Schlep schlep fish game schlep

[dmaze]

There was a proposal yesterday to try build-your-own-sushi for alums. So we went out to Fish Pier to get, well, fish. (This worked out well: a pound of fish pretty much exactly made maki for four fishatarians.) But the best way to get there was to take the Red Line to South Station, then the Silver Line to the World Trade Center station.

Silver Line: It's a Bus.
Silver Line: Putting the "High-Speed" back in "Mattapan High-Speed Trolley."
Silver Line: Going nowhere slower than ever before.
Silver Line: A bargain at $200 million a station.
Silver Line: Hey, buddy, got a spare $1 billion?
Silver Line: 60 feet of bus all to yourself.
Silver Line: Broken promises since 2002.

...so at any rate, from there we came back to our place, picked up huge swaths of games, and went out to Arlington to play said huge swaths of games. Except that, in the usual spirit of things, only one game out of the two bags (British Rails) actually got played. Won both San Juan (just like in Puerto Rico, it's all about having multiple big buildings) and Ticket to Ride (failed to get screwed out of LA, then drew some very valuable tickets that I was holding the cards to build). (Apparently TtR is pretty brutal with three, since all of the double connections turn into singles.) Was failing to draw appropriate tiles in four hands of Mah-Jongg. Was sleepy. Came home. Went to bed. Woke up to early. Posted to LiveJournal. Yeah.

Comments

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

So in other words it would have been faster to walk to the WTC station. Or taken one of the local buses...

[dmaze]

Well, it was at least faster than walking. (Almost certainly not faster than biking.) They've cleverly replaced all of the local busses with magic Silver Line busses (there are SL2 and SL3). So the options were "walk from South Station" or "use the new, um, spiffy bus", and the Silver Line is at least marginally better than walking a mile through the cold.

[unclenomer.livejournal.com]

Heh, played two games of TtR over the weekend with astra and her brother. First time we've played more than 2 player. We experienced two extremes in the game. The first game we all had tickets going through the center of the country. Astra got royally screwed and couldn't complete any contract through the center as her brother and I connected through there first. The second game was completely different. My tickets were all the frozen route through canada and the east coast. Astra had all center of
the country and her brother's tickets were all the south and west coast. In that game we could mostly avoid each other and it was quite close. So it's kind of hit or miss with three, but not really an optimal number to play with. It might work better with house rules where the middle of the country double routes are doubled, but the ones near the coasts are single.

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

Then DS1 soundly trounced us all at Settlers. It was great.