We had about 34 for boardgames at the Central Texas Boardgames Meetup this weekend. I'm glad everyone seemed to have a good time as we will be going on Summer hiatus until September or maybe the 2nd Friday in August.
Mark smiled. I'd think he hosed someone but he seems amused by a game piece.
Someone also brought a home copy of Agricola that was enjoyed. Everyone is still looking forward to the production copy on this one.
Other games played included: Race for the Galaxy, Pillars of the Earth (twice, back to back), Hamster Rolle, Blue Moon City, Toledo, Ingenious, Nyet from Mu and More, Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride (twice), Robo Rally, Starcraft occupied two of our tables but I don't think it was played, For Sale, Thief of Baghdad, and more.
Saturday was disc golf day with a Cinco de Flyo tournament in Dripping Springs. I was in my usual tree-hitting, tournament form. Mark and John did well and Jason creamed us from the hard tees scoring 2nd in Advanced Men and it was his first tournament!
Later, Mark and Jon were stuck in my car so I drove over to Manor for the new course there. It's totally tough. This being a casual round I was free to make some great shots like my second one that hit the pole on the "peninsula basket." Most of the basket was surrounded by water and one of the guys we met at the course found the creeks on both sides of the basket.
This is not exactly a forgiving course.
Sunday, May 04, 2008
A full Meetup Weekend
Monday, April 28, 2008
Hole B, morning disc golf
The sign was still up from the Texas Women's Championship this weekend. I always wondered the distance of hole B at OSP. It's 403 feet.
The picture is taken just down the hill from the tee box.
Which made for satisfying "metal" when I bounced off the pole with the Gazelle.
Pa. man charged with pushing friend into coal mine (AP) (link)
Wow! You know it's time to upgrade your friends.....
Friday, April 25, 2008
Nose Licking...the game (link)
A really odd standoff game, what Nose Licking lacks in hygeine it makes up for in genuine weirdness and the hilarity of actually playing it.
For two players, each faces the other and hold the other's shoulders. This hold must be maintained throughout the game. Now, simply, each
Don't say I never linked to anything weird. That's what you get when it's been so long since I've played a boardgame. At least the meetup is coming up one week from tonight and I should get some in then.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Word Games in May
The Central Texas Boardgames Meetup is doing quite well. In addition to the regular monthly meetup, May will see a South Austin Meetup and a Word Games Meetup both hosted by "not me." Lisa and David will host in South Austin. Since their attendance is limited (and it's a long way from me) I'll leave enjoying that meetup to the folks in South Austin. I do plan on attending the word games meetup hosted by Anita.
We played Big Boggle at our last meetup and it was a lot of fun. I only got a chance to play it a few times because I had to run off to a business trip to Connecticut. I thought everyone had played Boggle before but I was the only one in our group, I think, who had played it. A local library hosted a Boggle tournament this week so it must have a few proponents at least. I had fun.
Lauren came and brought Gary. Lauren taught the group "Speed Scrabble" which comes up as Pick Two when you search for it on Boardgamegeek.con. Funny. I had Pick Two in my ever-present game cart and they were playing the same thing with the Scrabble tiles.
Boardgames Meetups > The Central Texas Boardgames Meetup Group
Round Rock, TX 78664 - USA
Saturday, May 17 at 3:30 PM
Details: http://boardgames.meetup.com/360/calendar/7761456/
What about Wayne?
Mark posted a new blog but left out Wayne. I haven't been able to comment on his blog, some security thing where I've forgotten my password so I thought I'd link here. Wayne played with us twice that weekend which was awesome.
Nobody has noticed that I stopped wearing tee shirts for disc golf since I turned 40. I'm now wearing the more traditional golf shirts. I bought a few batches of them on Ebay because I'm such a cheapskate and they are just for disc golf. My wife says I look nicer in them not that it matters.
Mark takes a lot of pictures but he's never uploaded any to our DiscGolf Meetup site or to our Boardgames Meetup site. That's OK though. I credit his blog and photos to introducing several people to us including Nick and Stephanie and Correy.
Stephanie, if you're reading this, you and Rachel should really be in the Texas Womens Championship next weekend.
Gravitt, Ken, and myself played disc golf at Wilco. However, I had a headache come on around hole 8. So I aborted and went home. So sad.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Disc Golf in Connecticut
I got to play a little disc golf in Connecticut this week at a $3 pay to park course. Notice the broom on the tee sign? That's a little like a board game coming with a picnic table.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Alice all Week
I've been Alice on the course this week. That means I'm starting to get big and small like Alice and Wonderland. All the really long shots are looking pretty small and the small gaps through the woods are starting to look like big holes for my disc. That's the best thing about practice.
I also had Clint "help" me practice putting. Hey, it's not child abuse if you don't hit him, right?
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Mark "strikes back"
Mark took his camera to the last meetup of the Central Texas Boardgames Meetup.
Gravitt has been playing around with making comics at Bit Strips. And one of the characters looks suspiciously like me. So here is my attempt at getting revenge...
