Monday was Donald's party.
Christopher and I left at 11:30 but I had to go to the post office to
pick up a package. The line wasn't too bad but apparently everyone
wanted to do things that take a long time. The main branch has an
Automated Postal Center which is a machine that can do a lot of basic
post office functions. You can weigh packages, but boxes and tape, fill
out forms, and pay for postage. I suppose it's about as good as having
another teller.
Rowe, Shannon and Woo were there when we arrived. Donald had lots of
food out. They finished whatever game they were playing and then we
started a game of Cosmic Encounter, the Mayfair version with
expansions. Everyone had two powers and after a couple of hours we
remembered why this game takes forever to play. Probably would have
been much faster if we only had one power each.
Dave arrived during the game and after the game Shannon had to go. We
played a three-lap race of Formula De, the Belgium track. We decided to
do two teams with Dave, Eric and Christopher in one team. It was a
pretty cool race. Other than Eric being in the lead or near it for
almost the whole race, everybody else jockeyed and shifted positions.
Right at the last turn before the finish line Dave blew up. Then I went
for the win and spun out. Eric had unfortunately shifted down too far
and it was up to a last die roll between Chris, Donald and Woo.
Christopher rolled high and won, I came in fifth.
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Eric left and we hung out
for an hour then went to a theatre and watched "House of Flying
Daggers". Nobody was all that impressed with the movie. Woo lamented
the lack of plot (although he also said that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon" didn't have enough plots either). Sweet and I thought they
built up for a big battle that they didn't show. Everybody who saw it
thought "Hero" was better.
I dropped Dave off at his brother-in-law's place in Richmond. He gave
me some Christmas presents which, when I got home, are three videos:
Speed Racer, Transformers, and G Force. Must be revenge for what I got
him for Christmas. Well, it's not that bad just totally unexpected.
Don't know if I'll get the chance to see them anytime soon though.
With his newly-aquired car Christopher plans on showing up for Saturday
games. Partly he wants to play and partly he wants to start moving a
few boxes each week. I guess I'm a bit worried about all the driving
he's going to be doing. It can be dangerous. And yet I would have had
little problem doing the same thing when I was his age. Now I know how
my parents felt when I insisted on driving at 02:00 in a storm to visit
them.
After 4-1/2 months I've run 10 session of my GURPS BattleTech campaign.
That's like less than half the time. Way too low. So I'm going to
change my campaign policy. I still want players who start an adventure
to end the adventure. But I'll start running more offset adventures.
For example this week Donald is not here so we'll postpone finishing
the current BattleTech battle and move on to a GURPS adventure. As long
as I don't have too many adventures going on at once it won't be too
bad.
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