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terryclothSunday we didn't play D+D, because Eric hadn't prepared anything. Like that ever stopped me!
Anyway, instead we played board games that Ed and Tom had been wanting an excuse to play. First, 'Ra', a fun little bidding game with a silly egyptian theme, that can turn into 'press your luck' if you play your cards right (or, maybe, wrong, because the people who managed to be the last ones able to bid on stuff came to grief for it.)
Then we tried the zombie game again, using an advanced scenario, and... well... the humans lost really really badly. The scenarios are all timed, and me and Shawn lost about eight turns at the beginning between rolling 1s for movement, 'lose a turn' cards, and a swarm of zombies that had plenty of time to catch up to us. The other humans tried to save us, but that was a mistake.
Losing isn't why I decided I hate the game, though -- having 1-second turns (Okay, I rolled a 1 for movement, but I'm outdoors so I can't search instead, and I have no weapons) as a human compared to 10-minute turns for the single zombie player is really just... stupid. The game was really meant for 4 players, where the zombies get split up and people get multiple heroes.
Saturday, I had to take my car in for service (sigh) and decided to try using the bus to go get comics and lunch while I was waiting, instead of just taking the bus home or waiting around Factoria. There's a bus that goes straight from Factoria to Renton, but I *just* missed it, so I had to wait a full half hour for the next one (actually, 38 minutes, because it was early and the next one was late) and then it took about an hour to get there.
And of course, I was *way* early to get comics, so I had lunch first. I remembered there being a bunch of fast food places in the area, but the only one I could find was a Taco Time, which was just as awful as I remembered it being -- there's a reason I only got to Taco Time once a decade or so.
But when noon came and I got comics, the dealer still hadn't called, so I decided to take the bus home -- 240 to Bellevue, then 253 or 230 down NE 8th. I actually had good luck catching the busses that time, but I discovered to my horror that the restrooms at the Bellevue Transit Center were closed on weekends. So it wasn't until the end of a 90 minute bus ride that I was able to stagger to the toilet in my apartment and.... er, yeah.
So of course, right about then the dealer called to tell me my car was ready. That meant walking half a mile to get the 222 to the Eastgate transit center, which was only about a mile's walk from the dealer. They charged $500 for the service (WTF? Supposedly, a lot of parts needed replacing) and said it would be another $300 and another apointment to get rid of the sap droplets that are all over my car after the tree outside my apartment went evil.
So that's not going to happen. "But it'll ruin the paint!" Yeah, whatever. Like the car'll be worth anything as a trade in anyway.
Anyway, instead we played board games that Ed and Tom had been wanting an excuse to play. First, 'Ra', a fun little bidding game with a silly egyptian theme, that can turn into 'press your luck' if you play your cards right (or, maybe, wrong, because the people who managed to be the last ones able to bid on stuff came to grief for it.)
Then we tried the zombie game again, using an advanced scenario, and... well... the humans lost really really badly. The scenarios are all timed, and me and Shawn lost about eight turns at the beginning between rolling 1s for movement, 'lose a turn' cards, and a swarm of zombies that had plenty of time to catch up to us. The other humans tried to save us, but that was a mistake.
Losing isn't why I decided I hate the game, though -- having 1-second turns (Okay, I rolled a 1 for movement, but I'm outdoors so I can't search instead, and I have no weapons) as a human compared to 10-minute turns for the single zombie player is really just... stupid. The game was really meant for 4 players, where the zombies get split up and people get multiple heroes.
Saturday, I had to take my car in for service (sigh) and decided to try using the bus to go get comics and lunch while I was waiting, instead of just taking the bus home or waiting around Factoria. There's a bus that goes straight from Factoria to Renton, but I *just* missed it, so I had to wait a full half hour for the next one (actually, 38 minutes, because it was early and the next one was late) and then it took about an hour to get there.
And of course, I was *way* early to get comics, so I had lunch first. I remembered there being a bunch of fast food places in the area, but the only one I could find was a Taco Time, which was just as awful as I remembered it being -- there's a reason I only got to Taco Time once a decade or so.
But when noon came and I got comics, the dealer still hadn't called, so I decided to take the bus home -- 240 to Bellevue, then 253 or 230 down NE 8th. I actually had good luck catching the busses that time, but I discovered to my horror that the restrooms at the Bellevue Transit Center were closed on weekends. So it wasn't until the end of a 90 minute bus ride that I was able to stagger to the toilet in my apartment and.... er, yeah.
So of course, right about then the dealer called to tell me my car was ready. That meant walking half a mile to get the 222 to the Eastgate transit center, which was only about a mile's walk from the dealer. They charged $500 for the service (WTF? Supposedly, a lot of parts needed replacing) and said it would be another $300 and another apointment to get rid of the sap droplets that are all over my car after the tree outside my apartment went evil.
So that's not going to happen. "But it'll ruin the paint!" Yeah, whatever. Like the car'll be worth anything as a trade in anyway.
