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Games, Chairs, Charts, etc.
Aug. 2nd, 2004 12:43 pmGames
Saturday was, as usual, gaming day. Ever since gaming left my house it's been split, with about half the games at Kevin's house down in Union City and about half at Donald's apartment in Berkeley.
I typically haven't made the games at Kevin's house because: I've been sick on and off since we started gaming there, and heading down to the south side of the Bay when you're feeling sick isnt fun; it's a pain to cadge rides because Donald is the only gamer still living in Berkeley and he's often running quite late and also stays much later than I want (though Dave P. and Eric have been great about offering me rides lately, even though it's way out of their way); and I'm sometimes feeling sick in the morning. Nonetheless I've managed to make 5 or 6 games in a row down at Kevin's house now, partially because Eric was running pivotal Erzo episodes, but also partially because I've been doing a teeny bit better.
After attending 5 or 6 in a row, I started realizing, gee whiz, we're down at Kevin's a lot, and thus asked if we were going to be playing at Donald's again come August. No one knew but Kevin, who's become the schedule-meister. "I thought we'd generally stay down here," Kevin said, "Because David S. is more likely to play" (because David S. works Saturday nights, and Kevin's place is between his boat and his work.)
"Well, I'm considerably less likely too, I said." And thus gaming is back at Donald's this August.
I might not have pushed my own agenda if Dave were actually there to play, but he usually shows up at 6pm or so, just when we're winding down, and tends to be disruptive since he's just arriving (and we won't even talk about last week when he brought both wife and child to all of gaming, much to my frustration).
(In other good gaming news, I should have a copy of Princes of Florence coming in the mail, a game I liked but didn't love, in exchange for a copy of Gandland! which I sent out, a game I hated.)
Chairs
My original set of dining room chairs (which my mom & step-dad bought, probably 20 or more years ago) is finally giving up their ghosts. They're comfy, relatively nice chairs but they're held together by wooden pegs and wood glue, and that's slowly been coming apart, to the point where most of the remaining chairs are teetering on the edge. (At one point I tried to use some nails and screws to secure them better but the wood is damned hard, and so that hasn't really worked. If I re-woodglued them all I might get some additional life, but, hey, they're 20+ years old.)
Thus, K. and I spent a hour and half on Sunday looking at local stores for new chairs. We didn't have much luck, but that's mostly because we're on a very limited budget. Some things at Scandinavian Design would have worked, but were probably twice as much as we could reasonably afford right now. We're going to look back through the Ikea website, I think. There was some stuff in the right price range there which may or may not work.
Charts
Also on Sunday I did up some charts for my recently submitted massively multiplayer gems article. The topic didn't entirely lend itself to charts, but I figured out two simple diagrams then three simple tables which I hope will be sufficient to break up the text like the editor had requested.
And that was about it for the weekend. Oh, other than going to Comic Relief and buying copies of Ultimate Fantastic Four, Volume 1 (which was OK, but not super exciting, but definitely good enough to keep picking up the series) and Strangers in Paradise, Volume 14 (which was nice enough, but frustrating because it didn't advance the main storyline--in the year or year and a half since I stopped reading SiP in individual issues, at issue #59, I've only gotten to see the main storyline advanced by a single issue, thanks to a combination of delay in the trades, delay in the individual issue schedule, and the decision to do a three-issue backstory; of course this isn't as frustrating as the Lucifer comic, which I also stopped reading in single-issues a year or a year and a half ago, and will just be catching up to the place where I stopped reading with the release of the next trade paperback in the next month or two.)
Exciting, exciting.
Saturday was, as usual, gaming day. Ever since gaming left my house it's been split, with about half the games at Kevin's house down in Union City and about half at Donald's apartment in Berkeley.
I typically haven't made the games at Kevin's house because: I've been sick on and off since we started gaming there, and heading down to the south side of the Bay when you're feeling sick isnt fun; it's a pain to cadge rides because Donald is the only gamer still living in Berkeley and he's often running quite late and also stays much later than I want (though Dave P. and Eric have been great about offering me rides lately, even though it's way out of their way); and I'm sometimes feeling sick in the morning. Nonetheless I've managed to make 5 or 6 games in a row down at Kevin's house now, partially because Eric was running pivotal Erzo episodes, but also partially because I've been doing a teeny bit better.
After attending 5 or 6 in a row, I started realizing, gee whiz, we're down at Kevin's a lot, and thus asked if we were going to be playing at Donald's again come August. No one knew but Kevin, who's become the schedule-meister. "I thought we'd generally stay down here," Kevin said, "Because David S. is more likely to play" (because David S. works Saturday nights, and Kevin's place is between his boat and his work.)
"Well, I'm considerably less likely too, I said." And thus gaming is back at Donald's this August.
I might not have pushed my own agenda if Dave were actually there to play, but he usually shows up at 6pm or so, just when we're winding down, and tends to be disruptive since he's just arriving (and we won't even talk about last week when he brought both wife and child to all of gaming, much to my frustration).
(In other good gaming news, I should have a copy of Princes of Florence coming in the mail, a game I liked but didn't love, in exchange for a copy of Gandland! which I sent out, a game I hated.)
Chairs
My original set of dining room chairs (which my mom & step-dad bought, probably 20 or more years ago) is finally giving up their ghosts. They're comfy, relatively nice chairs but they're held together by wooden pegs and wood glue, and that's slowly been coming apart, to the point where most of the remaining chairs are teetering on the edge. (At one point I tried to use some nails and screws to secure them better but the wood is damned hard, and so that hasn't really worked. If I re-woodglued them all I might get some additional life, but, hey, they're 20+ years old.)
Thus, K. and I spent a hour and half on Sunday looking at local stores for new chairs. We didn't have much luck, but that's mostly because we're on a very limited budget. Some things at Scandinavian Design would have worked, but were probably twice as much as we could reasonably afford right now. We're going to look back through the Ikea website, I think. There was some stuff in the right price range there which may or may not work.
Charts
Also on Sunday I did up some charts for my recently submitted massively multiplayer gems article. The topic didn't entirely lend itself to charts, but I figured out two simple diagrams then three simple tables which I hope will be sufficient to break up the text like the editor had requested.
And that was about it for the weekend. Oh, other than going to Comic Relief and buying copies of Ultimate Fantastic Four, Volume 1 (which was OK, but not super exciting, but definitely good enough to keep picking up the series) and Strangers in Paradise, Volume 14 (which was nice enough, but frustrating because it didn't advance the main storyline--in the year or year and a half since I stopped reading SiP in individual issues, at issue #59, I've only gotten to see the main storyline advanced by a single issue, thanks to a combination of delay in the trades, delay in the individual issue schedule, and the decision to do a three-issue backstory; of course this isn't as frustrating as the Lucifer comic, which I also stopped reading in single-issues a year or a year and a half ago, and will just be catching up to the place where I stopped reading with the release of the next trade paperback in the next month or two.)
Exciting, exciting.