That Crazy Woman is Back

Did you miss me? Well, like it or not, I’m back after a month long hiatus. Where have I been? I’ve joined a quiet revolution where I ditched Microsoft Windows and installed Linux Mint on my antiquated home computer. You see the machine is too old and feeble to run Windows 11, and even though Microsoft no longer supports Windows 10, they continually screwed with my machine causing it to run slower and slower with frequent messages to upgrade to Windows 11.

I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Microsoft my entire professional career. Working for a corporation, I had to use Microsoft products. Not to give away how ancient I am, I once had a software developer tell me in the 1980s that Microsoft played dirty tricks that would have made Nixon proud.

Anyway, it has taken me about a month to install Linux and get up to speed on the operating system and the apps available for it. One of the hardest things for me to do was to track down an app that allowed Linux to communicate and sync up with my iPhone. What I needed was a way to seamlessly download photos taken on the iPhone to Linux. I couldn’t find a reliable app, so I resorted to an old tried and true manual hack, I created an online mail account and can send pictures to it and then download them onto Linux.

One thing I need to make clear is that Linux is not hard. The reason it has taken me so long is that in backing up my data to a thumb drive prior to installing Linux, I went through every file to determine if I wanted to keep it or not. We are talking decades of data files. Fourteen years of blog data alone!

Enough jabbering about how much I’m enjoying the freedom of Linux, let’s get to the point, tabletop miniature gaming.

2026 Blog Goals

In years past I’ve bounced around between different games, different periods and even different genres from Fantasy to Science Fiction and everything in between. This year is going to be a bit different. This year, I’m dedicating the entire year to the Colonial period from 1850 to 1920.

There’s going to be articles about people and places of interest during the period; how to articles on terrain building and figure painting; historical game scenarios; and an imagination campaign in the Colonial Lemuria setting.

I’m going to do my best to post something every Friday. There may be posts on other days, but the Friday post is a firm commitment.

The Napondi River Expedition

Set in Colonial Lemuria from Two Hour Wargames is a campaign to find the source of the Napondi River. News has reached the treaty port Mission St. Mary that the French trading post on the Napondi River has been destroyed and all of the inhabitants have vanished without a trace. Perplexed by the mystery, Major Thomas Bradbury, has convinced the British Lemurian Trading Company to allow him to lead an expedition to discover the source of the Napondi River. Meanwhile, the French have launched their own expedition into the area, a punitive expedition to deal with whoever destroyed the trading post.

So put on your sun helmet and join the Floozy as she learns how to play tabletop games set in the scramble for global empires.

As always, your comments, suggestions and support are greatly appreciated. Stay curious and weird until next time.

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