Tag: buffer time

They can’t all be funny.

Ayse and Ken and Jus and Non went back home this morning, because they have to do work and school and all kinds of things on Monday. Dave and I stayed to entertain our hosts, or at least help Halloween Toddler throw more things down the stairs.

Played (card game): Buffer Time. After realizing we had been cheating before, we started playing correctly (it wasn’t a lot of difference) and eventually won a game. Losing the other games was approximately as fun, because it is a ridiculous and random game.

Watched (animated TV): Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.4-5: Still pretty great. Also, brain-sucking alien parasite!

Played (board game): Nippon Rails. A long and narrow crayon rails game. I am still very bad at these, because I cannot keep enough thoughts in my head to plan out a run more than one contract long. Also I forget to keep enough money in reserve to make all the rails I need and get stuck redrawing for four turns in a row to get a contract I can fulfill. Also also I suck.

Played (board game): Daybreak. We won on turn four, go us.

Played (board game): Codenames. It was very late, and we were not very clever.

Read (manga): VACATION.

Written (anything): VACATION.

Also Buy Nothing on the Blue Planet, which we violated only slightly by patronizing a FLGS and not buying very much. I would have bought some Fluxxes for Sherilyn, but I didn’t know which of the more than 37 varieties she doesn’t already have.

Played (card game): Buffer Time. Al got a copy of the Star Trek: Lower Decks card game for his birthday last spring or something but finally broke it out. It was surprisingly fun for a cooperative game where everyone usually loses.

Watched (animated TV): Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.1-3: Dave and I wanted to know what all the jokes were referencing, so Al showed us the first three episodes. It was pretty good! I’m not fannish, so I probably missed 90% of the references to the 900 other episodes of Star Trek-related material, but it was funny in its own right. I suspect all my characters are actually Boimler.

Played (board game): Lords of Waterdeep with Skullport and Undermountain expansions. I did okay, but came in– wait, I came in first?! I think I successfully dipped into the blue corruption skulls to get a bit ahead and then shed them, so I got all those extra points. Dave went heavy into blue skulls, and zoomed ahead during the game but then lost 84 points in the final accounting. Ouch.

Read (manga): VACATION.

Written (anything): VACATION.