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 …
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 …
DH and I rounded up a group of our friends to join us for a mega WDW Wine & Dine group trip. DH and T* ran the Wine & Dine half-marathon, while Moo, B*, BAD, and I enjoyed the Wine & Dine festival race party. We also toured WDW in …
Well, I’ve played every game that I care to play. I mean, there are seven more games that I haven’t played out of the entire group, but I have no interest in playing those. A few are solitaire puzzle games, and the rest are either ones that I’ve been told …
Games completed: 24 Games to complete tomorrow: 7 Games in addition to that that I want to try before I leave: 3 If you want to check out my game lists with ratings and comments, click this link: Mindgames 2010 Ratings/Ballot
As many of you have noticed, the blog has gone back in time to catch up on posts from our (very awesome, wanna go back NOW) Disney trip. As such, I skipped over quite a few events that would normally warrant a blog post. I don’t want to spend another …
This year’s WeeM was pretty good. The addition of my parents was fun. I think they had a good time, especially being my TSA Agent assistants at the costume contest. I regained an appreciation for Agricola and renewed my hatred of Caylus. I did not get sloshed, for once. I …
I owe thanks to rmjwell for pointing me to last night’s ep. I’d gone to bed early and missed it. Also, my dear husband has me on political overload right now and probably will have me overloaded until the election. Thus, I’ve been minimizing my exposure to political stuff so …
I had my first ever honest-to-goodness hangover today. Generally, I can drink as much as I like, and at worst, I’ll have a mild headache in the morning. However, after last night’s Pretentious Drinking at WeeM, I woke up in the middle of the night wired and sick feeling. After …
I’m the vendor coordinator for my local Mensa group’s annual convention. Our con (called an “RG” or “Regional Gathering”) draws 500+ Mensans to the Sheraton Chicago Northwest in Arlington Heights, IL. It is the largest regional convention in US Mensa. You can get more information about the convention here. If …