Dateline: above the sold garage, Portsmouth RI, 31 May 2005

Busy day, so no regular articles blog. Got up early for phone conference call with Royal Dutch/Shell people. I will participate in training seminar of two dozen of their top managers in NYC at end of June. This was the get-acquainted call.

Then rest of day spent updating regular brief, plus constructing new brief to lay out/preview BFA. I'll give the regular brief (always improved slightly from last time) to players tonight to kick off game. Tomorrow, I'll give the BFA preview brief after the first day of play is done. Other than heading the Control Team in the exercise, my secondary job in The New Map Game is evening entertainment. Ah well, keeps me thin to be talking so much during meals. . .