What is it about the wonderfully tactile nature of dice of any sort? I still have my old original D&D set from the very early 1980s, and have acquired quite a few more dice of all kinds since then. The Dollar Store here in the U.S. once stocked packs of two dozen six-sided dice eight or nine years ago, and I must have purchased 10 or 12 of them. Madness! A snowy, cold Saturday here in The Grand Duchy of Stollen, so besides the usual Tae Kwon Do -- The Young Master has an extra online clinic today, so three separate sessions for him -- and setting up my team submission folders online for my students' first collaborative projects due next Friday evening, there will be at least two skiing jaunts. While we have had The Young Master on skis since the winter of 2014-2015, he has really started to shine on skis this season and expressed considerable enthusiasm for hitting the trails with Mom and Dad once again today and tomorrow. Good man! In other new...