Birthday fun

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.
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…

16 thoughts on “Birthday fun

    1. 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… ;))

    1. 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.

  1. 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.

    1. 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. 🙂

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