Mar 082016
Carja
Mar 082016
Mar 082016
Hi there. Thanks for dropping by. It’s that time of week again. Time to blog. So what’s there to say this week?
I logged in today and saw that I had 163 comments waiting for approval. How many of those were spam? You guessed it, 163. There were a LOT of clock hand links…Maybe I’m attracting the tinker spam. I need to find a more efficient way of deleting spam. Next time I’ll have to remember to check if WordPress allows for more than 20 comments to be displayed at once.
There was no Bandit Baby strip on Friday. I’ll post last week’s installment after I finish this blog entry. I don’t get home on Fridays until after 10 and by then I’ve had plenty of time to forget and I never think to check over the weekend. I need to get it done in the morning.
Tuesday was another fun experience. I introduced Swords and Strongholds to somebody and got to try out two new games, one of which I’ve owned for years but have never played. I can’t remember the name of the first game, but it was a nice little card game with some interesting combos. The second was Small World. It’s a LOT longer than I thought and I got home WAY late. How fortunate that there was a snow storm to keep me from having to go in to work the next day. I also met some potential opponents for X-Wing Miniatures.
Our hosts are on vacation this week so they asked some of us to fill in and teach our favorite games. It’s cool that they included me. I really feel like a part of the group. I’ll be playing Tokaido and Dice Town.
I got to try the Dark Gothic expansion on Friday. It’s a smaller stand-alone set designed for 2-3 players (the original set accommodates 2-6 players). They did a really good job of cranking up the pressure in the game. With the original set we’ve never gotten close to losing to the Shadows. In the 3 games we played with just the expansion, we still managed to pull through, but it was a lot closer. The new cards are rough but I like that. We’ll have to see how mixing both sets together goes. I’m wondering if it’ll dilute things too much. I might have to refine the deck for the optimal experience.
That’s all for this week. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.
Mar 032016
Mar 032016
Another missed deadline. I don’t know what’s happening. Sometimes I click Publish and it stalls (like Tuesday’s French comic) and others I just plain forget (like this post). Oh well. Better nate than lever.
BB-8 is Poe Dameron’s plucky droid navigator and companion. He’s entrusted with valuable information by Poe shortly before Poe gets captured by the First Order. The second great droid chase of the Saga is on! Where R2-D2’s vocals were said to be inspired by babies talking, BB-8 takes it to a new level and he’s adorable. I fully expected to roll my eyes at this gimmicky droid character, but I really like him. He’s supplanted both R2 and 3PO as my favorite droid character from the movies, though I still like Chopper from Rebels a great deal.
When I was first laying out this theme, I didn’t think I’d be able to include BB-8. His design is so unconventional I didn’t know how I could do something with it. But as I was finishing up with Skitter, I couldn’t think of another character to feature. I was already plumbing the depths with Ackbar (who I love but really he’s such an incidental character in the movie). I then came up with this idea for BB-8 and I think it’s my favorite.
That’s all for this week and this theme. Next week, something new. Come back to see the reveal. I’ll try to post it on time.