Back in Ottawa for less than 24 hours.  We're doing 3 loads of laundry and re-packing the car in preparation for our journey to Nova Scotia tomorrow.  I'll be going into the office to do a bit of work in the morning, while Jim finishes the packing and picks up Foxy. Then we're off.

WBC was an exhausting but gratifying experience.  For those who aren ( Read more... )

Scrabble players often discuss the extent to which luck is a factor in the game, especially after the kind of game in which your opponent has all  the power tiles, and you're stuck trying to swap your multiple Us or Is...more than once.  Many that I have spoken to suggest that that among players of approximately equal ability (lets say within 200 ( Read more... )

I'm sitting outside the ballroom at the Lancaster Host Hotel, surrounded by my fellow participants in this year's World Boardgaming Champonships.  This is my 9th or 10th WBC (I missed two years because I went to Worldcon instead), and it's an amazing event -- the boardgaming equivalent of the Scrabble National Championships.   We came down a bit ( Read more... )