Thoughts from an Australian Gamer
Birthday fun
Posted 16th December 2008 at 05:06 AM by MerricB
I'm 36 today. The years are speeding by now. I've had a very good year, all things considered, although this isn't my favourite day of it - I'm stuck at work printing report after report. Given that's also what I was doing yesterday and most of last week, I'm a bit sick of it now.
Happily, I've got two new boardgames: Dominion (currently #7 on BGG) and Battlestar Galactica. Unhappily, I'll have to wait a few days until I can play them. No, neither were birthday presents.
Present-wise, I picked up a couple of gift cards, a promise of new shoes, and a Doctor Who talking key-chain, which I really, really like. One of the gift cards has been turned into a Doctor Who DVD (The War Machines), the other will wait for either a trip to Melbourne, or - more likely - someone else's trip to Melbourne to be redeemed.
Oh, and my brother gave me a fabulous Folio Society Edition of I, Claudius by Robert Graves. I read the book many, many times when I was growing up, and I'm delighted to have a very nice edition of it - the old paperback copy has disintegrated, I'm afraid.
My friends and I celebrated my birthday on Sunday, after they endured several setbacks in getting out to my place with regards to transport. When they got here, we had a fun afternoon, playing several boardgames: Last Night on Earth: the Zombie Game, Transeuropa (with the Vexation expansion), Citadels, and Zooloretto. Vexation really changed Transeuropa. Rich was by far superior in that - he won every round. I won the other three - although for LNOE, I was the Zombies and the heroes almost won. But not quite.
Happily, I've got two new boardgames: Dominion (currently #7 on BGG) and Battlestar Galactica. Unhappily, I'll have to wait a few days until I can play them. No, neither were birthday presents.
Present-wise, I picked up a couple of gift cards, a promise of new shoes, and a Doctor Who talking key-chain, which I really, really like. One of the gift cards has been turned into a Doctor Who DVD (The War Machines), the other will wait for either a trip to Melbourne, or - more likely - someone else's trip to Melbourne to be redeemed.
Oh, and my brother gave me a fabulous Folio Society Edition of I, Claudius by Robert Graves. I read the book many, many times when I was growing up, and I'm delighted to have a very nice edition of it - the old paperback copy has disintegrated, I'm afraid.
My friends and I celebrated my birthday on Sunday, after they endured several setbacks in getting out to my place with regards to transport. When they got here, we had a fun afternoon, playing several boardgames: Last Night on Earth: the Zombie Game, Transeuropa (with the Vexation expansion), Citadels, and Zooloretto. Vexation really changed Transeuropa. Rich was by far superior in that - he won every round. I won the other three - although for LNOE, I was the Zombies and the heroes almost won. But not quite.
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