Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Last week went slowly and I continued to get absolutely nothing done.  I went to the library several times to try and concentrate, but it didn't work.  A friend of mine had given me a copy of game that was similar to Dominion for the computer.  It has a campaign mode that dives you alternate goals to obtain certain cards before the AI ends the game and other things like that.  It hasn't been easy and I spent too much time trying to get through a couple of the goals in the campaign.  It definitely makes it a different experience.  I am still playing a lot of Explorers which is similar to The Settlers of Catan and Toulouse which is similar to Carcassonne.  I bought a computer game version of Puerto Rico a couple of years ago and have been playing that the last year.  I am definitely playing too many games on the computer.  I still have been playing D&D Enounters which is real life gaming.  After the last session I went to a friend's house where we played Runebound: 2nd Edition.  I haven't played Settler's of Catan with my other friends since before I went home for my reunion.  On Thursday, I met a friend at Panera Breaad and we played Seismic.  It was a pretty good game--a simple tile placing game similar to La Strada.  It made for good two player game.

Since yesterday was Halloween, the Friday party at the club was Halloween themed.  There was a little show in the middle of the party so they started the party early.  Friday night seemed to drag on.  I am feeling more and more out of touch with the people at the club.

On Saturday I was driving up to see a friend in an archery competition when I ran into another car--tearing up my right front fender and passenger door.  I wasn't cited in the accident, but evidently the insurance companies are putting me at fault right now.  There was evidently some debris in the road that th other car slowed down for.  All I saw was all the cars in front of me move either to the right or left and this car was sitting in the middle of the road.  I tried to go around but there was a truck next to me and I clipped the car because I wasn't able move all the way left.  I don't have the rental car option so I am borrowing a friend's car.  I am not sure how long I will be able to keep his car.  I think I might rent a really cheap car if he needs his car back.   My friend took first place in the competition for her category--just don't tell anyone she was the only one in her category.  SHe did well even though there was no competition.

Saturday night I went to a Pumpkin Carving party.  There weren't as many people as the previous years.  This year I carved a pumpkin--the last few years I hadn't done a pumpkin but after the accident, I really felt like carving.  I found a pumpkin with a green side and I carved a Cthulhu image from Cthulhu Dice.  I used an older version of Dremel 7000-PK 6-Volt Pumpkin Carving Kit that I bought a few years ago and never used.  I had fun and everyone was envious of my power tool.

Last night I went and saw the movie Red.  I liked the movie.  I expected more humor and a little less action, but it all worked.  The are some really good older actors and I think I prefer the actors from that generation.  There wasn't a lot of gratutios foul language or anything.  The story was good and it was just done well.  I would definitely recommend to anyone who wants action with some comedy.

Sunday morning I taught Sunday school by myself.  Even the aide was missing.  Her husband who evidently works with the second grade came in to help.  I thought it was kind f disastrous, but I doubt anyone else felt that way.  I went though the material I had prepared fairly quickly.  I probably should have gone a little slower and not abbreviated some of what I had planned, but I wasn't sure if it was appropriate for third grade.  Even though we were scheduled to do the Rosary a month ago, some of the parents received an email for their kids to bring a Rosary to class.  We spent the last twenty minutes saying three decades of the Rosary.  I felt kind of bad for the kids, but several of them wanted to do it since they brought the Rosary in.

Today I went and got some things out of my car.  The damag looked worse today than I remembered it.  It was also overcast and gloomy, so I am trying to console myself by saying it was the lighting.  Tomorrow I volunteer so I am headed to sleep, perchance to dream.

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