For various reasons, I'm behind on providing con reports, so this will be brief. I'll try to provide more detail in the comments, as requested.

Friday Afternoon: Board GamesThis con ended up being far more boardgame heavy than usual. To be fair, that wouldn't be hard as I usually only play one or two, if that. Over the course of the weekend, I ( Read more... )

After feasting on the remains of my still-delicious Sabu for lunch, I visited John and Julie in Hollywood for an afternoon/evening of beer and boardgames. We tried Eagle Rock Brewery's Populist IPA (a delicious beer which I also had at the brewery yesterday) and Stone Brewing's Green Tea IPA over three games of Dominion.


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Day of Games last Saturday was the centrepeice to a great weekend. More than that, it bled over into my subsequent week in interesting and awkward ways.

Let's start at the beginning. I arrived in Wellington on Wednesday evening and spent Thursday with surrealfish and prolegomenon before the arrival of k2vsate, javelin_nz and confusiontempst. Thus began the drinking and the Dominion. There was a brief ( Read more... )