Tag: Table Top Sports

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Hullo?

Oh, hey, a blog entry.

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The year’s been relatively the same as the previous year, just stuff happening.

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Big thing that I’ve been doing is 3D printing another (updated) Transport Delta.

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One thing that I’ve noticed is a shortage of Zero Sugar Pepsi.  Maybe I’m imagining it, but I can’t seem to find 20oz bottles of it anywhere.

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Is it baseball season yet?

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I seem to have lost my tabletop games mojo, even though I want to play stuff, I get stuck in indecisive mode, trying to decide what to play.

 

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Random

Two straight days of playing tabletop sports games (Red White & Blue Racin’ and Ball Park Baseball), I would love this to continue.

We’ll see.

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Let the record show that I made it almost 14 months between visits to McDonalds for breakfast.

I was lazy this morning, and impatient (didn’t want to wait in line for a bagel).

I felt kinda gross after I ate there.

Here’s hoping it’s a longer time until my next visit.

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This is the longest I’ve sat and watched the Daytona 500 in a while.

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My promotion to my current position at work has changed the way I look at a lot of things, and I’m not sure why.

I feel like a grown-up.

It’s weird, but that’s just how I feel.

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Maybe it’s because I turn 56 this week.

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So little time

I find myself with more things that I want to do with the same amount of time given to do them.

Which has never been enough time.

Gaming stuff, writing/artsy stuff, social stuff, family stuff, and other stuff.

It’ll all work itself out.

I think.

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Ramblings

I finally watched Crazy Rich Asians.  Good movie.

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Clean up continues around the house.  More trips to Goodwill are planned in the future.

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The 1967 San Francisco Giants replay is finally finished.  I’m moving on to the 1939 New York Giants replay and continuing the 1917 MLB replay.

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February is right around the corner, meaning my birthday is coming up.  This year it falls on a Saturday, and will be our monthly Games Night.

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TNT has started showing Rogue One almost every other day.

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I’ve been feeling crappy over the last few days, so much so that I’ve skipped my daily elliptical for a couple of days.

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I forgot to get a haircut this past weekend.

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I really do fear commitment.

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What to do?

When I get home tonight, do I set up one of the Leader games (Corsair, Hornet, Phantom) or a Sunday double header, Braves @ Giants, 1967?

I can probably play the double header tonight.

Any of the Leader games will probably be played over a couple of days.

And I found that I had been playing wrong, adding a phase that is only used in B-17 Leader.

I would include a round of homeward bound air/ground combat, which isn’t even listed in the sequence of play.

Whoops.

I was used to a phase like this because of playing B-17 Queen of the Skies for so many years, which requires a possible Luftwaffe intercept in every zone on the way back to base from the target.  Again, B-17 Leader has this step, the other games don’t.

Maybe this will speed up my games.  We’ll see.

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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.

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Weekend Recap

Finished reading “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck”.

Picked up the Infinity Gauntlet (prop).

Sorted/organized Massive Darkness and Rising Sun.

Got a couple of Infinity War Pop! figures from my sister.

Watched baseball on TV.

Continued the 1967 San Francisco Giants season replay.

Did my taxes.

Watched the Oscars.

Finished reading “The War of Jokes and Riddles”.

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Baseball Thoughts

Watching Ken Burns’ Baseball on MLB Network.

The commercials show that they’re doing MLB divisional previews, which I think may be premature, with the Winter Meetings coming up and Spring Training a couple of months away.

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If the Giants do not get Mike Stanton, maybe they should pick up free agents  Brandon Morrow and Curtis Granderson from the Dodgers.

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There I was, the black grandson of a slave, the son of a black sharecropper, part of a historic occasion, a symbolic hero to my people. The air was sparkling. The sunlight was warm. The band struck up the national anthem. The flag billowed in the wind. It should have been a glorious moment for me as the stirring words of the national anthem poured from the stands. Perhaps, it was, but then again, perhaps, the anthem could be called the theme song for a drama called The Noble Experiment. Today, as I look back on that opening game of my first world series, I must tell you that it was Mr. Rickey’s drama and that I was only a principal actor. As I write this twenty years later, I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
― Jackie Robinson, I Never Had It Made

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I do miss baseball.  As I do every year, after Thanksgiving Day.

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I’m gonna play a couple of games of my 1967 San Francisco Giants season replay.