After an extensive lunch with Morris at Folks spent discussing game ideas (which may or may not ever see the light of day — this is not to sound mysterious, but realistic), I dropped by Target on the way up to the mountains and purchased Risk. Tonight, after dinner, the whole family played. Five Prebles […]
Chap and I saw The Shins tonight in the mecca of irony - Little Five Points - at my favorite venue in Atlanta, Variety Playhouse. Surrounded by trendy college freshmen wearing cheap button-ups and sporting meticulously messed-up hair we waited for The Shins to come on stage. The curtain had closed after the […]
After three full days of working at the convention, getting together with Chap and Colin for blackjack, and then later with Cindy joining us at dinnertime (9:30), Wednesday night in Las Vegas felt a lot like vacation. It wasn’t, of course. There was still Thursday - the final day of the show - […]
A nice weekend, all in all: “Hitchhiker’s Guide” on Friday with Joel, dinner with Morris & Nichole (and a relentless mariachi band) on Saturday, and then Italian with Jess on Sunday. Not bad atall, although even with a film adaptation of Douglas Adams’ masterpiece in my system, my capacity for nerddom was severely limited: […]
