More Boardgames

Today I met up with Steve and Shanon to play boardgames and eat yummy food at a local comic/gaming store. We played a game called "Ascension" than none of us had played before. It is a fantasy card game where you accrue honor by acquiring heroes and defeating monsters through combinations of cards. It was fun even though I lost by a lot. Then Steve and I played "Wasabi", the sushi building game which I think I've mentioned before in this blog. We ordered in from a local Chinese/Japanese restaurant and I enjoyed an order of steamed shrimp dumplings.

Last night, I made another one of my giant Greek calzones using fresh jumbo shrimp from a local seafood store and raw goat & cow milk feta from the farmers' market. The owner of the seafood store was really nice and explained how to de-intestine (de-veining is a misnomer it turns out) the shrimp since I told him I'd never worked with them raw before. It felt very satisfying to cook them from scratch and they smelled so good that I couldn't resist trying one as soon as I'd pulled them out of the boiling water. Yum!

Elections, elections, elections!

If you live in a state that will be having primary elections tomorrow, please exercise your right to vote. I am about to research the last of the candidates I'll be voting on and am excited to cast my ballot. I have been doing a lot of work around the election as part of my job and will in fact be sitting at the polls tomorrow night in order to get local results. I can't wait. :)

Turkeys, Trivia, and Netbooks, Oh My!

Yesterday began with a flock of wild turkeys in our yard. Susan joined me at the kitchen window to watch them proceed up our driveway, across the road, and into the woods on the other side. I tried to get a picture but the batteries in my camera were dead.

Later on, I convinced Steve to join the 21st Century by purchasing a netbook. CVS had one on sale for $100 so it made it easy for him to dip his toe in the water. We charged it up last night and, next weekend, I'm going to introduce him to web browsers, Youtube, and email. Woo hoo!

Finally, Steve and I sat down last night to play Book Lovers' Trivial Pursuit. It was much harder than either of us thought, especially given that we both read a lot. I think the game was actually intended to be played by teams, the instructions suggest it can be ideal for 16 people to play at once. My category of expertise is Children's Literature if anyone is interested. ;) At 12:30am, after more than 2 1/2 hours of play, we called it quits without a winner.

Busy, busy, busy.

I've been doing a lot of work covering our state and local elections for my job and have been getting to be creative as well. Unfortunately, some of my creativity was channeled into creating a short memorial video for one of our volunteers who passed away a couple of weeks ago. He was an amazing man who, at 84, was an inspiration and a lot of fun to play games with.

I'm sitting here watching coverage of the U. S. Open and catching up on all the Facebook emails that I missed over the last year and a half or two. I got up early this morning and made French Toast for breakfast. Yummy! Then I did some chores before I headed out to spend a few hours in town. The Farmers' Market was a great place to pick up fresh produce. I ate my Asian Pear as a snack when I got home and it was tasty. Steve's here too so we might play some Magic in a bit.