book recommendation

I recently finished reading War Day by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka (Amazon link). This is one of the classics of post-apocalypse writing, originally published in 1984 I expected it to be kind of dated, but one of my co-workers recommended it highly. Reading it I was very impressed. It's a novel written in a documentary style, describing what life is like in the U.S. after a limited nuclear war. The realism it manages to convey is excellent, it contains a wealth of technical detail, while also making the impact of the war very personal on a human level. Not nearly as dated as I was afraid it would be, inded with current events it seems very timely, if somewhat depressing. Anyway, I definitely recommend it - and for anyone running post-apocalypse RPGs I'd consider it a must read.

weekend plans

This Friday I'll be gaming at GCOM-Middletown. GCOM also has games going on in Fairfax, Silver Spring, Rockville, and Reisterstown the same day and speaking of gaming, we're only a month away from GCOM Game Days - one of the best small gaming conventions in our area.

Most of Saturday will be spent helping a friend clean out their house. In the evening plan on heading out to Silver Spring's newest Irish pub - kindly pointed out by young_egotist, watch the GMU game (go Patriots!), and see Scythian play - if you want to hear some awesome Celtic rock come and join us.

Sunday will by working on my own house and maybe going out to see random221b in The Man Who Came to Dinner in Alexandria. Somewhere in there I'd like to find time to finally see V for Vendetta as well.

Also since geekchick reminded me: Tempest at Jammin' Java next Wednesday.