Warm and humid, with a chance of thunderstorms.\u00a0 Joy.\u00a0 Yesterday got pretty hot and humid by late afternoon and stayed hot.\u00a0 It was 80F at midnight with 80%RH.<\/p>\n
Spent the day playing games with my wife and kids.\u00a0\u00a0 Cooked dinner.\u00a0 Lamb was delicious, potatoes got raves from the whole family, and even the chocolate dipped (store bought) strawberry dessert was just right.<\/p>\n
Catan is an interesting game.\u00a0 I think that there is a whole bunch of stuff to discover about the seemingly simple gameplay if everyone knows what they’re doing.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a smaller game than Ticket to Ride, and I didn’t enjoy the first game as much (I compare them because the game mechanics are very similar, except for the trading part.)\u00a0 I really like Ticket to Ride so the bar is set pretty high.\u00a0 I know that Catan is a phenomenon, but I don’t understand why yet.\u00a0 I’ll give it a couple more plays to see if it really appeals to us.\u00a0 Board games and card games can be important preps, depending on your disaster, and they are great for other more traditional reasons too.\u00a0 My family played a ton of games when we were kids, and even through college, whenever we were home together.\u00a0 We still play games when we get together.<\/p>\n
This week I have auction stuff to get together, truck repairs to get organized, all the normal household stuff to do, and surely some work getting ready for the rip and replace at my client’s house.\u00a0 Add a sore back and a stiff neck, and I’m gonna have some fun.<\/p>\n
In the category of ‘do as I say, not as I do’, address little things when they are still little.\u00a0\u00a0 Clean up all those niggling little details.\u00a0 Stop procrastinating if the job is at all important.\u00a0 Get all the ducks in a row.\u00a0 You’ll feel better, and you’ll be in a better place for whatever comes.<\/p>\n
Now I better go address some of those little things that are stacking up, so that I can get back to stacking up the stuff I think we’ll need.<\/p>\n
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Warm and humid, with a chance of thunderstorms.\u00a0 Joy.\u00a0 Yesterday got pretty hot and humid by late afternoon and stayed hot.\u00a0 It was 80F at midnight with 80%RH.<\/p>\n
Spent the day playing games with my wife and kids.\u00a0\u00a0 Cooked dinner.\u00a0 Lamb was delicious, potatoes got raves from the whole family, and even the chocolate dipped (store bought) strawberry dessert was just right.<\/p>\n
Catan is an interesting game.\u00a0 I think that there is a whole bunch of stuff to discover about the seemingly simple gameplay if everyone knows what they’re doing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n