Games games games

For the last eleven years, I've done most of my boardgaming through a group which meets in various peoples' houses in Long Island, on either side of the Nassau/Suffolk line, about an hour's drive from my house. Meetings are regularly Friday evening after work and go from 7:30 PM to 1 AM or so. We also have a tradition of day-long events during long weekends, especially Thankgiving (Black) Friday, Memorial and Labor days, and July 4th. This past weekend we had regular gaming on Friday in Seaford (40 miles from my house) and all day Saturday in Bohemia (the most distant location, a full 60 miles from home but only 20 miles from Seaford). So, to eliminate 100 miles of round-trip driving between 1 AM Friday and 11 AM Saturday, I spent the night on the rec room futon at the home of the Friday night host, Steve "K-ban" Kurzban.

(This, incidentally, gave me the distinction of having the shortest trip to bed for the night--since K-ban actually had to walk upstairs to his bedroom, while I kipped down in the very room where we were gaming. A once-in-a-lifetime victory!)

Here are some comments on the games I played.

( For your gaming protection )

As a final note, I do have to say that I was quite surprised when, between the end of Friday gamenight and before the start of Saturday game day, my gracious hosts invited me into an overnight game of Find the Malfunctioning Carbon Monoxide Detector in the Rec Room. K-ban and Sandy (Mrs. K-ban) were such good sports about it that I had a good time despite my lack of interest in that family of games. I think Sandy won, because she followed the "go back to bed" strategy and was still sleeping when I left for Ward's.

What a great weekend!