Looks like Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition is coming; there's an GenCon event at 6:30 p.m., Aug. 167 in the Sagamore Ballroom. In the meantime, the Dungeons & Dragons home page is a countdown clock labeled "4Dventure". I was at the 3.0 announcement in 1999, and that makes me want to go to this event ... but not enough to blow off my Godlike event.

Sue dropped me off in Indianapolis at 1 p.m. after deftly navigating around "Janitors for Justice" protest just next to the Indy Hilton. They were protesting someone -- not exactly sure who -- for higher wages and healthcare benefits. After meeting up with fellow Blackrazors Cory and George, we checked into our rooms, hauling my cache of food to the ninth floor and then waiting for the rest of our group to show up.

When they arrived -- Erilar, Jon and Nate -- we headed over to the convention center to pick up our swag bags -- all of us had our badges mailed to us earlier -- and then Nate and I began the 45 minute long dance of doom that was customer service at GenCon.