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I'm gonna take some sheep down to Jobabh
yay! i first want to thank everyone for your happy wishes and congratulations and all. it's funny, because i guess in reality Eli and I have been sort of pseudo-engaged for a few months in that we decided we'll get married someday and all, but i didn't want to make a big big announcement until we had evidence according to the Clamen school of thought, namely "You're not engaged until you have a ring and a date set." Well, one out of two ain't bad, and we'll have a date set once we figure out where we'll be living in two months, and where we should have the wedding. (I'd think Pittsburgh would be a good place, except since we probly won't be living here it'd be a pain to arrange. I dunno. We'll see.)
Eli would be happy just eloping, but ummm... I would feel gypped out of a major party opportnity, you know? :)
so, anyway... what did I do today? Eli and I went to Yesterday's Books, out in Murrysville. He got some books, and I mostly sat around reading books about actors and actresses in the first half of last century. I love reading about people like the Barrymores, and Marion Davies and Mary Pickford and Shirley Temple and Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and Donald O'Connor and and and I forget who else I skimmed books on, but it was very entertaining to me. I ended up picking up a book on bridge ("Jacoby Modern: The bidding system for the seventies!") and then we came home.
As a note, my ring is very very sparkly in the sunlight, which kept me amused for most of the car ride home.
For dinner we went to Taste of India with Noble, Jen, Drew, Carl, Roman, and Nick. Unlike my usual, I ordered chicken saag instead of chicken tikka masala, and I think I regretted it... I really did want saag, but it turns out that I couldn't actually finish it after all the papadam and pakora and stuff, because the saag sauce itself is really thick and filling, as opposed to the tikka masala sauce which is just sauce. Eh. Oh well, it was still good, and good to get dinner with everyone at ToI.
After ToI, I got Nick and Roman and Carl to play Iron Dragon with me. We used the rules with trains running 50% faster, the 5GP welfare rules, and trading contracts. Roman won, although as usual I was about two turns from winning when he did. It took us about 3 hours to play, although that is including time spent telling Nick the rules, and Nick being a new player, so I would say the 50% speedup really does help speed up game play.. since my first game ever, with 4 people, took like 5 hours. Bleh... Roman really did luck out with some amazing contracts though. I might have accidentally wasted a little bit of time and money connecting to Eaglehawk when I ended up connecting Bluefeld and Octomare anyway. Oh well. It is way fun to have your Iron Dragons go 24 miles a turn instead of just 16 (and the speedup makes it so your Teapots go 15, which is one short of the normal Iron Dragon... Carl didn't even update his train until the very very end as a result I think.)
And I figured out why I am so deadset on playing it a lot - I've never ever actually won a game of Iron Dragon and I really can't quite figure out why... I'm always either like two turns behind. So what's up with that? I keep thinking I'm doing decently at it only to find I'm not. So it is good because it still keeps me thinking a lot; it's not just a game I have a set strategy to play and then just leave it to chance whether I win or not.
Eli would be happy just eloping, but ummm... I would feel gypped out of a major party opportnity, you know? :)
so, anyway... what did I do today? Eli and I went to Yesterday's Books, out in Murrysville. He got some books, and I mostly sat around reading books about actors and actresses in the first half of last century. I love reading about people like the Barrymores, and Marion Davies and Mary Pickford and Shirley Temple and Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and Donald O'Connor and and and I forget who else I skimmed books on, but it was very entertaining to me. I ended up picking up a book on bridge ("Jacoby Modern: The bidding system for the seventies!") and then we came home.
As a note, my ring is very very sparkly in the sunlight, which kept me amused for most of the car ride home.
For dinner we went to Taste of India with Noble, Jen, Drew, Carl, Roman, and Nick. Unlike my usual, I ordered chicken saag instead of chicken tikka masala, and I think I regretted it... I really did want saag, but it turns out that I couldn't actually finish it after all the papadam and pakora and stuff, because the saag sauce itself is really thick and filling, as opposed to the tikka masala sauce which is just sauce. Eh. Oh well, it was still good, and good to get dinner with everyone at ToI.
After ToI, I got Nick and Roman and Carl to play Iron Dragon with me. We used the rules with trains running 50% faster, the 5GP welfare rules, and trading contracts. Roman won, although as usual I was about two turns from winning when he did. It took us about 3 hours to play, although that is including time spent telling Nick the rules, and Nick being a new player, so I would say the 50% speedup really does help speed up game play.. since my first game ever, with 4 people, took like 5 hours. Bleh... Roman really did luck out with some amazing contracts though. I might have accidentally wasted a little bit of time and money connecting to Eaglehawk when I ended up connecting Bluefeld and Octomare anyway. Oh well. It is way fun to have your Iron Dragons go 24 miles a turn instead of just 16 (and the speedup makes it so your Teapots go 15, which is one short of the normal Iron Dragon... Carl didn't even update his train until the very very end as a result I think.)
And I figured out why I am so deadset on playing it a lot - I've never ever actually won a game of Iron Dragon and I really can't quite figure out why... I'm always either like two turns behind. So what's up with that? I keep thinking I'm doing decently at it only to find I'm not. So it is good because it still keeps me thinking a lot; it's not just a game I have a set strategy to play and then just leave it to chance whether I win or not.