After a little vacation, SMOLT! has returned to its trivia ways.  The peeps were so happy to see us, now on the win again!

We will be missing this weeks of course.

I would be far more interested in building this “Meditator” is it was a d10, or heck even a d4.  But a d12?  Heck no. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/21/your-very-own-meditator/ 

We are the majority!  Industry-tracking group’s annual survey finds 8 percent surge in number of respondents who play games.I would write more but its time to boot up the Wii!  The Article in question.  

We made the annual trip to geek mecca, Dundracon, this weekend.   Dundracon is a  February convention in San Ramon, California,  featuring board games, miniatures, card games, LARP, roleplaying, and SCA.   John arrived on Friday night and ran his game a few hours later. I arrived Saturday afternoon and crashed Adams d&d game.  A good time was had by all.We discovered:

• In-n-Out is the only place open after midnight.  In-N-Out is invaded by teenagers  who are bored. In-N-Out is the best place to break up with your teenage girlfriend, on the phone, after asking your friends, and ordering french fries.
• Some people get obsessed with rules.
• I played Spirit of the Century for the first time, a pulp role-playing game that takes place in the 1920′s.  The other players were all great and a good time was had by all.  The room next to us was playing a superhero based game and I could hear John yelling in joy as he defeated evil.
• We left Sunday night and this time I didn’t get the Dundracon headache.  This treat often last 3-4 days, comes from staying inside the hotel, not getting fresh air, little sleep and I think (although not proven)  some gamers dislike or fear of soap.  For gods sake gamers, bathe!

This past week has been fun and then hard.
Thanksgiving went ultra smooth. I brined the turkey again, and it came out wonderful. Even the slightly sarastic member of the family was singing praises. This is the preecooked turkey, it was so darn good we forgot to take a picture of it when it was done. . Even though I hate mashed potaoes everyone else loves them. I used our new handy dandy kitchen aid mixer. Popped in quartered, boiled potatoes, some cream and flipped the switch, perfect mash potatoes in minutes! Tries some new recipes that people seemed to love, sautéed green beans and mushrooms, cooked in sherry and then topped with toasted slivered almonds. Yum.

Much food was consumed. Then we played Apples to Apples. Now my mother and her sisters were a little excited and John found it a tad bit difficult explaining the game to them. They were more challeneging that his sophmores. But they got it and seemed to enjoy the game. John made extra points when he compared weddings to the Bataan Death March. Ahh good times…. The cleaning then started, several dishwasher loads, moping, and cleaning later the kitechn was back to its normal beauty. Gconnor and mconnor stopped by and we played more games. It was ncie to see ‘em.

The next day was Thanksgiving at the Stepmothers. Good time was had by all. Work up the next moring … sore throat.

Spent the next 6 days on the couch. Cancelled all other family functions. Not fun. So out of it, I couldn’t even play any games! Lucky I had little kitten to keep me company. Kitten and Zori are now pretty good freidns they play a lot. Zori will chase kitten across the loving room. Then suddenly kitten is chaging Zori across the other way. No claws, and no mews, so its all good. Kitten’s name you ask?

*drum roll*

Lego Thanks Adam for your fine fine suggestion.