Entries Tagged as 'Gaming'

Rummikub at the House Meeting

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Our house meeting—Claire, Deirdre, RV and me—saw my worst ever Rummikub draw: 12 turns of drawing for 26 tiles before I had opening melds totaling 25 points. Notice the point at which RV only had one tile. The second photograph, as taken with my iPhone, was the [...]


Retirement

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I need never again play Blobette, a Java version of Puyo-Puyo. Yesterday, I scored 543,390,000 from some absurd ~12x combo. For reference, my high score previously was around 750,000. Maybe I will actually work now?


Weekend Recap, Part I

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My weekends never turn out as expected or planned. I always hope for productivity and progress on the house and exercise and cooking but never follow through as much as I should. I should have painted the living room. I should have cut down trees in the backyard. I should have fixed up the main [...]


Dark Tower!

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eBay Link The Dark Tower game was one of the great joys of my childhood. We did not even own the game—I only was able to play it when we visited my Tio Cacho and Aunt Carolyn in DC on Christmas or other holidays. Finally, the tower died one Christmas, much to my despair. I think [...]


Weekend in San Diego, Part II

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So, we arrived Saturday night at the house that AC, Amber, Kat, Sean, and Nico are renting together. The house is beautiful—it has mostly white tile floors and white walls. It certainly is not as large as our house but it has a pool and its kitchen totally destroys ours. The kitchen is big and [...]


Weekend in San Diego

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Friday night, Mark and I left Claremont for San Diego, intending to play some games, visit some friends, and enjoy the time away. Mark got an automatic transmission car from his no-longer-able-to-drive grandmother so we took that, allowing us both to drive for the weekend. We headed down the 57 to the 5 and hit [...]