I missed out on gaming last week, which makes me overly eager to throw some dice tonight. We'll eschewing our normal role-playing campaigns in favor of a a round of the most excellent board game Arkham Horror, this time with the very cool-looking expansion, The King in Yellow.

We have one, maybe two role-playing sessions left before we go to GenCon, and we'll be focusing on finishing up the current leg of the Khalez-Mar campaign. Meanwhile, my Mutants & Masterminds campaign continues to simmer, and should be returning to the front burner sometime in late August or early September.

Three people were killed after an explosion during an oxidizer test at Scaled Composites this week, two yesterday when the explosion happened, one today from complications afterwards. Scaled Composites is the company that won the X-Prize for the successful sub-orbital flight of its spacecraft, SpaceShipOne. The crew had been testing engine components for SpaceShipTwo, the private craft being built for Virgin Galactic, the suborbital spaceflight arm of Virgin Atlantic.