Jun. 9th, 2007

Home again

Jun. 9th, 2007 08:05 am
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Actually, I got home last night -- but had a wonderful evening catching up with gabriel_le, and was tired enough that I forgot all about posting. So... delayed "I'm home" post.

Got to fly home business class -- business class actually makes air travel humane, almost civilised.

I, unfortunately, didn't take enough books with me. Partially this was caused by one book I took being a lot shorter than expected -- far larger print, and wider margins than "normal". So, on the way back I was looking for stuff to read. I ended up reading the latest editions of Newsweek and Time, and of course mentally comparing them to my regular newsweekly, The Economist. And, they both came up short. They were, literally, quite a bit shorter/thinner -- though they probably cost less as well. But, they were also lighter/fluffier, for example one of them had a comparison of Harry Potter and the Sopranos, the other had a couple pages of interviews with a tv show cast. And, of course, there was a more distinctly American bias/cant to the news, and far weaker international coverage relatively. I also like The Economist sectioning, the collection of the news by category and area, and neither seemed to have that.

To come: books read and pictures of climbing on the Swabian Alb.
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Anyone want to go climbing Sunday afternoon? Maybe 1-2pmish at Coyote?
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I didn't take quite enough books with me this time -- but I've still got 4 more books read.

ExpandBooks 19-22, Flash, Kingdom of Cages, Climbing Anchors, Deus X and Other Stories )
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I went gaming at ironphoenix's place today. gabriel_le and I met him at Cangames, where he ran a game of Modern Art that she played in. He mentioned that he sometimes does gaming get-togethers, and we exchanged contact information. Today he had one of those get-togethers, and I was there, though gabriel_le was out SCUBA diving instead. I brought along a few games of mine, but didn't play any -- though my Fluxx did get played at another table.

A total of about 13 people showed up, though not all were there at the start. At the most, we ended up with two 4-player and a 5-player game running.

Expandwhat I played )

All in all, it was a good afternoon of gaming.

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