Austin Ridgeline course

I got to play Austin Ridgeline, Austin's toughest disc gold course yesterday. This course is "like Brusy Creek Rec Park" on steroids someone said. It's got a ton of great elevation changes and it will get a lot of love when it opens 10/31. It's at a church called Austin Ridgeline Bible Church and it was designed by John Houck who designed most of the best courses in the area.

It looks like Tony is trying to fly off the mountain.

One of the holes plays a lot like ski lift courses. It's down the hill, but it's got a fairly tight fairway lined with trees most of the way down.

Jud says, "congratulations. Houck spent hours designing this course so that people can't use Tomahawks and Thumbers and you still found a way to do it."

This course already has some wrought iron benches by some of the holes, a wooden scout-built bridge over a creek, and amateur tees set up as well as the pro ones on most holes.

Praying on Drugs, near Guitar Hero band name

I almost called my Guitar Hero Van Halen band "Praying on Drugs" in honor of Brother Steve. Steve was an evangelist on the campus of Georgia Tech when I went to school there. His testimony I heard shouted many times.

"I was on acid at a Van Halen concert when I heard David LeRoth say, "Not even God can save you at a Van Halen concert." I thought, what's he talking about God for? Does he believe he's real? And Jesus? And then I heard Jesus say 'I can too save you at a Van Halen concert."

Steve would shout at girls in shorts for provoking lust, at guys wearing concert shirts for worshipping Satan, and for guys who walked together for being "homO-sex-u-als."

Fight the good fight, Steve. Yes, Jesus can save even at concerts. And if you listen close you might hear him speak.

Rainy Camping Games

What do you do when it's raining so hard, you don't want to take your crokinole board out of the car?

We played Liar's Dice. I have a Perudo set and a laminated wager board from Bluff on Boardgamegeek.com. This turned out to be a very fun game that you can play under a tarp as the wind and water flow outside. One of the guys wanted to just drink whiskey out of his dice cup but we convinced him to play.

After we got a 6th player, I took out a dice from Pickomino to mark the bets. That meant Pickomino was the next game to hit the table. Fun and another game that can be played when it's moist outside. It always goes on ever so slightly too long, but I think we all enjoyed the game.

Other games played: Cash'N Guns, Transamerica, and (the next day), some Tichu. Ca$h'N Guns has to be played with just the right circumstances. Having a group pointing guns at each other was pretty good in a camping setting, even if I did occasionally find everyone pointing their gun at me.

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Now maybe I'll finally blog again.

We are doing another board game meetup at Plank's on Sunday. Last time saw some great games played. I even played Zombie Fluxx with some new people and I didn't hate it.

There was Age of Steam played, Hacienda, Tichu, a version of Clue based on Harry Potter, Ingenious as a partnership game, Guillotine, Race for the Galaxy as a two-player game, and Diamant. There may have been a few more that I don't remember as well.

I really couldn't have picked a better place than Plank's in Austin. They have a ton of board games around their restaurant. We had to put some reservation signs out to keep non-meetup folks from just grabbing a game and taking it to their table. Also, as we were wrapping up, I noticed another group of gamers meeting at the restaurant as well,

Disc wedge

My Star FL got wedged in a disc at hole 4 Wilco during the Double R's bag tag challenge.  It probably kept it from skipping into the woods.  My second shot landed right under the basket.




The Double R had 33 people show up for two rounds, one at Wilco and one at OSP. I did fine at Wilco but my round at OSP was a disaster.

Jimmy won the #1 tag and the money.

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Tichu Mistakes

Last week I made a huge mistake trying to set up a one-two when my partner called Tichu. I played a couple of high combos that went around and then a huge straight saving one card for myself. I figured I'd just pass until my partner went out. Oops! I'd have to lead (and you can't pass on a lead). I grabbed a card off then end of my straight and put it back into my hand.

"Whoa! You can't do that. Not after showing your card to your partner." The opponent on my right made me put my card back on the table. All she'd have to do is pass and we'd have a -100 for my going out first instead of my partner.

Not realizing that, she played a higher straight that exactly covered mine. Whew! My partner made his Tichu and her partner said it was very sporting of her to play a straight covering my mistake.

Well, we still barely lost the game but had fun playing. I still love Tichu.

Early Birds Roost at Red Rocks

The Red Rocks show was great this weekend! It's the most fun I've ever had playing disc golf. 5 regular Early Birds went and we played with Tyler who used to play with us a lot. It's harder for him to understand our frequent banter since he's deaf. He's a great guy and I'm glad he got third in rec (I think).

Jason, on the left, had his first throw as an open player bang the chains and spit out. He had a great showing in his first open division.

Kyle, second to left, completely creamed our recreational division. He says he'll move up next time he plays. He didn't know he should move up because he hasn't been in a tournament in a couple of years (which he also won in rec.) and he didn't do well the last time our meetup played at Manor.

Matt and I also got to play in the final round for rec.  I think I probably got fourth out of 16 but left before the final tallies.



I don't go camping without games. We played Ticket to Ride, Crokinole, and Diamant. That was cool! Glad the guys are open to playing games and Crokinole is an easy sell because it's all about getting a disc into a target.



It's just great to wake up on a disc golf course for a full day of fun.

Games at Water to Wine

Someone contacted me through our Central Texas Boardgames Meetup about letting us play games in their wine store. I thought it was a pretty good idea so that's what we did.





We had about 23 people show up. I played Crokinole, RA, and Dominion too and I like all of those. We finished up with a game of Wasabi.



Ed and Susan came. They even played a kids game called Animal upon Animal too.

Games played:
Scrabble
Yahtzee
Crokinole
Settlers of Catan
Pandemic
My Word!
RA
Agricola (twice)
Settlers (Germany)
Boggle
Animal Upon Animal

I even got a couple of the ladies behind the bar to play My Word! They seemed to enjoy that. To show our appreciation for the space, I bought a bottle of wine and so did Ed and Susan. I think several other gamers did too.