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Wednesday: Hiking. I biked out to St. Mary's College. It's a well-located campus, in the crook of East Bay hills, and otherwise as nice as you could expect with unimaginative Mission-style architecture. The Old Moraga Ranch Trail runs up behind it. This was a challenging trail to plan because various maps of it disagree as to where it is. It was also a challenging trail to walk, because it has considerable up and down and up and down. I walked it from St. Mary's out to Rancho Laguna Park and back. Nice walk, pretty views, but not a trail that really goes anywhere. I was totally exhausted afterward!
Thursday: Pathfinding. We had our second all-day Pathfinder: Skull & Shackles game. I really enjoy this game, and these all-day games ensure that we can finish up Skull & Shackles before I leave for Hawaii. Three more adventures were successfully conquered!
Friday: Lazing. What does my day of lazing look like? After a lazy morning and lazy lunch, I went out to grab some packages at the UPS store (comics & games & stuff for Kimberly), then I biked up the hill to Clark Kerr, where I hiked up the hill a little more and found a bench to sit on. I read a while (The Fifth Season) and wrote some (a D&D history, of which I wrote one almost every day this holiday, only missing today). Afterward I biked out to Dark Carnival, and used a gift certificate to buy a book (Winter Tide: The Innsmouth Legacy) and was pleasantly surprised to recall what great stock Dark Carnival has. Then it was out to groceries and home, after which Kimberly and I went out to get dinner at King Dong.
Saturday: ZooLighting. Another lazing day, but around dark, Kimberly and I took a Lyft up to the Oakland Zoo. Somehow, neither of us have ever been there, despite decades of living in the Bay Area. They have a holiday festival of lights, with lots of Christmas lights wrapped around everything and animals made out of light and Christmas songs and a (mediocre) laser show. My favorite part of the trip was a gondala ride far above Oakland up into the darkness, with lights all around, both the far-away city and the nearby Zoolights. Pretty cool! We had another dinner out afterward.
Sunday: Orléansing. Some of my friends wanted a Pathfinder day and some wanted a long-game day, so I ended up hosting both (and all thanks to Kimberly who was willing to humor us). We started out with a shared luncheon, which was Eric L's suggestion, in part so that Kimberly could enjoy some tasty food. Then we played Orléans: Invasion! and lost (as usual) and then we played again and won (for my first time ever!). Woo! Good game! And I've added it to my list of played-games in my co-op design book now that it's exceeded five plays.
And that was the rest of my year-end holiday.
T-2 years until Hawaii.
Thursday: Pathfinding. We had our second all-day Pathfinder: Skull & Shackles game. I really enjoy this game, and these all-day games ensure that we can finish up Skull & Shackles before I leave for Hawaii. Three more adventures were successfully conquered!
Friday: Lazing. What does my day of lazing look like? After a lazy morning and lazy lunch, I went out to grab some packages at the UPS store (comics & games & stuff for Kimberly), then I biked up the hill to Clark Kerr, where I hiked up the hill a little more and found a bench to sit on. I read a while (The Fifth Season) and wrote some (a D&D history, of which I wrote one almost every day this holiday, only missing today). Afterward I biked out to Dark Carnival, and used a gift certificate to buy a book (Winter Tide: The Innsmouth Legacy) and was pleasantly surprised to recall what great stock Dark Carnival has. Then it was out to groceries and home, after which Kimberly and I went out to get dinner at King Dong.
Saturday: ZooLighting. Another lazing day, but around dark, Kimberly and I took a Lyft up to the Oakland Zoo. Somehow, neither of us have ever been there, despite decades of living in the Bay Area. They have a holiday festival of lights, with lots of Christmas lights wrapped around everything and animals made out of light and Christmas songs and a (mediocre) laser show. My favorite part of the trip was a gondala ride far above Oakland up into the darkness, with lights all around, both the far-away city and the nearby Zoolights. Pretty cool! We had another dinner out afterward.
Sunday: Orléansing. Some of my friends wanted a Pathfinder day and some wanted a long-game day, so I ended up hosting both (and all thanks to Kimberly who was willing to humor us). We started out with a shared luncheon, which was Eric L's suggestion, in part so that Kimberly could enjoy some tasty food. Then we played Orléans: Invasion! and lost (as usual) and then we played again and won (for my first time ever!). Woo! Good game! And I've added it to my list of played-games in my co-op design book now that it's exceeded five plays.
And that was the rest of my year-end holiday.
T-2 years until Hawaii.