weekend in brief
Nov. 18th, 2001 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioThe service Friday night went pretty well, except the rabbi skipped some stuff that I know, apparently having forgotten that I know it. (I'm talking about a couple of the introductory psalms.) So next time I should refresh his memory beforehand.
Meeting Susan (the conversion candidate I mentioned before) was neat. She joined us for dinner and it was a very pleasant evening.
Saturday we had some people over to play a board game called History of the World. I've only played once before. It was fun, but I got whumped. Oh well. World domination just isn't in my blood, I guess. After that we played a couple of shorter games, including one based on Starfleet Battles that the publishers say is "simple enough that your girlfriend will play". (Yeah, they pegged that right with respect to SFB. I've played several times, don't see what the fuss is about, am not interested in combat at the level of the individual torpedo or the individual armor plate, and probably won't play again.) This game pretty much lived up to that claim; I think I'm the sort of person they meant, and I'd probably play again. The main limitations for me are actually vision-based, not rules-based. (It's a card game with too much different crap on too many cards to see easily across a dining-room table.)
I hate it when my vision dictates which games I can reasonably play, but oh well. I pretty much gave up on Magic: The Gathering when the card set went from 300 different cards to order of 2000 *and* they started publishing many of those 2000 cards with up to 4 different kinds of artwork. I rely on the art to track what's what, as I sure as heck can't read the text. (On the bright side, I sold my 20 most valuable Magic cards on eBay last year for close to $1000 total, which is much more than I ever spent on the game.)
This morning Temple Sinai had its annual book fair, so I went shopping. Book reviews later. :-)
Tonight a bunch of us went to see the Harry Potter movie. I have not read the books, by the way. (I'm not opposed; I've just had no motivation to do so thus far.) I thought the movie was cute and a fun way to spend a few hours, but it didn't wow me or motivate me to read the books.
Meeting Susan (the conversion candidate I mentioned before) was neat. She joined us for dinner and it was a very pleasant evening.
Saturday we had some people over to play a board game called History of the World. I've only played once before. It was fun, but I got whumped. Oh well. World domination just isn't in my blood, I guess. After that we played a couple of shorter games, including one based on Starfleet Battles that the publishers say is "simple enough that your girlfriend will play". (Yeah, they pegged that right with respect to SFB. I've played several times, don't see what the fuss is about, am not interested in combat at the level of the individual torpedo or the individual armor plate, and probably won't play again.) This game pretty much lived up to that claim; I think I'm the sort of person they meant, and I'd probably play again. The main limitations for me are actually vision-based, not rules-based. (It's a card game with too much different crap on too many cards to see easily across a dining-room table.)
I hate it when my vision dictates which games I can reasonably play, but oh well. I pretty much gave up on Magic: The Gathering when the card set went from 300 different cards to order of 2000 *and* they started publishing many of those 2000 cards with up to 4 different kinds of artwork. I rely on the art to track what's what, as I sure as heck can't read the text. (On the bright side, I sold my 20 most valuable Magic cards on eBay last year for close to $1000 total, which is much more than I ever spent on the game.)
This morning Temple Sinai had its annual book fair, so I went shopping. Book reviews later. :-)
Tonight a bunch of us went to see the Harry Potter movie. I have not read the books, by the way. (I'm not opposed; I've just had no motivation to do so thus far.) I thought the movie was cute and a fun way to spend a few hours, but it didn't wow me or motivate me to read the books.
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Date: 2001-11-19 06:44 am (UTC)As for Harry Potter, it was fairly faithful to the spirit of the book, but it left out a LOT of character development which was understandable if a little disappointing. The books are a quick fun read - I wouldn't let the movie keep you from enjoying the books. :-)