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GenCon, Poker, Life
J:
The weather finally turned lovely here, but I haven't been taking as
much advantage of it as I should. I've discovered online poker, see. So
aside from a little pool party at D&D's place, I've been mostly
inside, putting in time at the tables. I got a little obsessed for a
few days and couldn't talk about anything else.
Gina's back from GenCon where she saw lots of old friends and no doubt
made a few new ones too. She cooked a wonderful dinner for me and Lori
and Luisa. Vegan nut loaf and a carrot salad, followed by orange-spiced
chocolate. Mmmmmm. After dinner Kory came over with a game he bought at
GenCon, called That's Life. Good game, but very frustrating for Gina I
think. In an abstract way that's a lot like life when you think about
it.
G:
Wednesday I left for GenCon. Jacob drove me, Chris, Kory, and Kristin
Matherly to Indianapolis, Indiana. It took 12 hours to get there, but
we had fun on the ride. We took an accidental detour over the top of
Pittsburg, and stopped in Columbus to eat at an Ethiopian Restaurant
there that Jacob Kory and Chris had eaten at during Origins. So all
that added a bit to the length of the trip.
I spent my time at the Why Did The Chicken...? booth and a little bit
walking around. At the booth I would try to get people to try the game
or and I'd also join in playing. The first day I decided to try to
generate some attention by putting some itty bitty chickens up my nose
in front of some people waiting in a line to get some autographs. I
trotted over and announced, "Hey everybody, I'm going to put these
chickens up my nose!" They I saw a head peering around the crowd at me
that I recognized. "Keith?" I said, and ran over to see Mr. Baker. I
haven't seen the Bakers in years. He told me Ellen would be along soon.
Later I also heard that Lee Moyer was at the con, and spent some time
one evening talking with him. Mostly he told me all about Portland and
made me want to visit.
I also hung around with Russell (Rabbit Coordinator for Looney Labs)
and got to read the Games magazine article about the Looneys that
mentions John twice.
I was really surprised to see my friend Christian show up at the booth
one day. I guess I remember him talking about liking games, but I
didn't know he was that into them. We hung out a little too.
The ride back was uncomfortable since Jacob drove all afternoon and
night, and I wasn't able to sleep in the very upright seat in back.
Around 1am, after going through a tunnel, we were completely stopped in
a long line of traffic from an accident up ahead. We amused ourselves
for a while by getting out of the car, walking around, enjoying the
mountain air. After a while we saw we were near a turn around (with a
no u-turn sign) and checked with the atlas and Kristin's gps navigator
and found an alternate route was not too far behind us. We felt
extremely lucky to have been right near the turn around, surrounded as
we were by huge semis.
We lost a lot of time, had to take some winding roads, and got to
Jacob's a little less than 11 hours after we started out from GenCon.
I've been sleepy a lot since.
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psychos
in love
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to president
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brown rants & raves
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trophy awarded...
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