One of those truly excellent weekends
Friday I went to gaming at Mark and Lauren's. (I host gaming every Sunday, but I go to their place for more once or twice each month.) We discovered that Descent is horribly weighted against the players, and that The Last Night on Earth is horribly weighted for them. But while the latter has ways included to increase the difficulty, Descent can only be fixed by house-ruling it out the ass.
Saturday I drove into Seattle to watch the Seafair air show. No Blue Angels this year - damn sequestration! - but there was an alternate team, the Patriot Stunt Pilots. Their planes aren't as fast, which means not as pulse-pounding a show. On the good side, though, not as fast means not as ear-splittingly loud, and they spend more time over the audience doing their stunts rather than going twenty miles out to make a turn. And, being a different group, they had a different show. Not that I've watched all that many Blue Angels performances (I think I've seen three), but even so different is better, when it comes to entertainment.
The biggest downside of the day was that I saw the show from the I-90 bridge (look, Ma, I'm playing in traffic!) but I had to park up top of the hill due to traffic restrictions. Apparently that neighborhood isn't keen to have a bunch of strangers driving around and cluttering up their streets. Climbing up and down that hill was one hell of a workout. I had to take a nap when I got home. Although having to get up 4 hours early to make the show probably contributed, there.
Sunday was more, this time the regular Sunday Game Night I host. We played Thunderstone for the first time since we asked the player who owned it not to come back (Yeah, I didn't mention that in a previous LJ, and I should have. Sorry. Not that anyone reads this.) which was fun except I hadn't sorted the cards. That took a while. But I won Thunderstone for the first time, possibly because of that player's absence.
We also did a communal grilling that night, the first time since April or May. This one was more successful; Fox actually had enough charcoal this time, and we didn't try much in the way of experimental grilling of vegetables. So it was very a tasty, meatocious evening.
And today I took zucchinni, squash, peppers, and onions, and steamed them along with salmon, clams, shrimp, and scallops to make my own Crab Pot style dinner. It's a lot of food and I look forward to having it throughout the week at work. Smells delicious.
Put all that together with absolutely beautiful weather, and it was just an awesome weekend.
Saturday I drove into Seattle to watch the Seafair air show. No Blue Angels this year - damn sequestration! - but there was an alternate team, the Patriot Stunt Pilots. Their planes aren't as fast, which means not as pulse-pounding a show. On the good side, though, not as fast means not as ear-splittingly loud, and they spend more time over the audience doing their stunts rather than going twenty miles out to make a turn. And, being a different group, they had a different show. Not that I've watched all that many Blue Angels performances (I think I've seen three), but even so different is better, when it comes to entertainment.
The biggest downside of the day was that I saw the show from the I-90 bridge (look, Ma, I'm playing in traffic!) but I had to park up top of the hill due to traffic restrictions. Apparently that neighborhood isn't keen to have a bunch of strangers driving around and cluttering up their streets. Climbing up and down that hill was one hell of a workout. I had to take a nap when I got home. Although having to get up 4 hours early to make the show probably contributed, there.
Sunday was more, this time the regular Sunday Game Night I host. We played Thunderstone for the first time since we asked the player who owned it not to come back (Yeah, I didn't mention that in a previous LJ, and I should have. Sorry. Not that anyone reads this.) which was fun except I hadn't sorted the cards. That took a while. But I won Thunderstone for the first time, possibly because of that player's absence.
We also did a communal grilling that night, the first time since April or May. This one was more successful; Fox actually had enough charcoal this time, and we didn't try much in the way of experimental grilling of vegetables. So it was very a tasty, meatocious evening.
And today I took zucchinni, squash, peppers, and onions, and steamed them along with salmon, clams, shrimp, and scallops to make my own Crab Pot style dinner. It's a lot of food and I look forward to having it throughout the week at work. Smells delicious.
Put all that together with absolutely beautiful weather, and it was just an awesome weekend.