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Sniffling and gaming
Sep. 26th, 2004 10:08 amThere's been a cold going around work that I caught. It's not a very consistent cold; the woman who runs the mini-cafeteria downstairs said that people seemed to feel terrible on days one and three, and sure enough, I felt pretty out of it on both Wednesday and Friday. Today I think I'm feeling better, which is good. No plans, so maybe I'll try to get outside (again).
Got dragged biking yesterday. Not the greatest or worst of ideas, I only made it up the Minuteman to the Lexington line before saying "nope, I'm stopping here for 10 minutes then going home", so ten miles, at least. Ran into someone with Presta valves wanting to borrow my bike pump. In theory my pump should work with both kinds of valves and I switched the magic adapter for him, but it didn't seem to be terribly successful.
After ET dinner, a small mob of us went to Somerville to play games. I made the factory strategy work in Puerto Rico finally! (And noticing that the Eschaton was nigh, decided to buy a large building instead of a harbor, but I was ahead by enough points at the end of the game that that didn't actually matter.) Got my ass handed to me in Cities and Nights! (My initial build was on the 8-4 of wood on the wood port, which would have been great if either (a) 8s got rolled or (b) the 8 didn't spend half the game robbered; plus, I got seriously scrod the first time the pirates landed, and produced neither rock nor wheat, so I ended the game with five settlements and only like two slots on the little flip-card, where there were two metropolises out there at game end.) Sick and helpless in game == not good; oh well.
Got dragged biking yesterday. Not the greatest or worst of ideas, I only made it up the Minuteman to the Lexington line before saying "nope, I'm stopping here for 10 minutes then going home", so ten miles, at least. Ran into someone with Presta valves wanting to borrow my bike pump. In theory my pump should work with both kinds of valves and I switched the magic adapter for him, but it didn't seem to be terribly successful.
After ET dinner, a small mob of us went to Somerville to play games. I made the factory strategy work in Puerto Rico finally! (And noticing that the Eschaton was nigh, decided to buy a large building instead of a harbor, but I was ahead by enough points at the end of the game that that didn't actually matter.) Got my ass handed to me in Cities and Nights! (My initial build was on the 8-4 of wood on the wood port, which would have been great if either (a) 8s got rolled or (b) the 8 didn't spend half the game robbered; plus, I got seriously scrod the first time the pirates landed, and produced neither rock nor wheat, so I ended the game with five settlements and only like two slots on the little flip-card, where there were two metropolises out there at game end.) Sick and helpless in game == not good; oh well.
