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Auction / Action Week
Apr. 24th, 2014 11:40 pmLast Saturday was the Endgame auction, and as has been the case in recent years, I went there with the intention of staying an hour or two, seeing some friends, bidding on a few games, and not buying anything. I was successful in all these endeavors. But, man the auction was crowded this year! I arrived a half-hour early and it was standing room only! Next year it's gotta be get-there-at-opening or not-bother, I guess.
I seriously bid on Phoenicia and Seasons, but got neither. I was within a dollar or two of Phoenicia and might have stayed in if I'd realized it was out-of-print. Seasons was more of a whim.
During the auction I was super impressed by how good Aaron has gotten at the whole thing, managing the bids masterfully, knowing when to quickly jump, when not to, and when to move forward to include a more expensive game in the set of things being sold.
I sold 20 things (or really, sold 17 things, with the others being unpurchased), and got $161 in credit. On Wednesday I turned most that around into Tourney, new ships for Galaxy Trucker, and some new Stephen Feld game. Yay for less games in my house and yay for some fun new ones in my collection!
This last week I've been pretty obsessed with building a new fleet of machines for Skotos (or rather, building enough to test out all of our main platforms and make sure they work well). It's really intensive, puzzling work, and it's been a nice change of pace. I also like the fact that I'm building our machines from the ground up, so I should have a really good understanding of them, which has never been the case before.
The downside is that I've often ended the work day trying to figure out a problem, and thus I've returned again and again to it in the evening (usually figuring it out before I go to bed, but at the cost of much of my evening).
Unsurprisingly, the rest of my work has not been going as well. This was the week that I was going to get way ahead on various board game projects and my WotC writing, so that I could then have the time to finish up some dangling loose ends on Designers & Dragons ... and I didn't manage that.
And the next couple of days will be busy, as Friday nights are always busy, especially when I'm running a game the next day, and on Saturday I'm running a game.
Maybe next week will be the week I really get ahead ..
I seriously bid on Phoenicia and Seasons, but got neither. I was within a dollar or two of Phoenicia and might have stayed in if I'd realized it was out-of-print. Seasons was more of a whim.
During the auction I was super impressed by how good Aaron has gotten at the whole thing, managing the bids masterfully, knowing when to quickly jump, when not to, and when to move forward to include a more expensive game in the set of things being sold.
I sold 20 things (or really, sold 17 things, with the others being unpurchased), and got $161 in credit. On Wednesday I turned most that around into Tourney, new ships for Galaxy Trucker, and some new Stephen Feld game. Yay for less games in my house and yay for some fun new ones in my collection!
This last week I've been pretty obsessed with building a new fleet of machines for Skotos (or rather, building enough to test out all of our main platforms and make sure they work well). It's really intensive, puzzling work, and it's been a nice change of pace. I also like the fact that I'm building our machines from the ground up, so I should have a really good understanding of them, which has never been the case before.
The downside is that I've often ended the work day trying to figure out a problem, and thus I've returned again and again to it in the evening (usually figuring it out before I go to bed, but at the cost of much of my evening).
Unsurprisingly, the rest of my work has not been going as well. This was the week that I was going to get way ahead on various board game projects and my WotC writing, so that I could then have the time to finish up some dangling loose ends on Designers & Dragons ... and I didn't manage that.
And the next couple of days will be busy, as Friday nights are always busy, especially when I'm running a game the next day, and on Saturday I'm running a game.
Maybe next week will be the week I really get ahead ..