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Books

Recent Books: Tarma, Kethry, and Kerowyn

I had a craving for some Lackey novels this weekend– specifically Tarma and Kethry. So I read Oathbound and Oathbreakers, which I enjoyed, but noticed some problems with them this time around. Afterward I read Oathblood, and kicked myself– the missing kickoff story is in there. (Oathblood is a collection of Tarma and Kethry short stories). If you’re interested in reading the series, here’s how I suggest you tackle it:
Oathblood: Sword-sworn
Oathbound
Oathbreakers
remaining short stories from Oathblood. [Note: Some of these are in Oathblood and Oathbound in very similar form.]

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Game Group

Next Game: Friday May 16th

We’re off this week, with several people up in the air and Jennifer unavailable. We’ll pick back up on May 16th, unless I hear otherwise.

You’re currently paralleling the river, heading north and reconnoitering the fields. So far you’ve seen several different farm sizes– with a handful of slaves to more than fifty on one plantation.

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Fresno

Twice in one week

Bad news. You remember how I mentioned over lunch, Dad and Ben, that the Mexican place [Vallarta] around the corner from me was closed? I walked by it today and it remained closed, with chairs stacked on tables, a chain dead bolted around the door, etc.

But even worse? I continued walking to the Olive Press, and found that it too is closed. I ate there Monday, but it looks like they’re gone. The Java City shop owner across the street told me that they’re done.

Not good news for downtown lunch fans. While there are several good options still around, I’m sad to see the two of them go. [And suspicious about the Olive Press– I wonder if the end of construction on Kern and the completion of the Virginia Hotel around them raised their rents and drove them off.]

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Game Group

Next Game: Friday May 2nd

I’ve spoken with everybody and we’re all on board for gaming on Friday. If circumstances change, please let us know. Otherwise we’ll pickup the story where we left off– just after the enslaved gnomes were reunited with the gnome outriders.

See you Friday!

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Books

Codex Alera: Furies of Calderon, Academe’s Fury, Cursor’s Fury

Quick compelling reads by Jim Butcher (of Dresden Files fame). I polished them off during our travels to and from Italy– there was a lot of time in plane and airports. Jennifer started reading them as I finished them, and also seems to be enjoying them so far.

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Trips

Rome Report

We had a great time on our honeymoon, and really enjoyed exploring Rome. We babbled about it at great length with Dad on Saturday… for most of the afternoon. I’m going to scribble down at least quick notes about the trip and what we saw now, and hope to add more detailed posts later. I’ll link off to our photos when we get them up on flikr.

On to the capsule summary…

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Board Games

Struggle for Rome

Struggle for Rome is a Settlers of Catan variant that we picked up in Rome. Unfortunately, the version we bought has only Italian rules. Here are various resources for the game:
wikipedia overview
Board Game Geek page, including translations of the quick reference cards in PDF format.
Mayfair games page: Home page for the English version of the game
ProfEasy tutorial, for a quick English introduction to the game.
Reviews: one, two.

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Game Group

Next Game: Friday May 9th

We’re off for a couple of weeks; Jennifer and I are off on our honeymoon, then Kev will be out of town. We’ll resume in May with everyone hopefully well rested and ready to go.

If you can’t make it May 9th, please let us know.

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If you saw my brief lived stupidity (where I ignored this post and started to line up this weekend) please ignore it. The rest of the previous post [minus the bad info] has been appended below…

We’re back in country and look forward gaming with you again, hopefully soon. Board games might fit right away, but as noted above, we’re looking at May 9th for D&D.

On a side note, Josh let me know that roleplaying is not doing it for him right now, so we’ll continue the game with Denia moving into the background. If/when Josh decides that he’s interested in playing again, we’ll welcome him back.

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Board Games Misc Politics Roleplaying

Lots of clutter

RPGThoughts, a new blog.

I bookmarked this for the post’s name… I need to see what it is. Dr Who Torchwood and BSG

How cities change over time

I am TRex, a political humor blog.
Thick political newsfeed
Cheryl’s Mewsings: a cool sci-fi fandom site.

Levi is working on a SotC/Perfect 20 cross
Tokyo Rain RPG developer’s log. Interesting discussion about emulating the books. (The books also sound cool…)
Fantastic Dice Bag.

(Investigate): Bacchus’ Banquet Playtest Review by Shannon Appelcline (5/5).
Wordfare Playtest Review by Tom Vasel (5/3).
(Read) El Capitn (2007)
An interesting sounding expansion to Mare Nostrum: Mythology.
AT-43 company manager

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Misc

Uda!

Some recent food related finds:
Cookie Madness.net. More than cookies– a good food blog. Suspiciously, she cooks for “Fuzz”. Sounds like Dad’s been two timing us…
Spinach and Onion baked eggs
5 grease Pasta dish