Diet Stuff

Breakfast: Ham & Cheese, Spinach, Cucumber
Lunch: Chicken Thigh, Peanuts, Roasted Seaweed, Cucumber
Dinner: Skip

Gym: None, 28.8 miles

Clean: Half-assed 20/10

Spent all day achy, dizzy, grumpy and tired despite my previous night of 14 hours of sleep. Since resting and relaxing did no good yesterday, today I will be doing STUFF. Not sure which stuff I'm doign yet, but it'll be STUFF. Probably go to the Glean, storage unit, water park, library, McDonalds... anyplace and everyplace that has free air conditioning...

Figure that my "illness" might just be that I'm an incredibly pansyish Northerner who can't handle heat!

Last night I tossed and turned for hours, drifting in and out of consciousness. I would be asleep when suddenly I'd jolt awake with a BRILLIANT IDEA about how to make one of my games work (I'm always working on making awesome board and card games), and I'd think "Ugh I need to get up and write this down!" but then I'd drift back to sleep and... yeah, I think I forgot every single one of the ideas I had :(

So today, wherever I go, I'm taking a notepad and a pencil with me JUST IN CASE.

Cool Thievery

As has been a family tradition with us ever since before Molly was born, we went to Qdoba Mexican Grill tonight in order to steal their free air conditioning and occupy a table with our game playing for as many hours as possible while taking advantage of their free drink refill policy. In essence, we are paying $20 to rent a cold gaming table that comes with a free meal and unlimited drinks :)

Tonight we played "Chez Geek" for the first time, and I think I love it even though I lost to khristle. It feels and plays *exactly* like the type of game I like to make, and lets me know that there IS a market out there for games that can't really be "mastered" :)

We also played a new favorite of ours, a pirate-themed trick-taking game called "Walk The Plank". This game is always fun, but can be made SUPER-FUN if everybody speaks in Pirate-speak! We need a special pirate hat for next time, to designate who's the captain...

And of course we also played our all-time favorite family game, "Aquarius". Those folks at Looney Labs make some excellent games :)