webcam up and working it won't matter. I think Rich has a page I can upload the picture to if not I might need to find another place, and since phatmatt.com doesn't seem to be working that isn't an option. Orders are dues once a week by midnight on a sunday, although that might hurt the ultimate players a bit. Life can be hard. So we'll see if that gets working. I really should stop picking up side projects since I will be employed soon and won't have as much free time. Later.

M