The Great Things Come Early

There are several great things that I enjoy in my life. A couple of those include boardgames, and another being school. School is great as it'll help me get out of this duldrum life of retail and move on to doing something that actually takes brainpower. That's not to say that retail doesn't take skill, but it is more practice and tolerance than anything else.

Back on to my topic...

School is an early thing ever since I found out they have pushed up the exam schedule 3 days. This made me nervous and bit frantic, but tonight I'll be done with them and have several days off between semesters (I take classes online), so that will give me more time for the other early thing...

Which would be my latest game order, which includes 2 new expansions for Battlelore, an ultra rare game Marracash, a semi-rare game called San Fransisco, and an oldie but goodie called Hol's der Grier.

So while I'm nervous about exams, I do have the uplifting feeling of seeing my game order on the porch when I pull into the driveway tonight.

Off To See The Wedding??!?

Well, my sister-in-law is getting married in a couple days, and I can't say that I'm all that excited about it. That's not to say that I don't like weddings; I do (pun intended). It's just taht the guy is a real putz that nobody likes. The sad part is, I think the guy likes it that way. Oh well, at least he makes her happy.

On the up side there is a fantastic local game store called Days of Knights, which we will be making a side trip to.

I cannot overstate just how awesome a store it is. It's one of those places that as soon as you walk in you get that "WOW" feeling. They have such a wide variety of every non-electronic game and rpg, including some very old and collectible stuff.

I cannot wait. Heh, I will also get a free lunch.....mebbe free beer...

Collectible Games

I guess I would have to estimate my Magic the Gathering career at almost 10 years now. I have almost every card up to about 4 sets ago that I ever wanted (a full play set that is) and people rarely want to play me.

I guess that's the double edged sword of the collectible game. You spend alot of time and money getting all the things you want to have alot of fun and be great at it, then most people either drop out of the hobby, or they just don't want to play you since you have enough of the "best" stuff to kick their asses.

Since I have continued to beat the boardgames horse, allow me to whip it into further submission: I guess collectible game have shown me what's so great about board games. While there might be expansions that further the variety to be had in a given game, there is no way other than cunning or lucky game play to become better than another player. I think that often brings me back to that hobby and keeps me interested because, besides the utter variety there is, you also have the finite knowledge to be had other than that of strategy. This seems to put the human element first other than the money or time the person has spent in the hobby.

Mo' Money, Mo' Games

I guess my love of games has become more of an "obsession" of sorts in recent times. Every time a new game comes out, it's something that I jsut have to have.

Now, that doesn't mean that I solley collect games. I have actually played over 300 of my 338 games; most of those have been played multiple times.

It's just that I feel like that since my hobby is not as large as say, the video games industry, and the community is not as large (though it is growing) that I would rather buy a game and trade or sell it later if I didn't like it, rather than chance coming across a game I fall in love with that is currently out of print.

I've owned over 400 games, it's just that I have traded and sold many of them.

Soon comes the new expansion for DreamBlade (Night Fusion), and then I'll be even more in debt :)

Oh well.. I have made countless friends pursuing my hobby, and had alot of great times to boot. That's worth more than all the money I could ever spend on it.

A New World

At one time, they used call these blogs Home Pages. Before that, they used to be a dial-in service called BBS.

Bulletin boards are like the dinosaurs: They're totally extinct. The "internet" saw to that. Even personalized web pages have begun to take a back seat to blogs.

So here I am, someone who's been around the digital block a few times, finally delving into the Great Blog Sea.