I generally don't do this, but this is a cool game that has been demo'ed at #PAXWest a few times, and finally it's released its Kickstarter campaign:

CONGRESS THE BOARD GAME

I've played it in the beta period and it has some wild twists and turns.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/399770852/congress-the-board-game

New post at http://stephenmatlock.com : Stop Normalizing Republicans—the Party Is Over http://bit.ly/2NKG0iq

Y’all need to stop giving a pass to Republicans because you want to believe some are good...

Query: Need to set up a cheap method to store/play sound effects for a stage play. Tried an MP3 player, tried a laptop w/ iTunes, but it's too much UI to deal with. Need something that I can push a button or key and get the sound to play through a connection to a mixer/amplifier/sound system. Ideas?

Smoke is bad here (unhealthful for sensitive groups), but far worse in Eastern Washington--unhealthful to hazardous. The weather/satellite maps show the smoke is circling out into the Pacific and streaming all the way to the East Coast. https://hwp-viz.gsd.esrl.noaa.gov/smoke/index.html#

#amgardening Picked up an Echeveria runyonii ("Topsy Turvy") and Lithops salicola ("Living Stones"). Have wanted both for a while. Spent a long time looking for rough sand, but didn't find any. Will use some aquarium gravel for the lithops and just not water.

#amgardening Smoke here isn't too bad--BC fires are still burning, but PNW has had a few days of respite. Weather's turning again, and the smoke is returning. Look for unhealthful to unhealthy air through Wednesday. :( Try to avoid working/exercising outside when it's like this.

Summer didn't use to be like this. Now August-September are smokey, chokey days.

#amwriting Finished the edits for a short story (written by a friend). Editing is quite different than writing (duh!), and I find that it takes something out of me, where writing energizes me.

This is a #succulent I "rescued" a few months ago. It was just two bare stems. One had two leaves at the top, but they fell off when I got the plant home. I repotted it and left it alone in the sun.

It's rebounded quite a bit. I think it's a type of jade plant, but still don't have enough of the leaves out to really tell. https://counter.social/media/3N1VmKCZe3eMKfF3p7s