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Students & Games
Aug. 20th, 2011 03:45 pmThe students are back! I largely forget what a sea change it is between summer and the rest of the year here in Berkeley, but I was reminded on the way back from Endgame on Wednesday night. I passed somewhere over a half-dozen bicyclists on my way home along Telegraph at around 10pm. In the months previous, I'd often be the only bike out on the street, but that's suddenly changed.
I was even more forceably reminded today when I went out for lunch and a visit to Moe's. Everywhere was packed. There were huge numbers of people and cars. The campus was alive again too. To a certain extent I go ugh to the increased people count, but on the bright side, when I got to Moe's there were also huge piles of new books. (Nothing I wanted though, alas.)
Besides that Wednesday Endgaming (which was an all d*building night, with two games of Ascension and one of Quarriors--probably my last game of the latter, as it's a poorly developed game that's gotten really astounding amounts of good press given its quality), I also had my Thursday review night.
No reviews this week, however, as Brody was visiting. He showed up a bit early and we got to chat and play a couple of games of Memoir '44. We then played three games of 7 Wonders, which he was excited to try out (and to continue playing afterward).
I've missed Brody in the last year, as he was one of the best and nicest gamers around. I figured he'd be swimming in games being over in Denmark now (which is much closer to Germany), but they're apparently pretty expensive over there, due to a combination of VAT, high minimum wages, and shipping costs. Ah well.
Sadly he was off again Friday morning to visit some other parts of the Americas before returning to the frozen North.
Amusingly Brody talked about enjoying the California weather while he was here. I think he got our only good week of consistently warm weather all year. As of yesterday it's cool and gray again. We had somewhere south of an hour of sun yesterday. Today it was more like two or three, but it's already gray and cool again.
Quiet weekend. It's the TellMe BBQ, so no RPGing. Instead I did the aforementioned Berkeley-trotting and things will be mostly restful other than that and groceries. Kimberly and I played The Rivals for Catan this afternoon, which I felt was a big improvement over the original Catan Card Game. Generally, I thought it was quite good. We're going to try out one of the more advanced scenarios soon ...
I was even more forceably reminded today when I went out for lunch and a visit to Moe's. Everywhere was packed. There were huge numbers of people and cars. The campus was alive again too. To a certain extent I go ugh to the increased people count, but on the bright side, when I got to Moe's there were also huge piles of new books. (Nothing I wanted though, alas.)
Besides that Wednesday Endgaming (which was an all d*building night, with two games of Ascension and one of Quarriors--probably my last game of the latter, as it's a poorly developed game that's gotten really astounding amounts of good press given its quality), I also had my Thursday review night.
No reviews this week, however, as Brody was visiting. He showed up a bit early and we got to chat and play a couple of games of Memoir '44. We then played three games of 7 Wonders, which he was excited to try out (and to continue playing afterward).
I've missed Brody in the last year, as he was one of the best and nicest gamers around. I figured he'd be swimming in games being over in Denmark now (which is much closer to Germany), but they're apparently pretty expensive over there, due to a combination of VAT, high minimum wages, and shipping costs. Ah well.
Sadly he was off again Friday morning to visit some other parts of the Americas before returning to the frozen North.
Amusingly Brody talked about enjoying the California weather while he was here. I think he got our only good week of consistently warm weather all year. As of yesterday it's cool and gray again. We had somewhere south of an hour of sun yesterday. Today it was more like two or three, but it's already gray and cool again.
Quiet weekend. It's the TellMe BBQ, so no RPGing. Instead I did the aforementioned Berkeley-trotting and things will be mostly restful other than that and groceries. Kimberly and I played The Rivals for Catan this afternoon, which I felt was a big improvement over the original Catan Card Game. Generally, I thought it was quite good. We're going to try out one of the more advanced scenarios soon ...