I have come across these videos from two different sources. They are cases on not talking to the police.
Now, I don’t mean if you are reporting a crime, or you are a witness to a crime, but if the police come to you and start asking questions, your first inclination should be to shut the hell up and stay quiet.
These videos are about 45 minutes of your time, but they are very well spent time. I know the lawyer speaks kind of fast, but he has a lot of information.

Here is a video from the police officer who followed him.

When I had my CCW, and I ever had to shoot somebody, the one thing I was taught to say was “I defended myself.” After watching this video, I am now of the mind that you shouldn’t even say that.
Take these videos to heart. Or else.

You see, I have a problem with this program, it won’t publish my entry unless I manually publish it. This is something that I should not have to do. I went and repaired the MySQL database, just to see if that makes a difference. Hitting the publish button in 3…2…1…
10 Second update: No, that did not work. It looks like I will have to back up the Zone, then destroy and do a new install of Moveable Type. If that doesn’t fix my problem, and the support forums can’t do it, then I might have to move on to a new software. I’ll do it on some Sunday when I have a lot of time, like when a Football game is on.

I finally found out the final standings for The Big Waaagh Warhammer 40k GT. Like I thought, I was in the middle somewhere. I ended up in 45th place out of 82, with 44 battle points out of possible 100, 45 Sportsman out of 50, 12 out of 20 for painting and a total of 101 points out of a possible 170.
I wish I could have done better, but I did the best that I could do, and that is all anybody can ask. I’ll be back next year and looking to do better. Maybe my Sisters will make a higher mark.

Thanks to a friend and his son, after a 16 year hiatus, I have gotten back into Battletech. The thing about it, is because of Mechwarrior:Dark Age happening in the same universe, Battletech is now known as Classic Battletech. Yes, even after all this time, the universe for this game is still alive and well. In fact, in the Northeast, I am told that CBT is very active in the game stores.
Now that I have started to play again, I have dusted off the remains of my battalion and got back into the fray. I had a full battalion, which was a total of 40 battlemechs, including the battalion commander and his command lance. That’s three companies, each consisting of three lances, each lance has four battlemechs. I had a company of light battlemechs, a company of medium battlemechs, and a company of heavy and assault battlemechs. Two lances of the light company survived, one lance of the mediums and (thankfully) the full company of the heavy and assault battlemechs. I only found two of the four command lance ‘mechs.
When I bought and painted them in 1991, I had them painted in a variety of patterns, to denote lances that would fight in arctic conditions, forests, and city. Now, I have decoded that I am going to paint them to one standard, as it is easy to pick out a 40 foot tall battlemech in most conditions. Guess what base color I have decided to paint them? If you guessed Ultramarine Blue, you’ve been reading this blog for a long time.
Here’s a picture of a Warhammer in the forest paint job, and then in just base coated in Ultramarine Blue. Click on them for full pictures:

As you can see, this guy is bristling with weapons. The arms are Particle Projector Cannons, he has medium lasers in his torso and that thing sticking out in the top left is a Short Range Missile system that fires six missiles at a time in a salvo.
Now here’s the interesting part. You see, when Battletech first appeared, Battletech maker FASA “borrowed” designs from the old Harmony Gold Anime called Macross. There were also designs “borrowed” from another cartoon called Exo-Squad. Well, lawsuits were thrown about, and in the end, all of the borrowed designs became “unseen” and went away. Thankfully, a lot of them were redesigned and became the “reseen” and so carry on the tradition.
This in the end means all of the unseen battlemechs I own have become very valuable over the years. People are paying a lot of money to buy battlemechs like what I have, even more when they are in the original packaging. I’m sitting on several hundred dollars of little lead miniatures that a lot of people want to buy. But I’m not going to give any of them up, simply because I want to keep them and perhaps pass them down to my son, because he has interest in CBT as well.
I’ll post as I get more of these ‘mechs detail painted.