Games Day 04.14.2018

Three games played:

Gloomhaven, a dungeon crawl co-op game.  This is the 4th time we’ve attempted the first scenario, and this time we succeeded!

Han Solo Card Game, an adaptation of the in-universe game Sabacc; it even comes with a pair of dice similar to the ones hanging in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon

Dice Throne, which came down to the Paladin (Glenn) vs. the Barbarian (Dave).  The Pyromancer (Nelson) and Moon Elf (me) were both knocked out of the game earlier.

Solo Friday

I made a quick trip to Target this morning, hoping to find the Funko Pop! 10″ Porg.  Nope.

Instead, I got sucked into the hype for Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Behold!

The Funkos I did manage to find…

Han and Chewie

Hey, how they get in here?

Moments

There was a brief moment, shortly after I took this picture, as I sat in my seat, alone, at the ball park, with an eerie almost silence around me, when I felt something.

Joy.

Bliss.

Happiness.

More so than I’d felt in quite a long time.

I almost started to cry.

And then we all stood for the National Anthem.

MoviePass: The End?

We’ll see.

On Wednesday I saw that they had charged me for another month, even though I had cancelled my account last month.  I sent them a note via their ‘contact us’ link on their site through the phone app.

A while later there was a canned reply in my email explaining how to cancel my account.  Arrgh.

Today I saw that they had charged me a SECOND time, so I left another note via their chat option on their app.

I also checked their Facebook account, and found a not-toll free number for their customer service line.

I called, and immediately I was speaking to a real live person.  I explained that I had been charged twice and had cancelled my account in March.

After about 18 minutes of being on hold, and without and hold music, the person came back on the line three times, twice to say that they were working on my refund, and a final time to tell me that the refund had been processed, and that my account had been cancelled.

I guess we’ll find out how true that is next month.

I have nothing against MoviePass, I just find that I get more out of Cinemark’s Movie Club.  I can’t see a movie every day, but 20% off concessions is a good perk.

Ready Player One

I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

It’s been a while since I read the book (which I loved) but having been raised in the 1980s, this was a joy to watch.

Can’t say much more without spoiling.

Baseball Opening Day 2018

I started my day off by running to the grocery store to pick up hot dogs and buns, the only food you need for Opening Day.

I also picked up chips and soda.

At home I steamed the dogs and ate a couple as the first game of the day started (Cubs @ Marlins).

A half hour later I switched over to the Cards @ Mets game, and began playing my table top baseball games.  One game turned out bad, the other good.

And the Mets beat the Cards.

Now waiting for the Giants @ Dodgers game in a couple of hours.

Welcome back, baseball.  I missed you.

Games Overload, Again

So Monday I acquired, through various means:

  • Necromunda Underhive
  • Leaving Earth
  • Top Secret New World Order
  • the 1987 MLB season for Payoff Pitch Baseball

Aside from sorting the 1987 season, opening the Necromunda box, and printing out character sheets for Top Secret NWO, I haven’t had a chance to start looking at the rules for the three new games.

And I want to learn them all immediately.

Ack.