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cellioThis has been a lazy, relaxing weekend. It's good to have those every now and then.
Shabbat was pleasant and low-key. Saturday night we went out to dinner at a restaurant near where Dani works, not realizing that there was a baseball game that night in the stadium a block away. Oops. Fortunately, we got out ahead of most of the traffic. I guess we need to pay attention to sports schedules if we want to go to that restaurant this summer.
Sunday Dani had friends over to play a new (to him) game, Republic of Rome. This was a group attempt to figure out the rules. I sat out for a few reasons: diplomacy/political games aren't really my thing (I don't like Diplomacy either), I wanted someone else to climb the learning curve first (the rules looked complicated), and I was concerned about not being able to see some of the small chits and doodads. Turns out this last isn't the concern I thought it was: no one could see them well enough. So I'd be on even ground. :-)
The premise of the game is that the players are playing factions in the Roman senate. You're trying to win (that is, achieve a certain level of influence, or failing that, lead a successful revolt), but if Rome fails everyone loses so you do have to pay attention to the common good. Rome fails if one of several things happens: too many concurrent wars, going bankrupt, losing popular support, and I think one other. At the end of Sunday's game, Rome was fighting five wars (badly), had negative income and almost no money, and had just seen the lynching of half the senate by angry mobs. Better luck next time, guys.
Sunday dinner was pleasant, and Ralph and Lori made a yummy turkey-pasta salad. (The secret ingredient in the dressing was dijon mustard, it turned out.) At one point I picked up Louie (one of the cats) and found that he's bigger than I thought he was; he definitely outweighs all non-Baldur cats in my house. And he's not the big one.
Tonight Gail is coming over after dinner for another exchange of Hebrew tutoring for painting help. She's a good painter, and I think she's ready to paint scrolls for baronial awards. Maybe we can queue up some over the summer and give them as a gift to the incoming royals.
Shabbat was pleasant and low-key. Saturday night we went out to dinner at a restaurant near where Dani works, not realizing that there was a baseball game that night in the stadium a block away. Oops. Fortunately, we got out ahead of most of the traffic. I guess we need to pay attention to sports schedules if we want to go to that restaurant this summer.
Sunday Dani had friends over to play a new (to him) game, Republic of Rome. This was a group attempt to figure out the rules. I sat out for a few reasons: diplomacy/political games aren't really my thing (I don't like Diplomacy either), I wanted someone else to climb the learning curve first (the rules looked complicated), and I was concerned about not being able to see some of the small chits and doodads. Turns out this last isn't the concern I thought it was: no one could see them well enough. So I'd be on even ground. :-)
The premise of the game is that the players are playing factions in the Roman senate. You're trying to win (that is, achieve a certain level of influence, or failing that, lead a successful revolt), but if Rome fails everyone loses so you do have to pay attention to the common good. Rome fails if one of several things happens: too many concurrent wars, going bankrupt, losing popular support, and I think one other. At the end of Sunday's game, Rome was fighting five wars (badly), had negative income and almost no money, and had just seen the lynching of half the senate by angry mobs. Better luck next time, guys.
Sunday dinner was pleasant, and Ralph and Lori made a yummy turkey-pasta salad. (The secret ingredient in the dressing was dijon mustard, it turned out.) At one point I picked up Louie (one of the cats) and found that he's bigger than I thought he was; he definitely outweighs all non-Baldur cats in my house. And he's not the big one.
Tonight Gail is coming over after dinner for another exchange of Hebrew tutoring for painting help. She's a good painter, and I think she's ready to paint scrolls for baronial awards. Maybe we can queue up some over the summer and give them as a gift to the incoming royals.
ROR
Date: 2003-05-26 05:43 pm (UTC)