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Pie for breakfast
Dec. 26th, 2005 09:52 amLest those of use departing for the west coast this afternoon leave an undue burden of pie on those remaining, I shoulder my share of the burden by having pumpkin and apple pie for breakfast.
By nebulous mutual agreement, gifts were somewhat more restrained than last year (with the exception of the nephew, who seems to double his store of video games with each holiday). I received a nice big coffee-table book on the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, some candle-making equipment, a Paul McCartney CD, the usual assortment of calendar and magazine subscription and edibles, and a bookstore gift certificate.
New games that needed to be play tested included "Apples to Apples", some complex historic game involving building things in Saint Petersburg, and Fluxx. This last is a game I was introduced to at the dead dog party at Darkovercon and within five minutes I had decided that someone in my family needed to own a copy of this game -- it didn't matter much who. I ended up giving it to the nephew because the Youngest Brother turned out not to own his own expansion set for Settlers of Catan and that needed to be remedied. My prediction of wild success for Fluxx was accurate. I understand that the nephew woke his father up at some ungodly hour this morning to play a few more hands.
We fly out at mid-afternoon from Bangor and so far it looks like the weather will hold. Rain, but not cold enough to freeze. (This, after yesterday morning's forecast involved an ice storm for last night that fortunately failed to materialize.)
By nebulous mutual agreement, gifts were somewhat more restrained than last year (with the exception of the nephew, who seems to double his store of video games with each holiday). I received a nice big coffee-table book on the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, some candle-making equipment, a Paul McCartney CD, the usual assortment of calendar and magazine subscription and edibles, and a bookstore gift certificate.
New games that needed to be play tested included "Apples to Apples", some complex historic game involving building things in Saint Petersburg, and Fluxx. This last is a game I was introduced to at the dead dog party at Darkovercon and within five minutes I had decided that someone in my family needed to own a copy of this game -- it didn't matter much who. I ended up giving it to the nephew because the Youngest Brother turned out not to own his own expansion set for Settlers of Catan and that needed to be remedied. My prediction of wild success for Fluxx was accurate. I understand that the nephew woke his father up at some ungodly hour this morning to play a few more hands.
We fly out at mid-afternoon from Bangor and so far it looks like the weather will hold. Rain, but not cold enough to freeze. (This, after yesterday morning's forecast involved an ice storm for last night that fortunately failed to materialize.)
