We went to Wilco for some disc golf this morning. Out in the field was a medical transport helicopter on display. It seems there is some type of fair going on. I wanted to check it out afterwards but they had packed up by the time we finished a couple of hours later.
Some bored disc golfers made a rock sculpture for some reason.
We started off with a opening game of Dominion. At the end, I won. But, during the game, I sure did not think that I was in the lead at all. I guess that I believed my Jedi Mind Powers along with everyone else.
This is the first game that I have played Tichu with in a while (since March). Too bad I don’t have enough friends willing to play Tichu with me regularly. Or at least consistently.
| GT/T | Team #1 | GT/T | GT/T | Team #2 | GT/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MarkH & Ed | Jon & MaryM | ||||
|
95
|
5 | ||||
| 135 |
65
|
||||
| T+ | 435 | 65 | |||
| 445 | T+ |
255
|
|||
| 480 |
320
|
||||
|
565
|
335 | ||||
| 680 | T+ |
420
|
|||
|
765
|
435 | ||||
| 965 | 435 | ||||
| 1165 | 235 | GT- |
| GT/T | Team #1 | GT/T | GT/T | Team #2 | GT/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MarkH & Jon | MaryM & Ed | ||||
| 0 | 200 | ||||
| 300 | T+ | 200 | |||
| 300 | 400 | ||||
| 500 | 400 | ||||
|
475
|
T- | 425 | |||
| 510 |
490
|
||||
|
565
|
T+ | 635 | |||
| 585 |
815
|
T+ | |||
| 735 | T+ | 865 | |||
| T+ | 1035 | 865 |
Today’s high will be 107 and people are out playing either soccer or ultimate frisbee. I wonder how they cope with this heat?
I sometimes seem some interesting looking cargo being transported up and down IH-35…
I find it cool that I am able to connect to this machine remotely. I have no idea where it physically exists. Yet I can carve it up into virtual machines. Which, for all purposes, act like separate machines. All of this is very future-riffic and neat. Yet, when I install Linux on the virtual machine I am forced to interact with it in a very ugly and ancient way. Until I get the machine up enough for it to switch to a graphical install…
During my bike ride in the morning, I passed someone fixing a trailer by the side of the road. I then noticed it driving past me. I thought that was the end of it until I saw it broken down again and passed it by again. After ten minutes or so, it off into the sunrise… Hopefully with no more problems.
I went to Wilco for some disc golf today. And I noticed that they cut down a number of trees due to oak wilt. So sad. I hope that’s the last of it. Unfortunately, this course was packed today. I tried skipping around. But I could not find an open section of the course and kept being stuck behind slower players. So I aborted early…
I drive past this building on my way to work in the morning. It was just recently completed. Doesn’t it remind you of the TV show Fringe? Its very rare that you see a building’s name. And especially in a three dimensional font.
Not only that, but when I was driving home, I noticed the aftermath of some crazy driving. Somehow someone jumped the curve, took out a speed sign, and drove around the grass. A drunk driver?
Unfortunately, some a-hole broke the sign for hole 15. Sigh. I wonder why?
I saw this cool looking custom car parked at Monument Cafe. While custom cars are a neat concept, I would take a modern, factory-made, high-tech car any day of the week.
Ed and Susan brought over Steam to play. I am a huge Age of Steam fan and I have been reading up on Wallace’s changes to Age of Steam to turn it into Steam. Unfortunately, none of the changes sounded good online. But I had to at least try it once.
Essentially, all of the changes serve to dull the game from the brilliantly sharp edge that AoS has. I know why these changes were made. They certainly make the game more acceptable to the general public. But they remove the struggle to claw your way up first to profitability and then to dominance.
In this game, we pretty much stayed to our respective corners. I was able to successfully poach from Ed just before he was able to deliver goods a couple of times. Susan took a couple of 6 deliveries away from me. But my network was just too good and I had quite a lot of 6 and 5 lengthed deliveries.