A Restful Weekend

[shannon_a]

Had a nicely relaxing three-day weekend. The last year or two, I've tried to be better about actually taking holidays off, and I think that's starting to pay off in my feeling more rested and balanced. It's now been two weeks since the Christmas vacation, and I still feel largely rested, while I've simultaneously been getting good work done.

Amusingly, this was both the weekend of time spent at Endgame and of boardgames.

Saturday I went there for a new session of our Dresden Files game, and when that fell through, our group instead played Small World: Underground and San Francisco Cable Car. Then on Sunday I went back to Endgame to talk with Fred H. and Evan about some of Evil Hat's upcoming board game work. When that ended earlier than I expected, Evan was kind enough to put Kingdom Builder on the table, and we played that twice before I left.

(Because I couldn't spend time at Endgame without gaming could I?)
(Actually, that's a rhetorical question, as I have at parties, auctions, and times I just stopped in.)

That brought my total plays of Kingdom Builder to four, and made me decide that I liked it enough that I didn't want to wait for the Endgame Auction to buy one. So I picked one up and brought it home, along with some tasty Dim Sum. Kimberly and I have already played it twice.

(The game, not the Dim Sum.)

The weather over the weekend was totally schizophrenic. On my Saturday ride to Endgame it was bright and relatively warm and beautiful. It felt like we were in a second Summer (which had been the case for a couple of weeks). Then on Sunday it was gray and cool. The sun didn't even come out until 1 or so. Tonight Kimberly and I biked over to Boston Market for dinner (thanks to a gift card from her brother which had been a Christmas present) and we both commented frequently on how friggin' cold it was.

(Still is.)

I also did some writing over the weekend. I polished up the second half of my Designers & Dragons discussion of D&D comics and I also wrote a couple of thousands words on iOS5 for an upcoming blog (which I did as much as anything because it was a nice way to get my name more noticed in the field). I still want to write a card game review for the week and I definitely need to write up the AP for our last Kingmaker game, but I think I'm saving those for tomorrow (and will probably finish up the AP later in the week).

(And after that, I need to figure out my Designers & Dragons article for March.)

Some reading too, of course. Right now my biggest project is the sixth Malazan Book of the Fallen. I often have problems with longer books because I have a flitting little attention span, so I'm really impressed by how much The Bone Hunters is enthralling me. I thought that Erikson was a strong writer from the first, but I think he may have gotten better as time has gone on. Though I've thus far pushed through the Malazan series at a rate of just two books a year, I may want to read more this year (but I have so much more that I want to read too: the Doctor Who series I'm working on, Wild Cards from the beginning, more Moorcock, Larry Niven's Known Space, the rest of Thieves' World, and much more, so that may be a reason not to read these books that take me a month at a time any faster).

Any way, good stuff.

Comments

[webmacher.livejournal.com]

Kingdom Builder is lots of fun - I'm enjoying it too :-)