Creative batteries recharged today from watching a bunch of Strong Bads (I'm still like a year behind) and then playing a game of Citadels where classicaljunkie played a basic-deck purple card I can't remember ever seeing in play before, if you can believe it. ("School of Magic", which acts as any color for purposes of bonus income ( Read more... )

Doug had another game party at his house on Sunday. It was good.

I played Knizia's abstract and very elegant Ingenious! twice, and though I lost pretty hard both times I decided I really like the game and must obtain a copy. Unlike my Wii/BattleLore/Fool needs, this is actually an attainable goal, so: cool. (karlvonl taught the game to me earlier this ( Read more... )

Friday worked on ITA stuff from home via finally-working VPN, and received a long-sought written spec on this project I am tackling alone. First I need to machine me up some Perl tools, and spent the day sketching out some modules I can design to help me start hacking this company. I shall enjoy this, at least at first. I hope I can keep it up ( Read more... )

Games run amok this weekend. Hadn't played any tabletops in a while so it was all good.

On Saturday classicaljunkie had a birthday party and lo the games were busted out. I brought along my copies of Citadels and Shadows over Camelot and actually got to play both.

Played Citadels first, and I won... again. Maybe my fifth win in a row. I am chronic at winning ( Read more... )