I don't take many trips down memory lane these days, but I am going through my oldest work with a vengeance, keeping what can be kept, pitching what can be pitched, and converting to computer files what can be converted. One such set of works is the five year run of my club's magazine, Ubergott, which I editted and wrote from 1975 to 1979. The magazines were strictly low budget. I am amazed at what I was able to accomplish with no computer, no net, no typeset, and little more than a packet full of Letraset and xerography. It started as a club newsletter for the Hawk Wargame Club, and grew into a sometimes impressive collection of monthly articles ranging from gaming analysis to bona fide research on historical battles. Most months it was a struggle to get it out on time, but a single look back tells me it was worth it. There were about five rotating contributors, without whom it never would have happened, but all the designing, departmentalizing, and proofing came from me. And I put it out while I was getting married and going to night school. John and I turned out to be the only illustrators, except for some internal illos by Ken. I eventually pursuaded the club that the issues could not be maintained monthly, then bimonthly, and I finally ran two final annuals. The issue taught me a lot about what I really wanted to do, which was not be a journalist, and not type for a living, but it also made me realize that I had something to say long before blog sites and twitter. Contact me if you are interested in the life story of this amateur zine. Brian