Sci Fi original D&D movie

I saw the previews for Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God, and it certainly looks much better then the movie released in the theaters.

Success!

I was contacted by somebody at ACD distributors and he actually did what he said he was going to do. I received their catalog and account paper work today so I should be able to order product from them in very short order. I also might have a solution for the "store front" issue with Alliance. It involves the the company that I'm working for part time to make a little cash, Elite Casino Productions. I will be sending out an emal notice after I have talked to my rep at ACD to let ever gamer I know that they need to buy from since I'm that local game store now. The rep, Matt, seemed really cool. When he called me to get my company info, I talked to him for about 40 or 45 minutes. Only about half the time was it really business releated. he told me about some new stuff that a few of the smaller companies are coming out with. We discussed the pros and cons of having GenCon in your backyard, they are in Madison, WI. He also told me why Alliance would not, I strongly suspect, do business with me. WotC does not allow their distibutors to sell WotC stuff to anybody that doesn't do a minimum of 75% of their business in a store front. Alliance just doesn't bother if you don't have the store front where ACD can still sell me stuff from dozens of other companies.

Let it rain! Let it rain! Let it rain!

Go Rita! Go Rita! Go Rita!

A little snag

It seems that Alliance the company I've been trying to talk to only works with companiesn that have store fronts. They want a copy of the lease to show that it actually exists. So I am now going to back up plan B whick is a company called ACD distributors. I've contacted them and "somebody should contact you within a day or two" so we shall see. Of course I suppose I could just get an actual store front and go from there but the overhead of an online business is just so low to start and i don't have much capitol to put into merchandice, marketing etc. On the up side I will have a CafePress store up and going early next week. More info on that later.

It's getting closer

I've finally finished all my various state and federal paper work. The game distributor I contacted has been very slow getting back to me. After two calls to them this week and very little feedback I'm about ready to go to the next one on my list. They have a distribution warehouse in Ft. Wayne and can get almost anything I want to me next day with ease. That is the only reason I'm putting up with this hassle. I talked to a guy that does business with the and he told me once you get past the intro part the service gets much better. I just need to get to that point with them.

Let the finger pointing begin!

That's right it already has started. While Republicans are blaming the mayor of New Orleans and the Gov. of Louisianna, the Democrats are doing the same to Bush and FEMA. First things first. There is, IMHO, plenty of blame for all of those in charge at every level. I must say atleast Bush did declare it a state of emergency several days in advance of the storm but I was furious when I saw him say that the director of FEMA was doing a great job. It seems to me that almost everybody was to busy trying to look like they were doing the right thing instead of actually doing them. Nearly 4 years after the attacks of Sept. 11th and this is the best that we can muster. I've heard reports that Emergency Responders from different states still can't communicate with each other. The ability for somebody, anybody to take command and get the situation headed in right direction is still non-existent. "Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it." I think we just repeated several grades in school. It's really a shame we didn't learn anything from the last several centuries.

Time Gnomes

Those little bastards have stolen the last two weeks from me. I've been dealing with the state and federal tax ID number paper work among other things which has drained the life from me. I've also been watching my daughter Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings until about noon for the last few weeks. I still can't believe the scale of what happened with Katrina, it just boggles my mind.