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Monday: Kids back at school (home version)
Jan. 4th, 2021 11:45 amSchool restarted today. (For anyone dropping in from Later Times / Other Places: my kids are full remote, but our district did in fact have in person schooling for whichever hybrid cohort it is today. And that was despite the snow that fell last night, which was pretty minor.)
A. asked for a couple six sided dice. I mean, obviously, we have a backgammon set, so we have dice. But I got to wondering about some games I used to play before I had kids, and had tucked away until the kids were older. The kids are older, and I am going through games. I had (on a previous occasion) already restored the order in Nuclear War and its two expansion sets, attempted to play it with my son, discovered that I have raised my children with Actual Morals that preclude the dark humor of Nuclear War, and shipped it off to a friend who is about my age, and whose kids are more tolerant of dark humor.
Today, I found the Cheapass Games that I kept but did not put on the shelves (Brawl decks are on the shelves and I actually play them sometimes): Deck A and Deck B of Fight City. I also found Credo: The Game of Dueling Dogmas. And I found about 400 cards worth of Mythos: Dreamlands. Having looked them over, they all qualify as, yeah, we won’t be playing these, either (Credo was right on the edge, but I did not feel like answering that many questions, and the humor was just not going to work with the kids). I also found a Fall 1998 Cheapass Games catalog, and went to their website, where, apparently, you can (creative commons) print any of the games that I remember from back in the day. I was initially, cool! We’ll get the Clue knock off, Kill Dr. Lucky! Oh, wait, no, the kids are not up for that. Hmmm. I read all the games. I did a lot of introspection.
I am not who I used to be.
ETA:
I have found the Amazon Basics keyboard, bag and device stand that I was looking for a few years ago! Bad news, tho: batteries died in there. I have cleaned it out, but not well enough so I will await R. and his contact cleaner magic and see if this thing still works.
ETA:
I finally finished reading _Secrets and Lies_. It probably would have been better to read the earlier books in this connected series of three books, but the wrap-up at the end is where I really felt that missing backstory. It works fine as a standalone tho. It is definitely a book that is not contemporary — Romancelandia evolves over time — but it is absolutely worth the time. There’s a little bit at the end, where the author explains the parts she made up and the parts that are historical, and how she decided what she did. That’s a nice piece of insight to include.
Last night, I started dis-assembling Mos Eisley. I wanted something to listen to, but which did not require me to watch it, so I went looking for comedy on Netflix. I watched Whitney Cummings’ _Can I Touch It_, which was pretty good. It is this slightly demented, extended take on gender and technology, that includes a sex robot that she had to make like her, and which she has deliver some jokes. It works both as commentary, and is pretty humorous. It is not totally clear how this will age — watching it, I feel like in another 10 years, depending on where we go with asexuality as a concept within critical discourse, this could be viewed as prescient, but not prescient enough to survive the transition. I will try some more standup by women, to see if there is someone out there who I really like, and just don’t know about yet.
A. asked for a couple six sided dice. I mean, obviously, we have a backgammon set, so we have dice. But I got to wondering about some games I used to play before I had kids, and had tucked away until the kids were older. The kids are older, and I am going through games. I had (on a previous occasion) already restored the order in Nuclear War and its two expansion sets, attempted to play it with my son, discovered that I have raised my children with Actual Morals that preclude the dark humor of Nuclear War, and shipped it off to a friend who is about my age, and whose kids are more tolerant of dark humor.
Today, I found the Cheapass Games that I kept but did not put on the shelves (Brawl decks are on the shelves and I actually play them sometimes): Deck A and Deck B of Fight City. I also found Credo: The Game of Dueling Dogmas. And I found about 400 cards worth of Mythos: Dreamlands. Having looked them over, they all qualify as, yeah, we won’t be playing these, either (Credo was right on the edge, but I did not feel like answering that many questions, and the humor was just not going to work with the kids). I also found a Fall 1998 Cheapass Games catalog, and went to their website, where, apparently, you can (creative commons) print any of the games that I remember from back in the day. I was initially, cool! We’ll get the Clue knock off, Kill Dr. Lucky! Oh, wait, no, the kids are not up for that. Hmmm. I read all the games. I did a lot of introspection.
I am not who I used to be.
ETA:
I have found the Amazon Basics keyboard, bag and device stand that I was looking for a few years ago! Bad news, tho: batteries died in there. I have cleaned it out, but not well enough so I will await R. and his contact cleaner magic and see if this thing still works.
ETA:
I finally finished reading _Secrets and Lies_. It probably would have been better to read the earlier books in this connected series of three books, but the wrap-up at the end is where I really felt that missing backstory. It works fine as a standalone tho. It is definitely a book that is not contemporary — Romancelandia evolves over time — but it is absolutely worth the time. There’s a little bit at the end, where the author explains the parts she made up and the parts that are historical, and how she decided what she did. That’s a nice piece of insight to include.
Last night, I started dis-assembling Mos Eisley. I wanted something to listen to, but which did not require me to watch it, so I went looking for comedy on Netflix. I watched Whitney Cummings’ _Can I Touch It_, which was pretty good. It is this slightly demented, extended take on gender and technology, that includes a sex robot that she had to make like her, and which she has deliver some jokes. It works both as commentary, and is pretty humorous. It is not totally clear how this will age — watching it, I feel like in another 10 years, depending on where we go with asexuality as a concept within critical discourse, this could be viewed as prescient, but not prescient enough to survive the transition. I will try some more standup by women, to see if there is someone out there who I really like, and just don’t know about yet.