I had a great time drafting conspiracy with Adam, Andrew, and Kevin. The first round I got a really good mana engine of a free 1/1 defender that gave mana of any color. This allowed me to ramp very quickly, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to follow through due to a bad card draw. I had a lot of things based on forests, but mostly my plains came out. The second round I took a 5 color deck with a little bit of mana fixing and made it really work. The deck had a ton of great heavy hitting cards and was able to hold its own against some pretty strong attacks from the other players at times.
We went to the city to have a few drinks with Lisa before she leaves. The event was at an interesting bar, that was newspaper publication themed. There were a lot of people I didn’t know, and we talked to a few of them. We then went out to eat at a place called Asha, which had some amazing Thai food.
For games night I played Agricola with Adam, Nick, Erik, and Erik’s guest. I ended up winning, but wasn’t able to use most of the advantages I had for most of the game. The best thing I got was that every time I took a wheat I got to plow a field. I used this five times, but didn’t get to sow until round 10 or so. I was still able to get a lot of points off of the crops, and at the last minute got a fence around the empty land to stay off the major negative from having open land. I really enjoyed it, but would prefer to have 3 people, for speed and placement’s sake.
Lana and Archer have been so cute lately. They have been really good, and I’m getting them a running water bowl. They have been cuddling and sleeping curled up together. Lana also was having a dream that I caught on video.
Tina, Amit, Steph, Iliya, and I played some poker last night. With no money on the line I played it extremely risky, and not much of that payed off. I really wanted to get into “Fantasy Land,” but that didn’t turn out as hoped. Iliya was getting incredibly lucky and playing it safe, so he turned out way on top. I really like the game, and might make it into an app.
On Tuesday Steph and I went over to Jeremy’s to play some Rock Band. Brian and Chris also joined us. It was a fun evening, and I was able to do some expert mode for the first time. I am still really bad at it, but it is to the point where I can have fun doing it. Jeremy had his dip out, and as usual we ate way too much of it. It is hard to resist.
Steph and I cooked up some delicious Tom Yom, then went to Brian’s pool party. The party was enjoyable and very relaxed. We talked with a lot of people about a lot of things, got some time in the pool and hot tub, then left to grab dinner at Zeni’s. The food was good as always, and I ate too much as always. We then headed back to Beachhead where we watched the finale to the season of Game of Thrones. We then played a couple rounds of Race for the Galaxy before heading to bed.
Adam, Tina, Iliya, Brian, and I played some games. We did a 5 person game of Tzolk’in, with the tribes included. I was the group that started with 5 people instead of 3, but I lost due to inability to feed. I did have a great time building 4 of the monuments, but it didn’t make up the point difference. I’ll have to do a game where I spent the whole time trying to get the gods to love me.
After that we did a game that was based on poker, but it didn’t have the same dynamics. The game was too readily meta-gamable and the meta game wasn’t much fun. After a few hands we decided to call it a day.
Iliya and Brian left, so we had a game of 3 for Race for the Galaxy. Tina had a great first game with a rebel build that turned out really well. Then I had a phenomenal game in the second game scoring 91 points and getting 17 prestige.
Steph and I met Jeremy at the Chocolate Garage and had some decent chocolate. We got some of the ones we really like, but didn’t get any of the new ones. We also stopped by the Cladio chocolates and got a few boxes. One of the boxes Steph is giving to her parents, since they asked for it. We also grabbed the ingredients for some Tom Yom soup and plan to make it tomorrow morning. It should be tasty.
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