Sat Feb 15 2025

Sleep 0345 to 1045, 30m nap (7-1/2 hours)

• In my hotel room the toilet water tank wasn’t filling so I took a look and saw they have a Flushmate 500 which is designed to fit in the water tank, use less water, but release with pressure assist. Interesting since my master bath toilet has a leisurely flush so pressure assist would be nice.
• Csr and I walked to Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina for lunch. A bit pricey but I had the Enchilada del Mar and it was delicious.
• When we got back Corina and Cjr were here. We played Wiz War and got two turns done (it took a while to setup and recollect the rules) when W3 arrived and Teddy ran over the game board scattering all the pieces.
• Dinner at the hotel restaurant. Jonathan was yelling and one the other patrons yelled sort of at him then complained to his “parent” (actually Csr). He did have a point in that Jonathan was louder than a normal loud kid.
• Rainbow was good. Pick, DS, DW, Csr, Corina, mjm, Tom H, Eric R. For once mostly the Erzo gamers so it was a good conversation. I had two drinks and had napped beforehand so able to stay awake.

Sun Feb 16 2025

Sleep 0345 to 1045 (7 hours)

• Cjr was sick this morning and threw up. Corina took him home.
• Csr and I ate lunch at The Roasted Crab. Catfish Basket is so good.
• Relaxing a bit. Played some DDO with Csr.
• We got into one DDC game, #740 Alien - Fate of the Nostromo. It’s a simpler board game based on the first Alien movie. Five players, two who knew the game and three beginners. Took us an hour and we did manage to win.
• Dinner with W3 at Pho Hot & Jazen Tea. Had Beef Stew Pho and it was good. Hot Milk Tea not so good.
• Played Gloomhaven with DS, DW, Csr. We finished a scenario and did another one.

Mon Feb 17 2025

Sleep 0330 to 1115 (7-3/4 hours)

• For Monday sessions two were sort of empty. #851 Boney Goes to Sea (2 of 5 seats filled) is using the miniatures game Sails of Glory. Looks cool but starts at 0900 and runs 6 hours.
• #841 Overtake: Race Manager (0 of 5 seats filled) is run by the designer Jay Leone. It’s an F1 racing team manager game. Still in prototype I think but really don’t like how much AI art he’s using even though it’ll eventually be real art.
• I was mostly VPNed into my network while at DDC. iPad, MBP, iPhone. OpenVPN was good about reconnecting when waking up from sleep. Performance seemed just fine and could watch videos fine. Also played DDO and Gloomhaven without problems (Gloomhaven had issues but not with the VPN I think).
• Csr and I went to lunch with W3 at Banh Mi & Bowl. Had a garlic shrimp banh mi ($13) which was quite ok.
• That’s it for DunDraCon this year. Mostly eating this time.

Tue Feb 18 2025

Sleep 0200 to 1200 (10 hours)

• Was coughing and probably a bit feverish last night so I tried to sleep a long time.

Wed Feb 19 2025

Sleep 0015 to 1100 (10-3/4 hours)

• Feeling better today.
• iPhone 16E announced. This replaces the SE as the lowest cost iPhone, though it’s $600 for 128 GB storage.

Thu Feb 20 2025

Sleep 0215 to 1030 (8-1/4 hours)

• Bundle of Holding has a Mutant Crawl Classics resurrected bundle. If you can I’d wait for a similar Humble Bundle. They’ve done MCC stuff before with more adventures at a cheaper price.
• Still slightly sick.

Fri Feb 22 2025

Sleep 0215 to 1030 (8-1/4 hours)

• Today I feel fine. Probably not if I exert myself too much.
• DDO: Dave S, Dave W and I did the three Lordsmarch 12 quests at R1.