prog | battle beer

Reiner Knizia's Battle Line is a great game, even though Mel&c just beat me at it for the third time in a row. We have each played it exactly three times. First game we blundered around and she won simply because someone had to eventually. Second game we both grasped the strategy but I made lots of dumb mistakes, oo, that made me sore. This game we both played very well, and it was pretty close. Next time. It really is a fine game. I'll bring it to the ol' MLGN on Wednesday.

Hey, neat... GMT games has a Battle Line cheat sheet PDF. That's nice of them!

As we played, M said, "It's a shame more people don't play games." I thought of two things:

According to Reiner Knizia (uggh -- will I ever finish that Origins report?) games are quite mainstream in European culture, especially in Germany. So it isn't intrinsic in humans to not play games, as I sometimes have feared... it's just not a facet of current American culture.

I still want to help change this fact. The way may have grown less clear, with my failure to enter grad school under my plan to mess around with games full-time for a while... but my options are still many, many, o yes.

I just let a can man take my cans. Actually, he's not much of a can man... he looks distinctly non-homeless and is using hand-carried plastic bags instead of a cart, but he nevertheless retreated to the shadows when I carried out the trash & recycling, and several minutes later has finally descended upon it, noisily. (We have a lot of glass this week.) Not sure how I feel about this.

We have a lot of glass from Noah's impulse purchase of the variety of bottled beer, whence came Hocus Snood -- which very well may have become my favorite alkyhol, though I have had but the one bottle. Happily, Noah scored it at the wine & spirits store right across the street. Do you suppose I may visit it sometime later? I may.