tuesday before carnival and i'm frantic of course

[dr4b]

Today I went to work and then I went home and then I went to Megan and Josh's house. We were supposed to RPG but Megan and Heidi had book group so we didn't. Instead, Justin and Josh and Cory and I ordered pizza and played board games all night.

First we played Puerto Rico, which I haven't played since November. It was fun, but I need to learn how to play it well. Josh and Justin tied for the win with 26 points, and I had 23. Hm. Then we got out Starfarers, which was really wacky and skewed thanks to numbers. Josh and I both totally outfitted our ships with tons of crap (he had 11 mods at the end when he won, I had 14). It was pretty damned close, but we KEPT ROLLING 5's. Grumble.

Went home, and finished doing my Sakuracon 2003 pictures. For now you can find them at http://www.dr4b.org/pictures/sakuracon2003/ but I just nuked my entire picture archive aside from them. I wish people would respect my requests to not post and link and steal my pictures. I'm gonna figure out some good way to password protect them shortly...

Umm... as for where we're staying during Carnival, I gotta talk to people again tomorrow. I've done SUCH a bad job planning this trip because of how busy I've been with crap lately.

Comments

[puuj.livejournal.com]

You guys can stay with me!

[rmitz.livejournal.com]

Wow. How did Puerto Rico end? Those are really low points values.

[sorakirei.livejournal.com]

I'll be around for carnival. I can't wait to see TMBG again. It's a shame the weather is gonna be so sucky. It was so spectacular last year. Stupid winter. *kick*

[brkdwn-palace.livejournal.com]

Do you like Puerto Rico? I have not played it, but reviews I have seen lead me to think it's a good one out there. As for starfarers, do you think the games become repetitous each time like I do in that the placement of the unknown planet numbers never change all that much each game. I got to work on a way to make the game more interesting. IMO

[dr4b]

4-player game and it ended when we ran out of citizens... I think we skipped a few decent Captain phases, and nobody took a Hacienda except Josh.

[dr4b]

Yeah, I really like it, though I don't get to play it often. We're hoping to remedy that (and I bet we'll play it a few times during Carnival, as my Austin friends are rather fond of it).

I love Starfarers. The encounters are just so silly and cool, and the unknown planet numbers change enough for me.. I mean, sure, you know that 5/7 red planets are bad, the good ones are 10's, etc, but somehow I think it still stays plenty of fun. And I like beefing up my ship with guns and boosters and running people down, even when I don't win. (I usually do well enough at the game to enjoy it though.)

The other size of the coin

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing the pictures with us. The costumes are really cool and I'm glad to have seen them.

Just the letting you know it's appricated that you share this stuff with us and it's not just people stealing your stuff.

Thank you.

[alternakittyn.livejournal.com]

Hopefully we get to see each other sometime!! There's a party at the house friday night, so if you need to get ahold of us, the number's 412-521-9459.