Skirmish-16
On Saturday, Josh Tempkin held two Skirmish-16 tournaments at Games and Comics and Stuff in Glen Burnie, Maryland. Four of us other Table Treasure members volunteered to help. I had volunteered to help on the condition that Josh give me a ride to Peace Lutheran Church (a mile or two from the tournament) afterwards. The tournaments lasted until 6pm, and with cleanup I did not reach church until 6:37pm, so I missed the Saturday worship service.
Skirmish-16 is a game Josh invented. He had invented it for a contest to make a game that consisted of exactly 16 cards. It is a good game, simple yet with high levels of out-thinking your opponent, so he is going to market it. He has not sent it to a game publisher yet. The tournament was held with the prototype cards. I think its purpose was to gauge the interest in the game. The players, four at the 2pm tournament and seven at the 4pm tournament, liked the game.
As for me missing church, it gave the other people at the service a chance to fill the roles of greeter and usher that I usually serve. frostmuffin knows the key to recruiting volunteers: ask them to fill a real need, and make sure the task does not seem overwhelming. Proper build-up aids the second part. By asking people to serve little tasks like greeter or reader, they learn that such roles are easy and become willing to move up to more difficult roles, such as communion assistant or choir member.
Anyway, I did not miss worship this weekend. I attended most of the Sunday 9am service and all of the Sunday 11am service. I skipped out of the 9am service early to fulfill my duties as a Sunday School teacher. We had a multigenerational event at 10am this Sunday, combining pretzel making with a little Mardi Gras celebration, and I was one of the pretzel bakers.
tempestborne was visiting this weekend, but because of the tournament I saw little of him. He is going to upgrade Frostmuffin's computer so that it can play the Oblivion game that I promised her as a present. Oblivion is her belated Christmas present (I have to wait until the game actually comes out) and my share of the upgrade is her birthday present.
Frostmuffin also did the FAFSA application for our daughters today. She finished the one for xelona, but she has to wait until riverlark's PIN is re-issued to finish hers.
Erin Schram
Skirmish-16 is a game Josh invented. He had invented it for a contest to make a game that consisted of exactly 16 cards. It is a good game, simple yet with high levels of out-thinking your opponent, so he is going to market it. He has not sent it to a game publisher yet. The tournament was held with the prototype cards. I think its purpose was to gauge the interest in the game. The players, four at the 2pm tournament and seven at the 4pm tournament, liked the game.
As for me missing church, it gave the other people at the service a chance to fill the roles of greeter and usher that I usually serve. frostmuffin knows the key to recruiting volunteers: ask them to fill a real need, and make sure the task does not seem overwhelming. Proper build-up aids the second part. By asking people to serve little tasks like greeter or reader, they learn that such roles are easy and become willing to move up to more difficult roles, such as communion assistant or choir member.
Anyway, I did not miss worship this weekend. I attended most of the Sunday 9am service and all of the Sunday 11am service. I skipped out of the 9am service early to fulfill my duties as a Sunday School teacher. We had a multigenerational event at 10am this Sunday, combining pretzel making with a little Mardi Gras celebration, and I was one of the pretzel bakers.
tempestborne was visiting this weekend, but because of the tournament I saw little of him. He is going to upgrade Frostmuffin's computer so that it can play the Oblivion game that I promised her as a present. Oblivion is her belated Christmas present (I have to wait until the game actually comes out) and my share of the upgrade is her birthday present.
Frostmuffin also did the FAFSA application for our daughters today. She finished the one for xelona, but she has to wait until riverlark's PIN is re-issued to finish hers.
Erin Schram