Apparently my vent closed up on me sometime yesterday and my room managed to get progressively colder during the night. It's 65 in my room now, which is not a happy sleep temp for me. (Stop snickering at my inability to like sleeping in a chilly room, just shush it right now). I found the chain again and got the vent back open, but now I'm awake and don't want to be. So, I post.
We attempted to play a game of Arkham Horror last night. As per usual, it takes us forever to get it set up and for me to remember how to read my own cheat sheet on the rules. This only happened because it's been at least 2 years since the last time we played it, if not closer to 3. If you buy this game you will discover that the rules alone are made to drive you insane, and since that's the whole point of the Lovecraft/Cthulian world, we think they've completely succeeded in the game design. Tom was a life saver as he now remembers the rules even better than I do. We actually made it two full rounds by the time we reached ~12:30am and people were ready to go home (asthma attack, work tomorrow, we're old farts that get tired by 10pm nowadays). To be fair, we had 5 new players, which always adds a considerable amount of learning curve time to the game. The more often you play, the more the game makes sense and the faster people take their respective turns. It was still a fun time. Everyone retired shortly thereafter, with myself finally going to sleep at about 1:30.
[I have an idea for a new player info sheet or mini-booklet that can be handed out for them to read while set-up is occurring. There's also the reading of the character cards that takes up some time, especially now that we have character cards from the main game plus three major expansion packs. I think I can make this much less painful for newer players in the future, which would help tremendously. The rules book cheat sheet can only help so much.]
Later today, hopefully after a bit more sleep (we'll see how that goes), I'm planning on working some more in the workshop. I need to build a dado sled for the table saw, which technically will also serve as a regular sled without much trouble. The next set of dados that I need to cut for the bar building project require the 1"x4" pieces of wood to be put up on their ends. There's really no safe, sane way to to make this particular cut without a sled, and seeing as how we currently don't have one, off to build I go.
(Note: There's always an unsafe, insane way of cutting wood with any type of saw, but I'm not that insane. I'd like to continue playing piano and typing on this here keyboard with all 10 fingers intact.)
Oh damn if my "I'm starving hungry feed me breakfast now" stomach growling just kicked in. I'm still a bit too tired to eat, but I can't wait for a nice eggs and toast, or maybe even French toast, breakfast.
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