Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[flowerbug]

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There was a concerning uptick back in the early 2000s when it was becoming common for doctors to promote unneeded C sections. Both infant and mother mortality rose in the US. The US actually has the worst infant life expectancy of a developed country.

i don't consider the USoA as developed as it now looks to be degenerating and in terms of health care we're rather poor at it (we spend a lot more for poorer quality and not the best results).

 

[FarmerJamie]

We played everything. About 12 of us. Most were Navy or ex-Navy. Same group for about 15 years. Haven't found a group we like here. Old 2nd ed AD&D, Gurps, Heros, Traveller, Shadowrun, Mechwarrior, Palladium. Sometimes we'd mix it up and play Battletech or Seakrieg. Random other games sometimes like Munchkin or Chrononauts.

I was banned from playing some of the board and card games with some of the others at the gaming store because most have rules where you can make everyone lose and I absolutely will go for that. They learned the hard way and too many got upset because I was good at it. Our main group knew how I played and knew the rules just as well as I did so we did great.

Some of the guys were huge WW 1 & 2 history buffs. I actually prefer pre-history, but do like most history. Wanted to be an archeologist but there's not really much jobs there, so I went aircraft structural mechanic. Very much a nerd and had posters of jets and Airwolf on the wall along with the unicorns as a kid.

How cool! In the 70s, I just had my best friend and we did the SPI, Avalon Hill games. Dabbled in D&D, but it wasn't great with just us (tried to get other friends interested, but no luck). Most of the gaming stores around here are card based.

We went to Origins 82 and had a blast. We had a session with the designer of "Behind Enemy Lines", a WWII RPG. Bought a copy, haven't touched it since 83.

Planning to drive to Minnesota this summer and stopping at a vintage game store near Madison WI to unload my stash. Son doesn't want many of the games and I just can't bear to simply toss them

 

[FarmerJamie]

More rain inbound today.