I have no willpower when it comes to game stores

[dr4b]

So, today I did something incredibly retarded.

I went to the Wizards of the Coast game store at Northgate.

Okay, that doesn't really sound retarded, right? Let me rephrase:

I went to the Wizards of the Coast game store at Northgate, which was having a 20% or more off everything in the store because they're closing all the WOTC game stores.

Hmm... not retarded enough yet? But wait, there's more!

I went to the Wizards of the Coast game store at Northgate, which was having a 20% or more off everything in the store because they're closing all the WOTC game stores. I then proceeded to spend around $230 on board games, which means that despite the fact that I guess I "saved" around $60, in reality, I just spent most of my Christmas money.

I got some games (most of which I've played, but didn't own) -
-- Settlers of Catan Cities & Knights
-- Settlers of Catan Card Game
-- Settlers Card Game Expansions
-- Settlers of the Stone Age
-- Settlers of Catan Travel Version (it's the CUTEST THING EVER)
-- Pirateer
-- Domaine (A Klaus Teuber game, I'd never seen it before - anyone played this?)
-- Hello Kitty Uno
-- Hacker (yeah, I am the Net Ninja)
-- Deluxe Cribbage (because I'd never owned a board before. I wonder if any of my friends out here even know how to play Cribbage?)

I also got some dice and dice bags but that's neither here nor there.

I debated a few of the D&D books, since hey, 20% off, but I'm not sure how many of them I want. I might go back at some point. I *think* it may still be cheaper for me to get those from Amazon.

Hi, I'm retarded.

So after that I went to Best Buy and I spent the rest of my Christmas money on a new hard drive, which I already mentioned. Then I came home, and Eli and I went to Blue C Sushi for kaiten sushi a bit after that. I really love that place sometimes, they just always seem to have a lot of what I want on the belt. Then I came home and sailed back a ship I'd had out for memorizing Ruby maps in Puzzle Pirates, and I cleaned up my room a bit because otherwise I have no room to take apart my computer anyway. By the time I had enough space cleaned up, it was around 11:30pm, and I figured, BLAH, probably a bad call to start fiddling with the hard drive and installing OSes and whatever else at this point.

So tomorrow when I get home from work I'll probably start working on my computer. Whee! Thanks for all the feedback about the hard drive. I feel a bit less stupid for freaking out about it, and kind of excited about the prospect of having cool new stuff on my computer. (While I'm at it, I'm going to also upgrade my computer to XP at long last, since I found the XP upgrade disc that nickjong got me at the CMU computer store last year. I also found some of Eli's software CDs that apparently had been sitting in my room since we moved to Seattle. Isn't that kind of scary?)

Comments

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

All that can really be said to this is....

"YAY SETTLERS!"

[chite.livejournal.com]

Yeah, now that you mention it I need to go do the same. I'll miss the WOTC store, but I need to say my goodbyes.

[blk]

Cribbage! I like cribbage. I used to play it all the time.

Of course, I don't live out there. Drat.

[daming.livejournal.com]

Is WOTC going out of business or are thys just closing their actual stores?

Agh!! SoC card game...I would have gladly sold you my copy for like a dollar....

Domaine is a remake of Lowenherz or so I've heard.

My game store had a great sale over Xmas, buy one get one free...but I had no money :(

[nykkel.livejournal.com]

Just the stores are going out of business.

Oh, and Deanna's mention of sushi reminds me -- Phaedrus told me that he thinks the kaiten sushi place in the University District may have closed down. Can't verify this one way or the other, though.

WotC Stores

[tesposit.livejournal.com]

Too bad you weren't in Exton Square Mall. Their store had a 30% off. I could have spent so much money, but I didn't, and now the store is gone... so sad. I liked that mall because of the store.

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

Hah, I was there too. They were sold out of the Settlers core game, so I didn't invest in any of the add-ons (though I thought about getting the card game).

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. :-)

Haven't played Domaine, but I have played Lowenherz, of which Domaine is supposedly a slightly simplified reworking. Likely to be a very neat game.

[dr4b]

The only add-on I saw was Cities and Knights, and they didn't have the 5-6 expansion thereof. I've got normal settlers and seafarers and the 5-6's though, so it was just adding to the collection to get this. They did have the Settlers travel game, which is the basic game, though, and it's really cool looking!

The card game is pretty fun for a 2-player game. I really ought to find someone to play it with...

[dr4b]

Oh, they may have been closed last week, but not permanently. Katy mentioned it in her journal, what the chef said (from a friends-only post but I see no harm in repasting this):

They will be closed Dec. 28 - Jan. 4 (this was posted on a sign, too - it's reportedly due to kitchen renovations).

They will be closed every Sunday next year, so he and his wife will have a break one day of the week.

[pauldf.livejournal.com]

heh. I'm a cribbage fan. It's been ages (> 10 years) since I've played, but I at least live closer than blk does.