Monthly Archives: October 2005

Game Day 10/16/2005

Another trip up North, the far far North. We started the supposedly meaty game day with Pig Pile. A light, fluffy and chaotic game. In this game, the Pig God hated me and gave me poor cards. But it still remains a fun and quick game for me.

Conquest of the Empire

Finally a somewhat meaty game was played! I really tried hard to convince people to play Struggle of Empires. Unfortunately, no one would have anything to do with it. They wanted to play the supposedly lighter version. Sigh. I am beginning to loose faith in this game group. Still, we got to play with plastic army pieces.

I made sure that everyone knew that Mike would be untrustworthy in this game ;). But what was surprising to me was that no one allied in this game for land battles. Naval battles were pretty much a waste of time as well. Another weird thing was that the alliances did not change during the whole game. Except for a tiny bit at the end.

Hopefully, I can find enough interest in a game of Struggle sometime.

Disc Golf 10/15/2005

Another round of disc golf. This one was interesting because we first scheduled it for Old Settlers’ Park. We then changed the location to Cat Hollow. When I got there, I saw that the Hairy Man Festival was going on in the park next door. I parked a ways away to avoid the road closing. Fortunately, the others were not deterred and showed up as well. On the first hole, we spent a good twenty minutes trying to find my lost white disc. I had just about given up the search when Adam finally found it. Man these discs are hard to find!

I also rode my bike this morning in my usual route. I was passed by like a hundred bicyclers! Man my bike is slow. But I like it because I feel like I get some good excercise compared to a faster and easier to pedal bike.

Game Day 10/13/2005

Fairy Tale

The first game of the night is usually a light, filler game. And this night was no exception. We haven’t played Fairy Tale in a while, and I am glad we opened it up.

Goa

Our first meaty game was Goa. It had been a while since this game was played last. I played a three player game with Doug and Adam. I probably was under bidding on the tiles as Doug would usually bid one more than my bid. Very annoying ;). Adam went for the route of collecting a lot of expedition cards and won the game.

Tichu

Ahhhh… we were looking for a short game to end the night on. With four people at the table, I quickly suggested Tichu. After all, John was a Tichu newbie and we needed to get another convert to this game. The bad news was that I picked John as my partner, and the good new was that we were not officially recording the score. What was weird was that I almost never was passed the Dog. I think that John started to understand some of the game play and strategy that goes on in Tichu.

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Disc Golf 10/09/2005

Now that the temperatures are more reasonable in the day, we played another round of disc golf. The morning low was 47 degrees so it was rather chilly. So I broke out some long clothes for my bike ride. I got back in time for a little rest before heading out to the course. It was beautiful out and the temperature was in the high seventies at the end of the game.

Game Day 10/06/2005

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We started with the typical filler while we waited for more people to show up. And I was the best dressed tonight. One of these days, I will start a long game on time and screw who ever is late!

Euphrat and Tigris

And then we had four. A perfect number for many games. And a hard number to have many times. So I was happy. I suggested E&T and everyone agreed. We had one new player so an explination of the rules was required. I started out, but when someone else started saying how I should talk about this other thing first, I just let that other person finish explaining the rules. Less stress that way.

I just could not get the tiles I wanted. Green was very scarce for me. And when I finally got some, all the spots to place that had many green were well defended. This late into the game I wanted to start an external conflict over green to get caught up. And then Mike started a battle between myself and John over only black which I lost. So then I was hurting on the black score. Sigh. Still a good game.

Mc Multi

And after that brain burner, I suggested Mc Multi. This game suffered from a horrible economy. The consumer market was low for most of the game. This hurt Jon as he tried a different strategy and went for all gas stations on his island and buying gas from the markets to sell into the consumer market. At the end of the game, I needed to roll some good numbers in order to sell of my equipment. Unfortunately I rolled poorly. The scores were rather close. I was pipped by one dollar! And the winner was ahead by 56 dollars! This game could have beed determined by dice rolls.

Cellphone reuse

I buy new cellphones to quickly. But technology progresses and the new phones have cool features. Part of being on the cutting edge, I guess.

At least there is a use for old phones. I dug up the box and manual for my old Sanyo 8100 phone finally. And dropped it off at the yoga place. Hopefully, it will find a use with the Blue Santa group helping battered women.

New sprinkler puzzle

I redid the plants in the bed in front of the house in the spring. During the summer, I notice that the sprinkers do not water in one area and one of the plants is looking pretty toasty. Fortunately it is drought tolerant and doesn’t die.

So this weekend I decide to add another sprinker to the bed. I dig a hole where I know the sprinker line runs and where I want to add a T intersection. But then what to do? I can just cut a small section out and plug the T in. The sides will not bend for me to add the T snugly. My next thought is to see if I can just dig up one end of the line and hope to pull the line out enough and push it back when I need to fit it in. But when I dig up the sprinker at the end I realize that this is not the end and is in fact comes from where the sprinkerler water main is.

So I sit and think for a while and come up with this solution. I glue the elbows into both ends of the original pipe. Then I glue the rest of the contraption together and then I glue the other sides of the elbows and push the contraption into place. Phew, it was tough but it worked enough. After it dried, I ran the sprinkler section to test for leaks. Fortunately, there were none.

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