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Escape from AT&T Park

Since we like escape rooms we thought it would be a lot of fun to do one of the larger escape room events.  This one was Escape from AT&T Park in SF.  We got into SF a little early.  I missed the train at the last second because I was trying to buy a ticket, but I was able to meet Steph at the 4th and King station by Lyfting there.  We met up with the rest fo the crew at the Little Skillet, and Steph got some food.  We headed over to the park and hung out on the field while waiting for people.  We split into two groups, one of 4 and one of 5.

The puzzle was split into 4 major sections.  The first part was pretty easy, just a lot of little bits to it.  The second part had us stumped for a bit, but the other group was the first in the entire event to get through it.  The third part wasn’t bad, and we got past it very quickly.   The final part was also a breeze for us, as we understood the style of the puzzle pretty quickly.  The other group went down the wrong tracks and got stuck.  They were on the final puzzle for a really long time, being the second group to get there.  I prefer games where the puzzle is difficult even when you know how to solve it.  Most games meed to have a lowest common denominator, such that knowing how to solve the puzzle is always the hard part.

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Gloomhaven

Tina, George, Adam, and I had an exciting Friday night playing Gloomhaven.  It was the end of one of the quest lines, and the quest was to protect a specific individual.  She got hit a few times, but nothing too bad.  There was one point that if the monster drew a 2x we would have lost.  I wasn’t able to do that much damage, but I was able to keep the monsters occupied while Adam dealt out a ton of damage.

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A Slow Week

This week was strangely productive and not.  I did a lot, but nothing amounted to much.  I got to play some Gloomhaven with Adam, Tina, and George at Tina’s place while we watched the State of the Union.  Steph’s new character was interesting to play, and didn’t do well in the scenario we chose.

Wednesday we did wander.  Darren and Debby joined me at Shoreline lake to work at the cafe there.  It was a fantastic day and I got a good amount of work done. Afterwards Debby and I went to the Game Kastle in the San Antonio Shopping Center and played some Dead Man’s Draw.  It is a good game that Michael showed me last week.  Debby liked it enough that she got it.  We took it to George’s and played a round there as well.  There was a group that played Terra-forming Mars with the Venus expansion.  Debby George and I played more casual games and chatted.  I went back to shoreline lake the next day and kayaked a bit and picked up the bike I left there the previous day.

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St. Louis Trip

I flew to St. Louis to visit with Michael, and help him with his non-profit.  I got in Wednesday Evening, with a uneventful flight.  He picked me up from the airport and then went back to his place.  The neighborhood was nice, and I was surprised how open it was for being pretty close to downtown St. Louis.  I’m not used to seeing empty lots or large unused back yards to buildings.

I led a seminar for his non-profit for the next two days, and we hung out with his girlfriend Ala.  She was very nice, although she came down with something and couldn’t spend much time with us.  I walked around and got to see some more of St. Louis.  The food was very tasty, but heavy.

The startup space here has been amazing.  In many ways it is better than the spaces I’ve seen in the Bay Area.  The price is certainly lower.  We went to a startup meetup, and it was pretty interesting.  The vibe was pretty much the same as the startup mixers in SF, which means I was uncomfortable the whole time.

Saturday we went around a few neighborhoods, a farmers market, and got lunch at a smokehouse.  We worked for the afternoon and went to one of Michael’s friends houses for games.  We played an interesting game called Clank which was a mix of Dungeon Quest and Ascension.  I enjoyed it, but it took a lot longer than it probably should have.

Sunday we went to the Zoo and worked some more.

Sunday evening we played some Dead of Winter, and it was a good time.  We won by a lot, just from getting lucky on the characters we started with.

Monday we went to a meeting for social work in Catholic charities, and it was interesting.  Michael got a lot more out of it than I did, but I still enjoyed hearing about it.  The thing that struck me the most was that they wanted to track their work and quantify their impacts, but that they were lacking a solid metric to base their measure of success on.

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We got lunch at a brewpub and he dropped me off at the airport.  All in all a pretty good trip.

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Dinner and Games

I went to hang out in Palo Alto on Tuesday, while Irene was getting her phone fixed.  I got a lot of work done at the Starbucks next door, and eventually she finished and we got some really tasty food at Yayoi.

I then headed to Tina’s place to plays some games with her, Adam, and Tim.  We played Castles of Mad King Ludwig.  It was a great time, and I was just behind Tina in points, and the other two were a ways behind us.

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Yoga and Dinner

Monday I had met Debby and Jeremy for yoga.  We went through a pretty tough session of heated yoga, but this time I remembered to bring a lot of towels.  I really enjoyed the session, as it was on the difficult side for me.  Jeremy had a hard time of it, but he was on a calorie restriction diet as well as his first time in 10 years doing yoga.  Debby seemed to breeze through, but she does a lot more yoga than I do.

Dinner afterwards was nice as we were joined by Adam and Andrew at a Thai place next to the yoga studio.

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Prolific Oven/ Tapt Board Games

I got to play some games with people at the Prolific Oven/Tapt in Sunnyvale.  It is a fantastic place to play games, and they have a lovely selection of drinks.  The ginger mead I had the first time wasn’t there unfortunately.  It is a drink I’ll need to find more of (Sting – Ginger Session Mead).

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The games were fun, we played Spirit Island twice, then Feast for Odin.  Adam just barely beat me on Feast, and we were able to clean up pretty easily on Spirit Island.

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Wandering Wednesdays

I had a lot of friends join me at the SVVR coworking space for a wfh day for them.  It was really nice having them around and working at the same time.  Darren and Debby joined early on, followed by Adam.

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Later on Irene joined in as well.  It was a decently productive day for me.

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Breakwater Dive

Steph and I did an early Sunday dive in Breakwater.  We did one really long dive, probably close to an hour underwater, and going from the wall out to the metridium fields.  The dive was pretty nice, and not too cold, since we were doing quite a bit of swimming.  We saw a sea lion or harbor seal underwater, but it was just a large black object that went by really quickly.  It probably had a three foot approach to Steph, but didn’t slow down much.  There were also a ton of nudibranchs, but all of them were the white with yellow tips varietal.  I also saw a few different types of crab, including a massive sheepshead crab.  It wasn’t extended, but I assume it would be around 5 foot span if it did.  The metridiums were pretty as always, and we got a little lucky to run across them, as we didn’t hit the pipe first.

After the dive we walked along the waterfront to get crepes.  I really enjoyed my pesto, tomato, and cheese crepe.  The walk itself was much better than I would have thought, and something I’ll certainly want to do every time we go diving at Breakwater.

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