A few weeks ago, I posted my Reading List for 2008. I have been reading since Christmas and have made some progress on my reading list. So as a way to get back on the writing wagon, I thought I would update you on how my reading list is coming along. So here are the books that I have read so far….

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For the few of you who are subscribed to this blog, you may have noticed that posting has been pretty low over the holiday’s and non-existent the past week or more. There has been good reason for this. And her name is Rose…

Meet Rose Marie. Born last Friday, at 4:01pm. She is doing great and my Wife is doing great. Everyone is home, and so we are now all adapting to our newest edition. I am on a gaming hiatus for the next few weeks as we get use to Rose and get her part of the routine of the house, and adapt the routine of the house to her.

Blog posts are going to be slow for the next week or so, while we all adapt to Rose. In addition, my lovely wife is also my Editor, so my posts for the next few weeks are not going to be quite as articulate, and are likely to be overloaded in commas, as well. So please keep your subscriptions to the site active, I promise that we will be fully up and running in the next few weeks.

In the meantime, I will put out some smaller posts and some linking posts to other articles that have caught my eye while reviewing my own subscriptions.

So you have spent months tweaking your GTD system, getting it set up just the way you want it. Then one day, you wake up to find out your system has been: lost, hacked, crashed, stolen… Now what?

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A week ago, the gaming community received word that game designer Erick Wujcik was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is dying. I sat in front of my computer kind of numb when I heard the news. As it sank in, I came to realize that Erick’s work has had a large impact in my gaming life, and that I wanted to dedicate a post to thank him for what he has done for me as a gamer and how my own gaming style was forever changed….

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A few weeks ago, I wrote a letter to my past self, giving him some advice, about GMing… what I know now that I did not know then. To make things fair, I figured that my past self should have the opportunity to write a letter back to remind me of some of the good things that I did as a GM then that I should be doing now.

And here is the letter that came back….

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Over the past few weeks we have looked at how to step into the Getting Things Done methodology by using a stripped down system that emphasizes the essence of GTD. In this last article, we look at an often overlooked aspect of the GTD system called the Weekly Review. The Weekly Review is a technique that is used to align priorities and keep your system running with the highest productivity. It is one of the most powerful techniques in the GTD methodology and once you incorporate it into your system, you will see benefits right away. So let’s get into discussing the Weekly Review…

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