Friday, March 8, 2024

What is posted on King Manor’s fourth floor bulletin board for March 8, 2024?


Similar to February, old posters have disappeared, while new posters have taken their place.


Did you find the 2 ponies on a calendar poster?


I see and hear the construction of a city parking ramp next to East First Street.


Located within Duluth’s Medical District, this construction site is across the street from my apartment.


Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Message inside a box


I found this box on the street corner of West Third Street and North Third Avenue West.  I do believe that someone wrote down a license plate number and a bumper sticker that reads:  “I love raw milk”.  I will never know who wrote this message, when it was written, and why this message was written.


Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Today, I voted


By reading my blog and published newspaper articles, you already know which political candidate who is nicknamed, "Amtrak Joe" I voted for and will again this November.


Saturday, March 2, 2024

What I found at the Superior Street construction site.


The first is a Voyager Lakewalk Inn sign.  That sign is still there, despite the fact that the Voyager Lakewalk Inn has been gone for years.

 

The second is a mystery sign that I don’t know what it was advertising for.


Sharp Dragon’s teeth crafted into D&D tools and weapons

Shafted and polished axe found in the Sigerslev Bog near Præstø.  This axe is exhibited in the exhibition about Danish Prehistory.

Our Stone Age ancestors used bones and rocks like volcanic glass, known as obsidian, to craft tools and weapons.  Such weapons are hand-crafted axe, arrowhead, and spear blades, as well as knife and macuahuitl blades.  Mesoamerican macuahuitl is a weapon, which is a wooden club embedded with several embedded obsidian blades on 2 sides, like a double-edged sword.  While made of wood, stone or Dragon’s Teeth, those are weapons that could be used by wizards.


Imagine using magical Dragon’s Teeth, and the teeth of other types of monsters, as cutting blades for D&D tools and weapons.  For combat, Dragon’s Teeth blades are considered magical weapons.  Thus, those blades become an inexpensive way to equip magical weapons to henchmen and hirelings.  During my past campaigns as a player, I remember several times when my party’s henchmen and hirelings, as well as player characters, fled or died in combat, because they didn’t have magical weapons to fight monsters that can only take damage by magical weapons.


The peaceful way to obtain sharp dragon’s teeth happens when dragons grow new teeth while pushing out their old teeth from their jaws in each stage of their lives.  The violent way is to take them from dead dragons.  Dragons selling their old teeth could create a new source of tools and weapons for the party, to be used by them or sold to NPCs.


Friday, March 1, 2024

Locomotive Number 7, Under Wraps


I saw this locomotive in the Lake Superior Railroad Museum.  A visiting man, upon seeing this locomotive said out loud, “I’ve never before seen a locomotive wear a body condom.”



I wonder how the Depot workers wrapped this locomotive with a plastic wrapper.