Home of the Soul Cookie

Wow, slack! I’ve gone a bit too long in updating this (though I have been working on a Blogger-powered site for my Shadow Crusade Rolemaster game).

Here’s what’s been going on:

Got busted big-time by The Man on Monday.

Drove up to L.A. on Monday (Memorial Day) with Jason to attend an auction on the final day of a game con up there. About 40 minutes into the trip, I get pulled over because I have an expired registration on my car. That I knew about. That sucked, but it got worse.

It turns out that my driver’s license had expired (didn’t know about that - shit!) and that, when I had cleaned out my wallet that morning I had inadvertently taken out my insurance information.

“License, registration, and proof of insurance?” Zero for friggin’ three.

So the cop said that he wouldn’t seize my car (how nice of him), but that Jason would have to drive the rest of the trip. Now bear this in mind: I like driving. Jason, generally, doesn’t. And we still had about 7 hours’ worth of driving ahead of us (there and back). In fact, part of the reason for my going was so that Jason wouldn’t have to drive.

Cripes.

We kinda made the best of the situation, though. I latched onto the phrase “jackbooted thugs,” mostly in the context of wondering/griping aloud why I was pulled over for not having the correct sticker, but that the maniacs on the road (and, boy, were there a bunch of them on our trip) didn’t get “equal time.” It was good for laughs throughout the day. (And I have a name for the archnemesis in the new 7th Sea game - thanks Mr. CHP ossifer!)