This evening I joined Steph, Nick, Tina, Amit, Candice, and Brian at Rooster T Feathers for a Comedy night. The MC was pretty good, the first act (Sandy Stec) had great jokes and ok timing, and the main act (Sheng Wang) was really funny with only a few jokes that fell short. I had a really good time and will probably be going back for more comedy shows. They had a special for tonight, with $10 for 2 people, but you had to buy 2 items from the menu each as well. I got 2 drinks, since afterwards we were going to Shah. The food at Shah was a little bland, but I did really like the aloo naan (potato stuffed bread).
We had a good trip aboard the Cat35. The seas were rather smooth and the wind was steady and strong. That led to the day being less seasick than the other trips , as well as less eventful. I had a good time as we did get to see a number of otters, dolphins, and birds. Riley did get sick, but only for the shortest period of time. Overall 9 of the 14 people we’ve taken out have gotten sick. in the first 2 trips we only had 1 person each trip that wasn’t getting seasick. We got much more lucky on this one, and the only person to get seasick only did so momentarily. Rong, Steph, Riley, Bo, and Yumi were there with me. Rong was the only one brave enough to take the wheel for any period of time. I was surprised when Bo wasn’t up for steering. There was a pod of maybe 6 dolphins about 1.5 miles from the entrance to the harbor, which we passed on the way out and back in, they weren’t doing anything fancy. They were also quite small dolphins.
Nick and I played a round of Innovation the base game. I got an early lead, but Nick quickly caught up. He was 1 achievement away from winning, but I was able to super tech up and stop him from his last one. Then I was able to use the super tech to score a ton of points and take the game. It was really close the entire time and a little bit of a change would have made the difference in the game.
The kitties went to the vet today, and they did well. Archer was meowing the entire way, he doesn’t stop at all while he is in the carrier. He was great while we were actually in the exam room. He was on my shoulder most of the time, and was really nice. Lana was a bit more of a pain since she wouldn’t let me hold her. One more trip to the vet before they have all their vaccines done.
This was a really good game, but it was both longer and shorter than I would have liked. The number of rounds was a little few, since the engine building didn’t really get the chance to take off. I always feel that in any engine building game you need the game to end just before the engines get out of control. It may have been our inexperience with the game, but we weren’t even close to having the game get out of control. I had a great time doing it though. I think the game would be better with fewer options per round and more rounds.
I played it twice. The first was Adam, Steph, and Brian playing with me. Steph did not join in the second game. I got second to Adam in both situations, as he was able to exploit two really well developed strategies. I was very close to winning the second game, but Brian blocked one of my big point tiles by 1 meople.
This book is bringing everything together for the big finale. It is great to have all the disparate paths winding up nice and neat. There are several things that I wasn’t expecting at all to come out of the book, but were very nice surprises. The book, since it is so close to the end, didn’t create many of those unanswered questions and cliffhangers that were so annoying about then end of the last few. I really enjoyed it and am going to be sad when there isn’t any more to listen to. I’m excited to start the last book, and think I’ll get to that right now.
I played a round of Race last night with Adam and Steph. I chose very poorly on strategy, and also wasn’t able to get anything going with only developments in hand. Steph and Adam were both going strong military. Steph really ran away with it at the end, despite Adam an I having prestige. I enjoyed it despite losing terribly.
Last night I went to join a group at beachhead for drinks. It was Jeremy B, Adam, Tina, Riley, Rong, Steph, and myself. Adam had made some fruit soaked liquor. It was really tasty, but the kind of drink that would make you expect to look down and find a pink dress. I made the spinach gnocchi that I had bought a couple weeks ago, and it was really tasty.
I had a good bike ride home from Steph’s this morning with stops by Fry’s and Milk Pail. The rest of the day I spent with the Kitties.
The first thing Archer did this morning when I walked in was to jump up onto my shoulder. I really love my shoulder kitty! That might become one of the things I put into my kickstarter is the shoulder kitty for anyone who backs us. They were fun to play with as I made a toy out of the ribbon they like. I had them running around for at least 15 minutes straight. After that they were really cuddly, and I was able to get Archer to fall asleep on my lap.
