Blueberry pancake breakfast! Yum. What more can be said? The in-laws came over and we devoured the pancakes, after a visit to the garden. Too hot to do much outside.

Well, today I slept midday, just to regain some lost time during the past week – I intended to do a 30 minute quickie, but ended up grabbing quite the 2-hour snooze. I spooked BHK and Amy a smidgen when I awoke, as I ascended the creaky stairs to the loft while they were watching Kolchak (both the old and the new series) – I creeped them out during the “cult leader” episode of the 2005 series.

We got a lot of parlor games in over the afternoon and evening, paused in the middle with a fantastic dinner at Mama Lucias with the in-laws. They were really on top of their business tonight – all of the food was delicious, arrived quickly, was presented well, and service was right on the money. BHK and I did halfsies on Tortellini and peas with sun-dried tomatoes in Alfredo sauce supplemented by eggplant parm and spaghetti. It was all done just the way I like, and I was in gustatory heaven.

Games played were:

Lunch Money – didn’t go over so well… maybe with a different crowd it’d do better. I liked it, but the gals weren’t into the combat.

Chez Goth – not popular with Amy, but BHK liked it.  i think I liked the color more than the actual rule set. 2 games of that, I won one, and BHK got one. I’d try it again, but I think Looney Labs has spoiled us a bit.

Chrononauts – I think that was the clear winner of the week, actually. We played two games, and I *really* want to do a few alternate nexus points in history versions.

Aquarius – always a fun, quickie game. I think we got 3 games or so in before we had to head out to supper.

Pirates – 2 games, 40 points each. BHK played the 2nd game with a pair of Crabs that ended up at the bottom of Davy Jones’ Locker. We didn’t get to fight Amy’s giant shark, but she did quite well with human-crewed vessels, winning the last game by whittling one of my 6-masted junks down to kindling. Playing over appletinis didn’t slow her down a bit. My maggie moo’s cake-batter w/brownie-fueled aggression didn’t help me in the end. (I blame the scoop of chocolate banana for throwing off my internal clock… or maybe not.)

Next thought – Car wars… card game, and if it sticks, evolution to the wargame.

1 year ago – starting yoga, newtcam pics, visiting pals, comics, wrestler name, Jonathan Coulton – Bigfoot & Leonard Nimoy, cool cartoon, spoof caller id service,

2 years ago – met the Lisas, strawberry shortcake, Kamandi, cat cartoons, I remind JL of Rob from High Fidelity, meme-y thing, out with Dan

3 years ago – turtlenecks, skinbags, touchscreen, firestarter, recent tunes, oomiaq, walkies, manatees

4 years ago – tour guides, politics, bollywood, starmark, windows psa

5 years ago – swastika, dreams, newt, birds of prey, lizard droppings, zebrelle

6 years ago -WoG III, Chai, bro, coloring book, lj down

7 years ago -no-thang

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