It's time to scrap the Green's overly-restrictive "precautionary principle". Read the full story.

This edition of my semi-quarterly wish list includes a few non-RPG items for the first time, partly because there I'm there's not a lot of D&D stuff out there that I'm interested in buying, but mostly because stuff like the Return of the King Soundtrack and the Two Towers Extended DVDs are must-have additions to any DM's media library.

My daughter Jordan's is eight months old (actually, she'll be nine months next week). Her hair is slowly coming in -- she's got a few curls around the back of her head -- but we still don't have a clue if its going to be light brown or red (we're still hoping for red, since my wife Sue's a redhead). The heart condition that scared the crap out of us back when she was three months old haven't resurfaced, and we're hoping she'll be off her medication when she turns 1 year old in March. Here are bunch of other thoughts on her 8th month of life:

Mobility at Last! When Jordan first started crawling, she did so with a sort of "breaststroke style" in which she'd move forward with her arms, and then pull her legs behind her. This was followed by the inchworm approach, in which she'd move both legs simultaneously while pulling herself forward on her arms. In the last two weeks she Now though, she's using the traditional crawling style and she's realized that she's much, much faster. She can clear a room in a few seconds, now, and she loves to race away from me when I call after her (pausing to look over her shoulder before doing so). She reverts to the "breaststroke" while on hardwood floors and linoleum -- apparently that's easier than normal crawling (or at least, more fun)