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Rain; DST; New Games; Birthdays; Work
Apr. 3rd, 2006 10:49 amThe rain continues. Lately I've gone to sleep listening to rain, heard it if I woke up in the middle of the night, and again seen it in the morning.
40 days and nights? Nearly. All over the Bay Area cities hit records last month for days of rain and inches of precipitation. San Francisco had rain 25 out of 31 days in March, beating the old 1904 record of 23. Oakland was up somewhere around 22.
This is apparently a conjunction of Pacific weather that's sending wet oceanic weather straight at us. It's the same weather system that's been dumping water on poor Kauai, exploding dams and such.
The weather forecasts this weekend said to expect 2 more weeks of rain. Ouch.
I'm feeling somewhat fatigued this morning.
Part of it is Daylight Savings Time. Oh, how I hate you, annoying and arbitrary government regulation. Yesterday in skimming over the usual Spring scribblings about DST I found one particularly fun claim for why it's a good thing. It decreases crime because there are fewer nighttime hours.
However, I also think that I'm fighting off Kim's Nebraskan cold. Grr.
I'm been feeling a bit sad that I have fewer exciting, new games to play nowadays, unlike a year and a half ago when I started going to EndGame, and there were all these out-of-print games just waiting to be played. But then I played four brand-new games over the last four days.
Fuddy Duddy was a cute little card game that's like Gin Rummy, but lighter.
Nature of the Beast is an interesting customizable card game that we played as a four-player game. I liked some of the systems, but the game massively overstayed its welcome with four players out. I'm going to thus need to figure out how to play it with two players to find out how it actually works.
Punct, the two-player abstract that finishes off the GIPF series, was the hit of my new games. A fine, interesting two-player game despite the fact that I don't usually like abstracts. But it's going to be another hard one to get to the table.
Venturers in Argent is a downloadable adventure board game that my RPG group played and enjoyed on Saturday, but which I suspect is ultimately limited due to its lack of variability.
Of course playing brand-new games like this isn't quite the same thing as approaching a Taj Mahal or a Through the Desert for the first time, because the latter games already have a mystique, a promise of greatness, while the newer games could be good or bad, and you really don't know.
Birthday festivities are almost over. My folks & sister were up on Tuesday. Melody had cooked us a cake which Kim & I finally finished last night. The folks gave us little red envelopes with cash. I will probably spend a chunk of that money at EndGame, except I'm not sure that there are any new games just begging to be bought right now.
We'd planned a final birthday dinner with Katherine & Michael last night, but Katherine was unfortunately sick, so we delayed it.
Back to work, after a somewhat slow week last week due to taking Tuesday off, and spending much of Friday dealing with a recalcitrant machine.
40 days and nights? Nearly. All over the Bay Area cities hit records last month for days of rain and inches of precipitation. San Francisco had rain 25 out of 31 days in March, beating the old 1904 record of 23. Oakland was up somewhere around 22.
This is apparently a conjunction of Pacific weather that's sending wet oceanic weather straight at us. It's the same weather system that's been dumping water on poor Kauai, exploding dams and such.
The weather forecasts this weekend said to expect 2 more weeks of rain. Ouch.
I'm feeling somewhat fatigued this morning.
Part of it is Daylight Savings Time. Oh, how I hate you, annoying and arbitrary government regulation. Yesterday in skimming over the usual Spring scribblings about DST I found one particularly fun claim for why it's a good thing. It decreases crime because there are fewer nighttime hours.
However, I also think that I'm fighting off Kim's Nebraskan cold. Grr.
I'm been feeling a bit sad that I have fewer exciting, new games to play nowadays, unlike a year and a half ago when I started going to EndGame, and there were all these out-of-print games just waiting to be played. But then I played four brand-new games over the last four days.
Fuddy Duddy was a cute little card game that's like Gin Rummy, but lighter.
Nature of the Beast is an interesting customizable card game that we played as a four-player game. I liked some of the systems, but the game massively overstayed its welcome with four players out. I'm going to thus need to figure out how to play it with two players to find out how it actually works.
Punct, the two-player abstract that finishes off the GIPF series, was the hit of my new games. A fine, interesting two-player game despite the fact that I don't usually like abstracts. But it's going to be another hard one to get to the table.
Venturers in Argent is a downloadable adventure board game that my RPG group played and enjoyed on Saturday, but which I suspect is ultimately limited due to its lack of variability.
Of course playing brand-new games like this isn't quite the same thing as approaching a Taj Mahal or a Through the Desert for the first time, because the latter games already have a mystique, a promise of greatness, while the newer games could be good or bad, and you really don't know.
Birthday festivities are almost over. My folks & sister were up on Tuesday. Melody had cooked us a cake which Kim & I finally finished last night. The folks gave us little red envelopes with cash. I will probably spend a chunk of that money at EndGame, except I'm not sure that there are any new games just begging to be bought right now.
We'd planned a final birthday dinner with Katherine & Michael last night, but Katherine was unfortunately sick, so we delayed it.
Back to work, after a somewhat slow week last week due to taking Tuesday off, and spending much of Friday dealing with a recalcitrant machine.