Many people! Yay!

We ended up with 9 for BBQ - can I remember them all? me, xiphia, ironphoenix, con_girl, foms, metalana, iclysdale, mikepictor, oni_neko. Yup.

After dinner we returned to my house, and were joined shortly by rainbowsprite and someone who's LJ name I can't remember off-hand.

And gaming happened... several games. I played Roads & Boats with xiphia, foms, and ironphoenix. It is a long, complex, but interesting game. We didn't finish but foms was in the lead when we aborted. It needs to get played some more. Probably with an egg-timer.

I know that Formula De, Kingdoms, Thurn and Taxis, and Metro all also got played. There might have been other stuff.

It was a very pleasant evening.

Oh...and a Ferreira 10-year tawny port got drunk. Well, mostly. It was quite nice, too.

Not so much with the bridge, again.

Today was the 2nd time that ironphoenix, beable, ilanikhan and I tried to get together to play some bridge. beable was too ill to make it. (I hope she's ok.) And ilanikhan made it by, but spent most of the time here lieing on the couch drifting into and out of sleep.

So, ironphoenix and I played a game of Roads & Boats. We played the 2-player scenario "A Cute Little Sea", which was interesting. I was running a little ahead, until he misjudged a "need to move first" instance, and I grabbed some important goods that he was depending on. At that point, he resigned. It continues to be an interesting game, though. He may borrow it to solo play for a bit while I'm in Switzerland... after that point, phear him.

They wandered away around 4:30pm or so, leaving me with some time. I trimmed a few bushes on my driveway, but that didn't take long. I have eaten all my frozen meals, though, so I decided to start some more. I've got a lentil-barley stew cooking right now, and I've got beans on to soak for a chili to be made in the slow cooker tomorrow evening.

An odd bit of introspection...

Yesterday evening after dinner a couple of my friends decided to go out to a store and buy some dessert for the group. After they did this, and at the end of the evening, I felt a bit guilty that I didn't offer to chip in for some of the cost of the dessert stuff they bought. Like I was contributing my share. And that they'd be upset/annoyed/think I was freeloading because I didn't offer.

Then, I realized that I also opened & shared a bottle of port with the people that were around. So I figured I was even, and it was ok.

And then I realized I had no expectation that anyone would contribute, and if anyone had offered, I'd have declined. And I'd have offered the port whether or not anyone else had bought dessert.

At which point I went, "oh".