I’m 36 today. The years are speeding by now. I’ve had a very good year, all things considered, although this isn’t my favourite day of it – I’m stuck at work printing report after report. Given that’s also what I was doing yesterday and most of last week, I’m a bit sick of it now.
Happily, I’ve got two new boardgames: Dominion (currently #7 on BGG) and Battlestar Galactica. Unhappily, I’ll have to wait a few days until I can play them. No, neither were birthday presents.
Present-wise, I picked up a couple of gift cards, a promise of new shoes, and a Doctor Who talking key-chain, which I really, really like. 
One of the gift cards has been turned into a Doctor Who DVD (The War Machines), the other will wait for either a trip to Melbourne, or – more likely – someone else’s trip to Melbourne to be redeemed.
One of the gift cards has been turned into a Doctor Who DVD (The War Machines), the other will wait for either a trip to Melbourne, or – more likely – someone else’s trip to Melbourne to be redeemed.Oh, and my brother gave me a fabulous Folio Society Edition of I, Claudius by Robert Graves. I read the book many, many times when I was growing up, and I’m delighted to have a very nice edition of it – the old paperback copy has disintegrated, I’m afraid.
My friends and I celebrated my birthday on Sunday, after they endured several setbacks in getting out to my place with regards to transport. When they got here, we had a fun afternoon, playing several boardgames: Last Night on Earth: the Zombie Game, Transeuropa (with the Vexation expansion), Citadels, and Zooloretto. Vexation really changed Transeuropa. Rich was by far superior in that – he won every round. I won the other three – although for LNOE, I was the Zombies and the heroes almost won. But not quite. 🙂
Anyway, back to the reports…
Happy Birthday!
I think you’ll like Battlestar Galactica. I highly recommend it with 6 players. It’s got a great traitor element.
Thanks Rodney. Yes, I really can’t wait to play it. I enjoyed Shadows over Camelot, but BSG looks really special. 🙂 (My friends are already assuming I’m going to play Gaius Baltar… no idea why… ;))
I’ve definitely been addicted to dominion recently. Best game I’ve played in a while; also, relatively easy to teach.
I’m looking forward to it. I hope I’ll get a game in this weekend.
Happy birthday!
Thanks, Charles!
Happy birthday. Too bad about working rather than enjoying it, but just a few more days to the weekend.
Thank you! Yeah, I’m looking forward to this weekend (and the two weeks of holiday that it starts).
Happy Birthday!
Grats on Dominion and BSG. I’m expecting BSG myself, soon, just made a trade on BGG for my copy of Kingsburg.
Thanks muchly! Of course, now I have the top 10 on BGG, I need the top 20… so, Age of Steam, Hannibal and Paths of Glory to go. The first and last are OOP at present… although I think AoS is getting reprinted next year.
Happy Birthday,
Dominion and BSG… great games (so I have heard).
Have fun, Merric
Thanks! I’m going to try to!
Happy Birthday! I’m lookin’ forward to reports on Dominion… it sounds like such a cool game.
Thank you! I hope to post more session reports soon – boy, I’ve been busy the last couple of weeks.
Belated Happy Birthday Merric!
Sounds like you had fun — wish I coulda been there.
In other news I picked up the World of Warcraft Adventure game the other day. Haven’t played it yet, but hey.
Thanks muchly, Sarah. Hope you enjoy the WoW adventure game – I’ve played it a couple of times, but there are so many other good games I haven’t gotten back to it. 🙂