But as Jesse Ventura once taught me, almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Here we are ready to blog once more so let us begin.
Work continues to be on the crazy side as we explore our new computer environment. There remain plenty of details to be ironed out and new factors come out every day. I have a new group to train this week and that will be it until next month when the next wave of employees return to our sector. I’m eager for the training phase to be complete so things can settle down some.
Even though it was extremely unlikely to happen, I was hoping that WWE would shake things up at least a little with the Roadblock Network Special. Instead, everything is exactly the same as before the show aired. Granted, it’s really only a televised house show, but if they want to make the specials feel…SPECIAL, it wouldn’t hurt to actually have something big happen.
Last year, my mom and I went to see a Montreal Canadiens playoff game. That day we dropped in to Carta Magica and my mom bought her first hobby game: NHL Power Play Team-Building Card Game. It’s a new implementation of Cryptozoic’s Cerebus deck-building game engine, much like the DC Comics Deck-Building Game (Cryptozoic could stand to do a better job naming their games), which I own. At the time, my mother was intimidated by the rule book so the game remained dormant in her closet until last Friday when I pulled it out. The Cerebus engine is similar to Dark Gothic only with less resource types to worry about. I was able to draw parallels between both games to teach my mom how to play. NHL Power Play is a clean game that plays quickly. It’s a shame it wasn’t successful enough to warrant expansions. It’d have been cool to have new players.
I backed a new game on Kickstarter and it’s a big one. Masmorra: Dungeons of Arcadia is a randomized dungeon crawler with special dice used to represent the monsters. It’s by Cool Mini Or Not, so I know it’s a quality product. I can’t wait to get it in November.
That’s all for this week. Have a good seven and we’ll do this again next Monday. Carja V.