My Timing is Always Terrible

[jeriendhal]

Last May I caved, with my wife's encouragement, and invested $150 into SJGame's Ogre Kickstarter Project which gave me the game and a metric buttload of extras, including the game itself, a bunch of exclusive counters, PDF's of the original Ogre Miniatures, a copy of the revised pocket edition, a huge canvas bag to carry the box around it (final weight of the damned thing is over 20 pounds!), ect. It was my Father's Day/Christmas present to myself (since the game itself won't ship until December at the earliest).

The next day the company I work for announced mandatory furlough days totaling nine through the summer, wiping out almost $800 of pay I couldn't afford to lose..

Now the exclusive counter sheets that high-level sponsors of Ogre Kickstarter have made in concert with SJGames are starting to become available for purchase, beginning with Fire Mountain Game's offering Nightfall for just $20, and the Nihon AMerican Empire sheets from a different company for $7 a pop. Cheap purchases.

I saw them today.

Today I also got a $125 speeding ticket in the mail from a D.C. automated traffic camera (61 in a 50mph zone).

Headdesk.