August 6th, 2025:

	Still here, still around.  It's been a busy six months since my 
last update, and politics notwithstanding, a lot has happened.

RPG-wise, both of our two long-running GURPS Autoduel campaigns have 
concluded.  Our Striker Courier campaign ended abruptly when Striker (the 
players' NPC employer) and her girlfriend Claire-de-Lune were killed by a 
sniper.  The PCs went their separate ways after that.  Our Autoduel/Urban 
Fantasy campaign ended when the two PCs avenged Striker and Claire, using 
magic to trick the sniper into shooting his handler, then compelling him 
to walk off the eight-storey building he was shooting from.  SPLAT!

Our RPG group is taking August off before reconvening in September.  
We're evenly divided over which campaign we'll be playing: continuing in 
Post-Apocalyptic Mongolia, picking up our Dungeon Fantasy RPG campaign, or 
starting something new.  Guess we have a month to decide, although frankly 
I'm hoping to continue on in Mongolia...

Computer-wise, I finally bit the bullet and bought an MSX Turbo R 
computer.  I've wanted one for a long time (20+ years) and one came along 
at a price I couldn't ignore.  I haven't done much with it yet (too busy 
fooling with my new Mac Mini) but am hoping to get to grips with it this 
weekend.

The Turbo R has been a bit of a headache out of the box.  My Sunrise 
CF-IDE cart didn't work (some BIOS error I'm too lazy to fix), but 
thankfully my MegaFlashRom SCC SD++ etc cart did, so I was able to use my 
apps and play most of my games (the ones that didn't need patching to run 
on the faster CPU).  I had similar issues when I bought my MSX 2+ computer 
a couple of years ago, games had to be patched etc etc so I knew what to 
expect.  I'll sort it all out at some point.  If I can't figure it out, 
there are plenty of friendly folks at msx.org who can help.

On another note, I tried tofu again for the first time in a couple of 
decades.  I had it in a breakfast scramble at one of Rachel and mine's 
haunts, and actually liked it this time.  The tofu had the consistency of 
scrambled eggs, which I liked, and wasn't mushy.  I'm going to try a 
couple more tofu dishes next time we're at that restaurant, and have added 
firm tofu to our grocery list so I can get used to cooking it myself.

'Cause ya gotta try new things.