There's been some changes to this blog recently. . .

and it's not the flood of posts on Mad King Donny, although there's been a lot of those.

One things that we reorganized the layout considerably. The reason is that our old layout caused there to be a pile of dead space on the blog, which looked bad.  I don't know that things look great now, quite frankly, as we eliminated out Twitter link in to try to solve another problem, and I can't figure out how to add it back.

There's a way to do it, but I don't know what it is.  I'll have to figure that back out.

There's a few new pages that are now up and running, some which were in the draft stage for a long time.  Here they are:

• They were (or are) Orthodox.

This was added as its the "other lung" of the Church, as it is, and we already had a similar one for Catholics.

• The Art of Beverage, and other things, Containers

This is one that we had in the draft stage for a very long time.  Years, in fact.  We finally put it up.

Here's an odd one:

• M65 Field Jackets in the wild.

That was put up, well just because.  We like M65 field jackets.

And finally this:

• An Agrarian Manifesto

That was put up a while back, but we didn't note it at the time.  

A list of War Game Blogs has been listed.

We really haven't played any hex and counter war games since my son grew up and left home, but I remain interested in them. They're something I took up in junior high, right about the time that I quit building models, of which I'd built thousands. The models were largely a casualty of my adult years. When I "put away childish things", I threw most of them away. You can't keep everything.  But I kept the war games.  They're almost like books to me, in a way.  An intellectual distraction.  

But I didn't play them, really, after I graduated from high school until I could play them with my son.  Now, they're mostly gather dust.

I have plenty of others hobbies. . . theoretically.  In reality, now in my early 60s, I'm working as much as I did in my early 30s, which probably isn't good.  War Games, and books, are one of the things I've never lost a fondness for and wish I could devote more time to.

Which says nothing about my other vocation, avocations, and hobbies, none of which I get to devote as much time to as I'd like.

I need to. The state of the world right now is grim, and they provide a distraction.