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I followed a link from TMP this morning and was shocked and dismayed by the article it led me to. The government shutdown has closed an obscure agency that approves new breweries, recipes and labels, which could create huge delays throughout the rapidly growing craft beer industry.
Its time to write congress and demand they give us new beer!
New Beer Shut Down
If you haven't at least taken a look at this new Kickstarter from Reaper you must be hiding under a rock or your internet connection has been down. Now approaching 1.5 million dollars with 17 days to go, its moving along a very steady pace. One of the controversies has been around Reaper's decision to charge ROW (Rest of the World) backers actual shipping charges. Everything up to this point has been only an estimate but today Kit unleashed his newly updated "Pledge Calculator". With this handy little device you can choose your options and determine what the shipping charge is likely to be. It also ties in directly with Kickstarter so you can actually update your pledge directly from the calculator and when the Bones II ends it will become the Pledge Manager so you won't have to do much but confirm your choices when its all said and done. I imagine it also will be giving Reaper a big heads up right up front on what kind of production numbers they will need for each piece. Pretty clever folks over there. So go take a look and decide if this is the Kickstarter for you. Oh, the piece count is not as high as it was for Bones I but the miniatures in the core seat are significantly larger, so no big swarms of tiny little kobolds and goblins, this time you get the big stuff.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1513061270/reaper-miniatures-bones-ii-the-return-of-mr-bones
Things seem to really have accelerated on my blog and I'm not exactly sure why. My daily hits went up to over 200 and I had 8,000+ total hits for September. I'm certainly glad that people are finding my blog useful which was kind of the whole point to starting it in the beginning. It also means that its worth continuing on with it. I'm kind of dazzled by the 100,000 mark achieving it in 21 months. I thought I would never get to it. Of course its no great shakes when you see the hits that Anne, Ray and Fran manage to pull in on a daily basis. Still I'm pretty happy with it! Now to get some projects finished!
And some pictures (okay a lot of pictures) from prior postings. Remember - Pictures are like Bacon for Blogs (and you can use that I'm pretty sure I said it first!).
