Went up to Ames for the weekend. It was pretty good despite some bad news.

Though I make a habit of getting back up there to play games and hang out with friends, it’s been a few weeks since I’d been. That, and I think the flutterings of spring, made it feel somehow more vibrant than normal. Oh, and I’m moving back up there too.

Aside: It’s interesting how people use words like up and down to describe travel on a map. It’s not up, it’s north. But we all say it and we all understand what it means.

So as most of you know I’ve had some issues with my current roommates in Des Moines. For the few of you who don’t I’m sorry; I’ll have to fill the bloud (that’s a new word for blog crowd. Okay, whatever, I tried) in later once the move is complete. I packed up a carload and brought it with me. In this first installment went my gaming supplies (natch) and some excess kitchen stuff that I never really unpacked.

I met Pete, Rezza, and Steve at Tas’s/my former/future place. Tas wasn’t there because of the bad news: The night prior he had lost his grandmother. They were close. He’ll be out of town for a while and I wish him well. I lost my maternal grandmother when I was a teenager. We were also close, and it was tough to deal with.

After dinner the four of us played Dungeon Lords. I think the consensus is that we all like the game but need more practice. We’ve given it a provisional nickname of “I am such a retard” due to several exclamations during play.

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We finished the night off with three games of Dominion. Though I only won one of them, it was the finale and a landslide, so I felt a bit redeemed. Man Dominion is all kinds of fun. Especially when it’s easy to come up with kingdom card layouts.

I’d been dying to try out Dominion Shuffle, an Android app to generate kingdom card layouts. It did not disappoint. Point your Android Phone to the sneeze on the right to try the App out yourself.

Sunday I lunched with Pete at Thai Kitchen then played D&D with Pete, Jed, Chris, and Steve. I’ll spare you the gory details for now but we had a few hours of fun before I had to go.

Back to Des Moines, for a little while.