The accoutrements of Mind Games 2013
For those who don’t know, Mensa Mind Games™ is how American Mensa judges games to receive the Mensa Select™ seal, which is awarded to 5-6 games each year. It’s an event with around 300 Mensans in attendance, specifically a self-selecting subset of Mensa that are gamers. As a judge/attendee, you …
I’ve done a bunch of things in Seattle that resulted in me taking lots of pictures. The albums are up with the photos, and you should totes check them out: Views of Seattle – I went to a party for International TableTop Day at the Columbia Tower Club, which is …
Last night, I went to see Oz at the Cinerama! It happened to be conveniently on a bus route that I was on, and I had been wanting to go there anyways. It’s a historic theater that a Seattleite rescued from destruction and updated. So, it has both the latest …
We had a going away party yesterday. One group joined us at the casino for a buffet lunch: I also hopped into a picture and Moo went behind the camera. We wanted an employee to take the picture for us, but he let us know we weren’t allowed to take …
This came up in another forum, and as lots of people liked my solution, I wanted to include it here for posterity. The problem with Quidditch is that the snitch is over-valued. It is so rare that it’s highly notable when the team catching the snitch doesn’t win the game. …
First, I haven’t mentioned it here directly, so I should: we’re moving! We’re heading to Seattle. I’ve kind of loved Seattle from afar for quite awhile, so I’m really excited to move there. It’s a lot of work to get ready, though. I went through our bookcases today to decide …
I had no idea who was playing in the Super Bowl until today, when I caught up on the ads via YouTube …
DH did the Goofy at WDW Marathon Weekend for the first time this year. He had decided to do his half marathon …
I did quite a bit of gaming in the time between returning from our pre-Christmas cruise and now. I’d received several games …
A few days before our RCI cruise, DH discovered that he’d have to return to home early for a work opportunity. So, …