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Blackout and board games anyone?

So last night, as dinner was in the oven and veggies were awaiting microwaving, we lost all power. This happens occasionally and it's the most annoying thing because when we lose power, we are one of maybe 15 houses that do. Everyone else around us on a different part of the grid and so we are low low low priority.

It's a good thing the cod was almost done. We dumped the veggies in oven-safe dishes and removed the fish and placed the veggies in the oven to heat up and the oven cooled. Worked nicely.

But we were bored. According to Dominion Power, the underground cable had been cut and we'd be without power (and heat) for 4 hours. It was dark, sweetie's plans of watching RU men's basketball game was thrown out the window, and we resorted to asking each other questions from the Whad'ya Know game by candle & flashlight. Then we just got sleepy and both of us lazed about on the sofas, dozing until the power came back on around 10:20. I think.

While waiting for power to be restored, I tried to get sweetie to play Trivial Pursuit Lord of the Rings trilogy edition but he refused (on the basis that I'd win - thus our game languishes, unopened). And this is where I get a bit sad. See, we like good board games but don't know enough people who like to play them. I feel like such a geek when I think to myself "self, wouldn't it be great if we had a weekly or monthly game night?"

No, I don't really address myself as self.

Sadly, we only know one person for a game night - S, who taught us all about the "German" games - they're really fun! We've played two of them, one in German. Die Siedler von Catan seems to have an English version called The Settlers of Catan. The other was much more fun, at least to me. It was called India Rails. We had to build rails all over India and transport good to make money to build more rails. It was both educational (geography of India and Pakistan) and frustrating (I could not make enough money running a tourist pilgrimage line in Pakistan/Nepal to build other lines). Of course, we love Cranium, but 4 people are needed for that so we never get to play it. We also have Kuduuk, which we have yet to play. At least we managed to play Wise or Otherwise last weekend with S (who gave us the game). Wise or Otherwise is a nifty little game where you finish ancient quotes. Or try to. It's quite funny.

As we played the game, though, we bemoaned our lack of game friends and now I ask: friends, do you like to play board games?

Ironically, just this week, C asked me if I'd ever played "resource games." Confused, I asked him what these board games were, thinking of Diplomacy or something. Turns out the game he was describing was Settlers. Small world. Anyway, he's looking for people in DC who play German games. If you're a German gamer looking for game buddies, I can hook you up. Otherwise, we're still looking for VA buddies. And if you have Ubi, you rock. That is a difficult but fun game.

( 07:51 EH | silly hooha. )