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Found an affordable and OK-looking hotel in Santander, where there will be a minute or so of totality, and booked a room arriving on Monday 10th August and leaving on the 13th, the day after the eclipse.

Now trying to find a good flight, but as usual completely confused by the booking sites. Basically I want to leave the UK in the morning and arrive in Spain in daylight to make getting to the hotel easier. Coming back I'm not so bothered about timing. Which site would people recommend for booking the flight?

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Saw an interesting thing today for the second time: an ad on the back end of an OC Transpo bus for Hanhwa Ocean's KS-III submarines. Hanhwa Ocean is one of the firms competing for contracts to build submarines for the Canadian Navy. I'd expect to see the ads in the tunnel under MacKenzie King Bridge that connects the Rideau Centre with DND HQ. Not on a bus out in the eastern suburbs of Ottawa.

Hanhwa Ad on OC Transpo Bus - 18 Dec 2025

Current Mood: sleepy

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I found another job interesting enough to apply for. Just in case the thing I'm looking forward to falls through. I can't afford to leave it to chance, after all.

In case anyone else asks: I skipped the Vulgarian's speech tonight. I have what's left of my own mental health to think of, for one thing. For another, if anything really important comes out of that rant, I'll hear about it from multiple, reliable sources over the next day anyway.

Current Mood: busy

ffutures

...is on line here

https://forgottenfutures.co.uk/album/xmas-2025.pdf

Not sure where I found the illustration, it's on several sites.

Have a merry wotsit and a happy new thingy!

ffutures

This is a new bundle of material for Tales of the Valiant, a multiworld fantasy RPG based on the Black Flag FRPG system from
Kobold Press which is D&D 5th Edition compatible.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/TalesOfTheValiant

As I've said a few times before, I'm really not into fantasy RPGs at present, and to be honest I don't see anything about this one that seems likely to change my mind. But you do get a fair bit for your money, and it may be worth considering if it's the sort of system you want.

ffutures

Continuing my Worm / War of the Worlds crossover story.

The previous chapters are archived on these sites:
On Twisting the Hellmouth - https://www.tthfanfic.org/story.php?no=33872
On AO3 - https://archiveofourown.org/works/39112812
On Fanfiction.net - https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14083560/1/The-Martian
On Spacebattles Forum - https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-martian-worm-the-war-of-the-worlds-au.1034761/

See chapter I for disclaimers.

( IX - Blue Mars )

Now posted to archives.

ffutures

This is an offer of two bundles for Mongoose Traveller - one is a repeat, the other new (though based on a fairly old adventure).

MONGOOSE TRAVELLER EXPLORATIONS (from Nov 2022)
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2025Explorations

TRAVELLER ANCIENTS CAMPAIGN (new)
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/TravAncients

The last time Traveller Explorations was on offer I said "OK - Traveller is probably the best-loved SF system out there, and the Mongoose version is VERY popular. You're getting a ton of stuff for your money. Need I say more? Unless you really dislike SF or the setting, or already have everything here, I'd recommend buying them."

I'm less sure about the Ancients Campaign - I was never a huge fan of the original Secrets of the Ancients, the plot was a bit linear and the eventual secret really wasn't incredibly exciting, and while it looks like there are some more plot threads to keep players busy they are definitely still going to need some nudges to keep them on the right track. Not all players LIKE long campaigns, and although this is relatively cheap it might be a good idea to sound people out before buying.

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Got laundry done. Carried out some of my democratic duties as a registered member of a political party. Got shopping done. Did my weekly CPAP equipment-cleaning. Also, continuing with the star map projects and checked in with some of you, here and elsewhere.

A productive Sunday.

Current Mood: tired

ffutures

This is a new bundle of role-playing material for the introductory RPG / Story telling game Magical Kitties Save The Day from Atlas Games:

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/MagicalKitties

Atlas Games have published some very good introductory RPGs and story telling games - this one is very much in that genre, with some fun supplements for different settings and styles of play, from film noir to alien invasions. It's never been offered in these bundles before, it's cheap, and it's being run to promote a forthcoming kickstarter for a superhero rules supplement. Better buy it, or Streaky the super-cat will spit hair-balls at you at mach 5...

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A suggestion to the people currently care-taking for the Star Trek franchise, one that Larry and David Ellison may well try to prevent the heeding of: the writing teams need people who have served in military or NGO contexts, or have survived as refugees and/or dissidents.

Current Mood: busy

ffutures

This is a new bundle of independently-produced material for the popular Forged in the Dark rules-set, also including Blades in the Dark, the game that originated the system. Blades... has been in several previous bundles, the others are new.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Forge3rd

The mood of these ranges from zany comic-book comedy to gritty crime realism, heroic and not so heroic fantasy, and far-futures cyberpunks and transhumans. If you like more than one of the genres it's worth buying the whole bundle, you'll save money.

dewline

Current Mood: busy

dewline

Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.

Current Mood: Empathizing
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: The House on CBC Radio

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I just realized that I have eight or nine different star mapping projects on the go with various members of the Tranquility Press gang.

All this has been building up over the last five years, partly to cope with other stuff and partly for fun and research giggles (which have been plentiful).

More as I think it over.

Current Mood: surprised

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Preparing for the August Eclipse

Ads For Subs in the Suburbs

Job Search: Make No Assumptions

This Year's Xmas Card...

Another Fantasy Bundle - Tales of the Valiant

Fanfic: Worm/The War of the Worlds - The Martian Part IX

Two Traveller Bundles - Exploration and Ancients

Checking In - 14 Dec. 2025

Another RPG Bundle - Magical Kitties

About that "National Security Statement"?

About the Trek Writers' Rooms?

Another RPG Bundle - Forged in the Dark Bundle 3

Musical Interlude: "A Song Is a Weapon" by Stars

École Polytechnique: We Still Remember

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