Weekend: Health, Gaming, Writing
Nov. 10th, 2003 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aHad a pretty good weekend, and it's a shame that it's now over.
Most importantly, I was feeling decently healthy for the duration of the weekend. I seem to have fought off whatever was trying to grab ahold of me late last week (my guess: the cold that DW had the previous weekend at gaming, announced when he came into the room with the standard DW-refrain: "I'm not contagious"). With it gone, all the weird aches and pains that I thought were my mystery ailment returning have faded away too.
I've kept thinking about going back to the gym these last couple of days, and expect to pick my routine back up very soon. October generally sucked for fitness. I think I did cardio once, and part of a half-hearted attempt at weight-lifting.
Just in time, K's problems have shifted from depression to hypomania. The hypomania tends to stress me out more that the depression, because I know K's badly hurt herself in the former state [tendonitis, badly hurt knees, taking on the workload that probably sent her spiralling out of control during her third semester of grad school] but not the latter. Conversely, K. seems to treat it a lot more casually, and so I end up worrying for two.
Gaming
I have been enjoying myself the last couple of days, however, and generally feeling better and more able than I have for a while. I had 4 guests over on Thursday, and we did indeed play Puerto Rico as planned. I was not disappointed; it's a great strategic game. King Me!, which followed that evening, was largely boring, though I could see just a couple of minutes in that I wasn't the target audience. The latter only cost us about 30 minutes.
Saturday morning I was awoken by FedEx Ground ringing the doorbell, and leapt out of bad to claim my box of games from Funagain.com (throwing on a robe first, which I'm sure the FedEx guy appreciated). I took Mystery Rummy #1 with me to gaming, along with three of the Cheapass Games I was recently sent. Besides playing in my favorite RPG, Erzo, we also played three of the games I'd brought. Light Speed was a very enjoyable real-time spaceship combat game while our other Cheapass offering, Steam Tunnel was a pedestrian accountant's game. Mystery Rummy ran very long, largely because a couple of the gamers kept having analysis paralysis, but I found it enjoyable. DK mentioned the fact that he and K. used to play Rummy for hours, which made me smile because I'd gotten the game hoping that she'd like playing it (though her concentration's been too shot to try it out yet).
Now I have a ton of reviews to write up. For review copies I've recently played I have: King Me!, Light Speed, Steam Tunnel, and the Cheapass Game Components in general. For other games I've recently played I have: Serenissima, Puerto Rico, and Democrazy (all of which are solid designs, two French and one German, and thus do indeed deserve writeups).
This week I think we're going to do Pirate's Cove on Thursday night, then I'm skipping Saturday gaming because it involves helping EF move back into his house (he got a job a week after we helped him move into an apartment, and thus doesn't have to sell his house afterall) and I had enough trauma after helping him move the last time. In any case, I'm still one up on all the other gamers who didn't help him move into his house the first time, a couple of years back.
Writing
Speaking of writing, I actually managed to do some on Sunday. Hoorah! I finished up that review of New England which had sat neglected on my computer for most of my week. Then I finished writing up my yellow elf article for Tradetalk #13 (maybe #14) which had sat largely neglected through my illness in October.
I've got one other badly neglected piece, on the Vale of Flowers, that I need to finish up (for another mag), then a couple of pieces that I can do to get ahead on Tradetallk so that there will be no stress in 2004 about that mag. And then I can seriously think about what other freetime writing I want to do.
Whew.
Most importantly, I was feeling decently healthy for the duration of the weekend. I seem to have fought off whatever was trying to grab ahold of me late last week (my guess: the cold that DW had the previous weekend at gaming, announced when he came into the room with the standard DW-refrain: "I'm not contagious"). With it gone, all the weird aches and pains that I thought were my mystery ailment returning have faded away too.
I've kept thinking about going back to the gym these last couple of days, and expect to pick my routine back up very soon. October generally sucked for fitness. I think I did cardio once, and part of a half-hearted attempt at weight-lifting.
Just in time, K's problems have shifted from depression to hypomania. The hypomania tends to stress me out more that the depression, because I know K's badly hurt herself in the former state [tendonitis, badly hurt knees, taking on the workload that probably sent her spiralling out of control during her third semester of grad school] but not the latter. Conversely, K. seems to treat it a lot more casually, and so I end up worrying for two.
Gaming
I have been enjoying myself the last couple of days, however, and generally feeling better and more able than I have for a while. I had 4 guests over on Thursday, and we did indeed play Puerto Rico as planned. I was not disappointed; it's a great strategic game. King Me!, which followed that evening, was largely boring, though I could see just a couple of minutes in that I wasn't the target audience. The latter only cost us about 30 minutes.
Saturday morning I was awoken by FedEx Ground ringing the doorbell, and leapt out of bad to claim my box of games from Funagain.com (throwing on a robe first, which I'm sure the FedEx guy appreciated). I took Mystery Rummy #1 with me to gaming, along with three of the Cheapass Games I was recently sent. Besides playing in my favorite RPG, Erzo, we also played three of the games I'd brought. Light Speed was a very enjoyable real-time spaceship combat game while our other Cheapass offering, Steam Tunnel was a pedestrian accountant's game. Mystery Rummy ran very long, largely because a couple of the gamers kept having analysis paralysis, but I found it enjoyable. DK mentioned the fact that he and K. used to play Rummy for hours, which made me smile because I'd gotten the game hoping that she'd like playing it (though her concentration's been too shot to try it out yet).
Now I have a ton of reviews to write up. For review copies I've recently played I have: King Me!, Light Speed, Steam Tunnel, and the Cheapass Game Components in general. For other games I've recently played I have: Serenissima, Puerto Rico, and Democrazy (all of which are solid designs, two French and one German, and thus do indeed deserve writeups).
This week I think we're going to do Pirate's Cove on Thursday night, then I'm skipping Saturday gaming because it involves helping EF move back into his house (he got a job a week after we helped him move into an apartment, and thus doesn't have to sell his house afterall) and I had enough trauma after helping him move the last time. In any case, I'm still one up on all the other gamers who didn't help him move into his house the first time, a couple of years back.
Writing
Speaking of writing, I actually managed to do some on Sunday. Hoorah! I finished up that review of New England which had sat neglected on my computer for most of my week. Then I finished writing up my yellow elf article for Tradetalk #13 (maybe #14) which had sat largely neglected through my illness in October.
I've got one other badly neglected piece, on the Vale of Flowers, that I need to finish up (for another mag), then a couple of pieces that I can do to get ahead on Tradetallk so that there will be no stress in 2004 about that mag. And then I can seriously think about what other freetime writing I want to do.
Whew.
