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Unplayed and new to me – July 2014
Having received no new games and playing the some of the ones that I got last month, I'm up slightly!
Score from June 2014: 4
Trade Away: 0
Recieved: 0
Played: +2
End Total: 6
- Skyline
- Deadwood Studios
New to Me
Skyline is one of these ones that I've played on yucata a few times. It's a push your luck that has some small amount of strategy to it. It's quick and easyish to teach.
Bang! The Dice Game
Played this a few times. It moves along at a decent click and is fairly simple from a rules point of view. I think we had the highest player counts and it didn't take too long and most of the time everyone has some skin in the game.
Don't know how easy it is for the Outlaws to win though. Unless they use the Gatling gun, then they have to go directly after the sheriff and expose themselves or just lose? And if they do go after the Sheriff then they're clearly an outlaw.
Battlestar Galactica
I was a cylon and so didn't really get a good feel for it. I'd want to play it again. It feels like it took to long and it was quite draining (again that might have just been from the cylon point of view). Have similar issues as with Bang!
Deadwood Studios
A fun little economic game from Cheapass Games that has you saying silly lines. Probably need a few more plays of it to get a handle on it. Think I still like Fish Cook more though.
Dungeon Lords
Similar to Galaxy Trucker in as much as it's a game in two parts. The first is a worker (or minion in this case) placement and the second is a defend your dungeon from adventurers game. Has some interesting card play (which determines where your minions go) where each player programs where their minions will be placed simultaneously and you generally want to be the second player to go somewhere. Add to this your second and third placements are unavailable to you in the following round.
The entire game turns into a balancing act where you try and manage your resources while limiting your evilness. Having too much evil will draw the Paladin to your dungeon who is much more deadly than the other adventurers. It's a balancing act I'm not very good at.... but it's still fun.
Unplayed and New to Me – June 2014
Unplayed Challenge
As June is my birthday month and BorderCon... my plays and received games went through the roof.
Traded Away:
- The Cave (Maths Trade)
- Power Grid: Factory Manager (Bordercon Raffle)
- Ascension (Maths Trade)
- Small World (Birthday Present)
- Rampage (Birthday Present)
- Deadwood Studios (Birthday Present)
- Skyline (Birthday Present)
- R-Eco (Birthday Present)
- Bremerhaven (Bordercon)
- Fische Fluppen Frickadellen (Bordercon)
- Alchemist Academy (NSEG)
- Jaipur (NSEG)
- Rampage
- R-Eco
Score from May 2014: 4
Trade Away: +1
Recieved: -7
Played: +6
End Total: 4
New to me
So many this month. I'll try and rip through them.
Alchemist Academy
Played at NSEG. Don't like it. Needs to have some sort of rule change... constantly just felt like "Can I cast a spell? No.... So I either draw from the spell deck or the components deck... ho hum". Maybe some sort of market would improve it.
Played at NSEG. Nice little game. Have played it a fair bit online and it plays just as well on the table.
Played at Bordercon.
A good little filler. A bunch of magnets that look like little flat rocks that have different polarities. You spread them out on the table and on your turn you just curl it across the table (if you have none in your hand you pick one up and then curl it). If it ends up sticking to another (or causes another to stick to another) you get them, otherwise you just loose your rock. Once all of the magnets are no longer on the table, player with the most wins.
These things are super charged though... sometimes flicking it across the table will send one that wasn't really that close flying off the table. Crazy stuff. Super light and quick.
Also played another game that used the same (or similar) magnets where the aim was to place them within the playspace (a bunch of matt triangles that you setup before the game). You start with a set number in your hand and on your turn you place one. If it sticks to another you take those back (or if it sends any off the playspace you take those). First to have none left in their hand wins. A bit more strategic and would be interesting to play the two games back to back.
Battle Line
Played at Bordercon.
You play cards out to various flags (seven in total) and try to make three card poker hands out of it (three of a kind, straight flush, straight...). If you have the higher hand on that flag it becomes yours and winning three adjoining flags or any five flags wins. There's also a leaders deck which allows you to break the rules.
Play becomes more difficult as you go along as you tend to box yourself in. Found that I only drew the card I needed once I'd given up waiting for it. Very much felt like I was trying to make do with what I got at the time. I somewhat enjoy that sort of game, but I don't think I'm going to rush out and get it.... There's an element of stress as you hope your opponent doesn't do X in position Y, but it's not really the sort of stress I want from a two player game. Not a bad game though.
Played at BorderCon
Glory to Rome in SPACE.
Based on my rating, didn't really seem to love it, but that could change with more plays... will check it out when it gets released.
Machi Koro
Played at BorderCon
This and Sail to India were the games that I missed out on getting at Essen 2013.
I played it three times and enjoyed it each and every time, though it did include the Harbour expansion which gives the game more (welcome) complexity. Shame that the English game and expansion won't be coming out at the same time. Will still be picking it up when it does though.
Francis Drake
Played at BorderCon
This one seems like it should be in my wheelhouse... but I didn't seem to get on board with it. I do like the way that most of the game resets after each round (and thematically this works as each voyage is years apart). I just felt that I'd enjoy it more with more rounds that are quicker.
Still the components are lovely... the ships are plastic, but wonderfully modelled and the beads reflect light wonderfully...
Played at BorderCon
This is a game I skipped over at Essen... an interesting theme, but the gameplay seemed meh.
Cards are numbered 1-9... there's 1 one, 2 twos , 3 threes and so on plus some negative -1s of two different colours.
So on the first turn each player gets 10 cards and they select all the cards of one value... so you might want to play the 6 and you have 5 of them in your hand... So you play them down and everyone reveals what they played to their tableau .
You then work out who has the majority in each value. So obviously having played 5 sixes you have the majority... so you get the special action associated with that. Each value has different abilities, like score a VP, swap a card with someone, stop someone from taking a card, have an extra card dealt to you, keep an extra card sort of thing.
Once you resolve, you trim your tableau down to the limit as listed on the card (believe for the first round it starts at three). All the other cards are shuffled together again, you reveal the next card in the season deck (which are always in the same order) and deal out cards again (but this time less than before) and pick, reveal, resolve, discard (to more than before).
So there's 8 rounds of the game and there's a lot of shuffling and dealing and shuffling and dealing and it really does just drag. Near the end of the game, you tend to end up with single cards of stuff that isn't already in front of you. So you just play whatever.
It seems like it should be interesting... it's almost like the designer wanted to try to do drafting without having drafting... and it's a bit of bore. Artworks nice... theme is interesting but has no relationship to the mechanics.
Played at BorderCon
Splendor is a splendid game. Get tokens in order to buy cards which help you to buy more cards in order to get enough points to win. Quick, clear and to the point. The random nobles which will come to visit you (and give you if you points) switches things up from game to game.
There's a little bit of long term planning that can be done and a little that happens on the fly.
Can see why it's SdJ nominated, but the price point is a little hefty. The tokens are nice, but the theme doesn't really seem to help explain the game. Can see it being a good game for NSEG.
The Boss
Played at BorderCon
A quick light deduction/bidding game. The artwork is OK, but the graphic design is so so. Perhaps a little to light? Might be more interesting with playing with various valued workers rather than just the two....
It's sort of blind bidding... or worker placement with value. Needs more plays.
I was trying to get away with ignoring the ships and just trying to use buildings (which I was fairly lucky to nab) to generate goods to dump into buses/trucks.
Near the end worked out that this wasn't going to fly... it generated a lot of money, but little prestige. So near the end grabbed some high prestige ships.
Interesting in a 3 player game where 2 players are using all their cards to try and outbid each other on thing while the other player steals the lead.
Fische Fluppen Frickadellen
Played the 15 player game at Bordercon. This was crazy fun. A really fun special event game. . I tended to rush off each board as fast as I could ... probably a mistake. Ended up arriving at another board without many goods or money. So am looking forward to playing again.
Played at BorderCon
Now... I've played this at NSEG before, but apparently didn't log it, so eh...
It's a good bluffing game... fairly quick. I enjoyed it at NSEG, but assumed at BorderCon that I remembered it so well that I didn't need an explanation of it again as I walked in halfway through picking up from another player. Clearly I did need a rules refresher (or perhaps I was just too tired) because I screwed up some rules and was utterly to dopey about what I should be doing that I was alternatively too obvious or playing so badly that I feel I kind of messed the game up for the others playing. Hate doing that. But I like the game.... just need to work at it.
Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game
Played at BorderCon
I can see the attraction from a role playing point of view, but I really don't like the mechanics of it. We were playing the get the keys and fuel and get to the car scenario and while we had the keys, the fuel was stuck in the great big draw pile (which had cards from expansions). Choices feel like "Move, shoot or go lucky dipping for what you need".
Did not love and would likely need to have had some drinks to play again.
Luchador! Mexican Wrestling Dice
Played at BorderCon
Love the theme, but I don't think there's enough times that you can make a choice (really the only choices you seem to have are to tag out or whether you go for a big risky hit vs a safe small hit when you get certain die combos).
Being able to roll in such a way that you can knock your opponents dice out of the ring is a nice touch though.
A Study in Emerald
The theme really shines through on this one. Madness... I really don't get it.
The rules don't really help with understanding why you want to do anything. It's really just a do things for points.
Going, Going, GONE!
This was fun, but I was so bad at it.... but I'm bad at ebay as well... so it's fair enough. As I recall I blew most of my cubes (money) early and then kind of got lost as to wether I should push by country or type and when to sell. There's this moment between the cards coming out and the auction starting that you have these rational thoughts about what you should do. Then the auction starts and that tends to go out the window as everyone else starts throwing cubes at the thing you want.
It's super quick though and would be good to play again.
Bit of a beast to setup, but fun to play. Has a good theme and is well integrated. Will be an nice one to hang on to for when Harley gets old enough to start playing.
Another great little card game that I've been playing online for quite a while and now have a physical copy of (I have the Amigo R-Oko version which has much nicer artwork). Plays just as well as the online version, though slowed down somewhat by having to flip out the cards from the draw pile. Easy to teach and quick and fun to play.
Unplayed and new to me – May 2014
Managed to play both games that I bought and got another one in! Winning!
- Fauna
- Time's Up! Title Recall!
- Fauna
- Pick Picknic
- Time's Up! Title Recall!
Starting score : 3 (from April)
Played +3
New Games: -2
Ending Score: 4
New to Me
Pick Picknic
A fairly simple simultaneous selection game where your trying to outguess your opponents. Wasn't a heck of a lot of outguessing... but we were playing with the maximum number of players, so perhaps with less would be a little more strategic.
A game that I had dismissed as being one of Friedemann Friese's odder games... but it's really quite good. Each round there's an animal card (with a picture) and your told how many areas it exists in and if you have to guess it's weight, height/length and/or tail length. You then place out cubes onto the map or the scales for weight/height/tail length. For exact matches you get such and such points (the more regions the less points) and such and such points for adjacent areas. Any cubes not in exact or adjacent matches you lose. At the end of the round you get one cube back (or back up to three).
And for some reason it's just fun. Even when it turns out your amazing educated guesses (or knowledge of movies like Madagascar and The Jungle Book) were way off the mark, it's still fun to see all your cubes wiped off the table. I'm not sure how educational it is... some of the animals are so rare and specific that I'd be hard pushed to recall anything about them. But if it gets it into schools...
We started off playing this wrong... for some reason whoever was teaching thought priority didn't matter (or that it only determined start player). About halfway through we realised that this was wrong and as a result there was less chaos in the start of the game which had let one player run away with the game. After this there was a lot more shooting at each other with the remaining three.
But would be nice to play again.
I like SET for exactly the same reasons that I hate it.
Each card has 1-3 of the same objects (either ovals, diamonds or waves) that are either shaded, empty or solid. Then you have to match cards based on these three categories where they either are all the same or all different.
For instance a 1 solid diamond, 2 solid diamond and 3 solid diamond would work (the shading and object remains the same, the numbers vary). A 1 shaded oval, 1 solid diamond and 1 empty wave work (because the number remains the same, but the shape and shading are all different). 1 shaded oval, 1 solid oval and 1 empty wave doesn't work because the first two shapes are the same and the third is different.
So because our brains are so hardwired to see patterns, finding patterns and lack of patterns at the same time is really quite hard. It does often give me a headache. I like it and hate it for this reason... I'm very undecided about it. But it's not a game I'd actively seek out.
The Struggle for Catan
I hate Settlers of Catan. But I was willing to give this one a spin.
And it seems to take out what I dislike about Catan. Gone are the boring dice rolls, gone is the tactical city placement... gone is the long snorious negotiations for trade. It's a tight little game that plays fairly quickly and I enjoyed it.
Time's Up! Title Recall!
This is one of my only pure party game in my collection. Really quite love it. It's always entertaining, either being amazed that people can get things so easily or laughing at how bizzare some of the clues are. The three rounds of the game where each round limits what you can do to give clues (or how many guesses you get) really does make the game.
Suspect that this will get a lot more plays over the years.
Unplayed and new to me Apr 2014
Hey... so I realise that it's no longer May and I forgot to publish this post. Oops...
Unplayed Challenge
Getting a sudden hit of Kickstater in the last two months and a trade from the Aus Card Game Chain has wiped out a fair bit of progress on this.
- Ascension Apprentice Deck
New Games
- Jaipur
- Pick Picknic (Received in Trade)
- Words With Friends: Rush
- Tsuro of the seas (Received in Trade)
- Ascension: Revenge of the Fallen (Received in Trade)
- Rage (Received in Trade, not expected)
- Slapshot (Received in Trade, not expected)
- Alchemist Academy (Kickstarter)
Traded away:
- Fünf Gurken
- Card City
- Continental Express
So net result is
Starting score : 7 (from March)
Played +1
New Games: -8
Traded Away: +3
Thus I go from a score of 7 to a score of 3...
New to Me
Lost Cities
Have played this on the xbox, so... one of those games I love but really suck at (there does seem to be a lot of those around).
Ascension Apprentice Deck
Loved this... have played Ascension before, but the artwork in Apprentice Deck is much nicer.
Munchkin Bites!
Munchkin is still Munchkin no matter how it dresses up.
Unplayed and New to Me March 2014
It's almost the end of April and I haven't published my game plays for March! Eep!
What happened to Unplayed Feb I hear you ask? Well for Feb I only got one new game (My Little Pony CCG) and I played it in Feb. So Feb was a net zero.
March was a bit confusing to score. Technically I got two games according to BGG, Fast Flowing Forest Fellers and Ruse. But Ruse comes with a dice game that's not yet in the BGG database. So since I've played the Ruse Dice Game and Fast Flowing Forest Fellers am I still net zero for March or at -1.
Probably -1. At some point I'll attempt to add the Ruse dice game to BGG if it's not already there by the time I can be bothered.
It was a pretty quiet month, only one new to me which was Fast Flowing Forest Fellers. A lot more older games played this month. However, if I was doing the 10x10 Challenge, Sentinels of The Multiverse would have been in it. And on that basis it would be half way to it's target within the first three months.
Fast Flowing Forest Fellers
Friedman Friesse's racing game where you control 2 (or 3 in a 2-3 player game) trying to get from one end of the river to the other before your opponents. You do this by playing movement cards from your hand, which indicate the distance that can be travelled (in hexes) and whether it's the male or female character moving. You can shove other player/s and all logs (though only if there are less than three that you're shoving) and there are currents that if you stop on them might push you forward or fling you backwards.
The boards are modular and vary in difficulty. Some are full of currents that send you right back to the start, others have many logs, some are quite narrow.
The game plays fast (our two player game went for about 20 minutes) and there's very little downtime. The artwork on the cards is lovely, though it's somewhat easy to mix up the male and female cards if you don't pay attention (generally on the five where the character isn't standing up, so it's just their face).
Easy to teach, easy to play... wonder how the downtime will be with 5 players, but seems like a nice fast filler.
Inspector Montgomery's Challenging Dice Game of Intuition and Chance
I'm biased against this dice game. Between this and the novella, it's what caused a Kickstarter that was essentially a 52 deck of cards (with all artwork ready) to take 15 odd months (almost a year after delivery date).
And unless I'm playing it wrong it's not very good. There's not really any options as to what to do (there's only ever 3-4 options which reduce as the game goes on) and winning or losing really is luck based. Probably never play it again.
Sentinels of the Multiverse: Infernal Relics/Rook City/Shattered Timelines
I don't normally include expansions in my new to me... but thought I'd share.
If you play against an Infernal Relics villan, make sure you have an Infernal Relics hero. Otherwise it all seems to go to poot. Of course sometimes it is lovely to sit there and struggle against things going to poot, but it can be a bit saddening to watch the end of it.
New to Me: Feb 2014
Super Dungeon Explore
Hmmm... it's an interesting one.It's simple and complicated at the same time.Certainly not the sort of game that you'd want to play every week, but it pretty cute and I can see that you'd be able to bang out games a lot quicker than we managed to when we played if you played it on a semi-regular basis. I don't think I'd buy it... the minis look like they're a pain to put together for someone as unskilled at that sort of stuff (as I am).
Munchkin Cthulu
My issue with Munchkin is that in almost every game every player will get to Level 9 and then suddenly someone will get to Level 10 just because no one can stop them. While this didn't happen in our game (I went from Level 6 to 10 in one turn)... I'd think this is more of a fluke than something unique to the Cthulu version of Munchkin. Game went for about 45 minutes which is the longest I'd want it to go for.
Gah... I don't know. It's not really funny and I don't like the gameplay. It's a game I really shouldn't play.
Android: Netrunner
This is last year's hotness. Is it worth the hype? It's certainly got a lot of depth and I can see that the more you play the better you would get at it (which is what you want from this sort of game I guess). Netrunner is a two player game where one player plays as an Evil Corporation and the other player plays as an Evil Netrunner (a hacker). A lot of the terminology is very different for each player (the Corportation's Deck is called R&D and the Netrunner's Deck is called a Stack).
The Corporation is trying to fulfil thier agendas, while the runner is trying to steal them from under thier noses by hacking into the Corporation's servers. The Corp tries to protect it's servers with pieces of ICE that tend to harm the runner if they run into it. Or perhaps it's just a bluff. Perhaps the Corp doesn't have enough money to activate it. Or maybe that's what the Corp wants the runner to believe... it's a double bluff!
Our game was quite slow as I was learning to play (and I was playing as the runner, so my timidness probably made the game run long) but am eager to play again when I can.
Oh so is it worth the hype? It's a good game. I'd think there's a fair bit of replaybility just based on the base set. Want to give the runners a few more tries before seeing if I like playing as Corps more.
My Little Pony: TCG
Bit hard to tell how well this one plays. Shar had a bad deck where she couldn't get her off suit ponies up and running. We also played the double face off rule wrong, so I was revving ahead with points. But still... it's interesting. There's a bit of head to head interaction and a bit of take that... but not overly so. It's an interesting TCG that doesn't ask you to beat your opponent to death. We'll have to crack it back open and give the cards a better shuffle at a later stage (and possibly try different Mane characters).
Each player takes a Mane pony and a deck. The 2 player starter decks have a deck for Pinkie Pie and a different deck for Fluttershy, while the theme Decks have 2 Mane ponies but only one deck. Each player then takes their problems and chooses a starting problem, shuffling the rest. Each player draws five cards into their hand. The cards in the deck are ponies, events (one shots), Resource cards (which can be attached to ponies to help them) and Troublemakers (which stop your opponent from completing problems).
To play ponies from your hand you need to be able to pay the action points required (varies from pony to pony) and have the required power of a certain colour. You can play the ponies to a problem and once you have enough to confront the problem you get points for them. You'll continue to score the problem until your opponent also confronts the problem or you confront both problems. Once that happens you have a face off (where you flip the top card of both decks and combine with the power of the ponies at the problem/s to see who gets the bonus for the face off). Once that happens the problem goes to the bottom of the deck, flip a new problem and the ponies go home. But the Mane pony can only have so many ponies at home, so if you exceed this number you have to discard some to get to that limit.
There's an interesting ebb and flow as you complete problems and face off.
The Power colours are pretty interesting. From what I can tell Pink (Pinkie Pie) is random, Blue (Rainbow Dash) is all about speed and ease of movement, Yellow (Fluttershy) is about cheap support creatures that have more power when they act together, White (Rarity) is about deck manipulation. I'm resisting the temptation to buy boosters... but it's not all that available at the moment... if it suddenly turns up everywhere it might be hard to ignore.
I'm hoping that I'll still want to play it in 5 years time... will be nice to play with Harley.
Unplayed update January 2014
Unplayed as at Jan 1, 2014: 40 games
Played in January:
- Megastar (w Sharon and Buttons)
- Prolix (w Sharon and Katie)
- Shadow Rift (w/Ash)
- Coloretto (Jan 19 NSEG Meeting)
- Eight Minute Empire Legends (played at January 5 NSEG meeting)
- Futterneid (played with Sharon, Ash and June)
- Hanabi (played at January 5 NSEG meeting)
- Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island (w/Ash and Ben and @ Jan 19 NSEG Meeting)
- Kids of Carcassonne (w Sharon and Katie)
- Kids of Carcassonne
- Ascension Apprentice Deck
So I start at 0 points, and according to the Aluminium Gamer thread on BGG points are gained as follows:
Play an unplayed item: +1
Trade or sell an item (unplayed or not): +1
Give away an item (unplayed or not): +3
Add an item to your collection: -1
So on this basis I get +9 for playing unplayed items and -2 for adding 2 items to my collection (though one of those is a net zero... so not too bad).
So for January I've gained 7 out of a possible 40 points. Of course I'm also hitting the games in my collection that are either easiest to get to the table or the ones I want to get to the table first and I think it's going to be harder to whittle these down further.
New to Me: January 2014
Some very quick recaps (impressions I suppose, rather than reviews) on the games I played in January that were new to me.
Eight Minute Empires: Legends
With the right group a good game. With the wrong group drags far too much. After a game that took far too long, played it with a timer. Ups the stress and forces you to quickly decide on strategy while the other player has a turn. Want to see how it plays with a variety of groups and with the full range of in game expansions.
I can see why it won the SdJ. It's a game that families could play for years. It's hard to get used to though. A good quick game that seems to have plenty of replayability.
Oh! An interesting game from 2F. It's deck building... sort of. But I like it and want to play more of it. It's got a lovely supply/demand market and you need to work out when you can shift out of focussing on producing goods and replace them with your victory cards.
Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island
Played the intro scenario 3 times now... it does seem to play longer than I want it to. I wonder how the other scenarios play. Presumably they all take about the same amount of time, but I presume there's enough variety to make each scenario feel different.
Was fun. Sharon protested that she's not good at word games, yet won. The interrupts are an interesting mechanic.
A half decent game from 2F. It's made better by using actual Candy. I'd imagine that for many groups it would require varieties of chocolate though. Should be able to get it back to the table
This was a purchase for NSEG. It's a tile purchasing and laying game with a shared board. It kept reminding me of Alhambra for some reason. It's got area control and money management. Easy to teach and learn and hopefully has some lasting power.
The Kids of Carcassonne
This one was bought more for Harley than for us. It's Carcassonne where every tile can be joined to any other tile and the aim of the game is to get rid of all of your meeple (or have the least when the tiles run out). You place your meeple on the kids of your colour when a road is finished. Harley was very interested in the game and kept putting the meeples on the tiles. It didn't really matter whose meeple or which tiles, she just enjoyed placing them. It's rated ages 4 and up, so she's got about 2 more years before she hits the age when she should be able to play it.
Ascenion: Chronicle of the Godslayer
This has been doing great guns at NSEG. I was turned off by the artwork in the past. I backed the Kickstarter for the Steam/Android port and I've been playing the Steam version. And it's quite good. Got a chance to play the physical edition and it was good enough that I picked up the Apprentice Edition (because I still like the new artwork better).
Gameplay wise, it's a deck builder with a market of 6 cards at any one time and two currencies (runes which are used to buy cards and might which is used to fight monsters). There's a certain amount of VP available (which you mostly get for defeating monsters) and once that's gone you tally up how much of the VP you got and add that to your cards VP.
Quite a varied game and could end up taking the place of Dominion
Just played a 2 player game of it, would be interesting to see how it plays with more. I suspect it would play better. But still an interesting quick card game.
Stone Age
Interesting.... it's a worker placement where the amount you get is based on die rolls and you use more workers to increase your chances. I went in with no strategy whatsoever (although I did think "oh, I should try and see how many buildings I can get), but can see that it has depth.
Surprisingly good. We played without any variants... I'd like to try the variant listed in the rules where it reverses the way that you determine the list though.
We tried out this one with the original and updated rules. Went long (with just two players). I think for a co-op I'd lean more towards Sentinels and for a deck builder probably more likely to turn to Ascension or Dominion. I'm willing to give it another try though... maybe it'd play faster when we know what we're doing.
The unplayed
My unplayed list is getting rather excessive for the number of games I own. So I've decided to make a concerted effort to get it down by either getting rid of the games or by y'know... playing them.
So here's my list ordered into three categories...
- 'designer' pre essen (games I got before we went to Essen last year that are vaguely considered 'designer' games)
- Since Essen are ones that I got after Essen (either through purchase or gift)
- 'non-designer' are basically those ones that would garner weird looks if I took them to NSEG
The third set has a lot of LEGO and DVD games... these may be harder to get to the table. The Heroica stuff I'm tempted to put together for one massive game just to epicly play it. We'll see how we go...
I knocked 3 of the games off yesterday (if you count Robinson Crusoe which we got halfway through before we had to go... I'm calling it a borderline case).
'designer' pre Essen (9)
Agricola All creatures Great and Small(got a game in just before New Year's)
- Blurble
- Ex-Libris
- Famiglia
- Felix The Cat in the Sack
- Kill Dr Lucky
- Megastar
- Pala
- Prolix
- Shadow Rift
Since/at Essen (10)
- Bremerhaven
- Card City
- Coloretto
Eight Minute Empire Legends(played at January 5 NSEG meeting)
- Fische Fluppen Frikadellen
Furstenfeld(got a game in just before New Year's)
- Futterneid
Hanabi(played at January 5 NSEG meeting)
- Klunker
Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island(played at January 5 NSEG meeting... well we got half way through it... that counts right?)
- Steam Noir
'non-designer' (21)
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The New to Me in 2013 list
So... in no real order, these are the games that were new to me in 2013. There are quite a few and I've tried to give a quick summary of what I thought of them. But my word, there seem to be a lot of them. It's also gotten me thinking about a couple of other topics that I really should blog about at some point.
Let's dive in!
Bling Bling Gemstone Sharon and I had a quick go of this at Essen... but there were no rules and we spent more time rebuilding it (as it was on a tiny table and the peices went everywhere). I have no idea how it's different to Click Clack/Toc Toc.... apart from the fact that it sports an interesting colour scheme.
Click Clack Lumberjack It's a dexterity game where someone wins instead of someone loses. It plays quickly and has enough ooohs and ahhs in it to keep everyone involved.
Tokaido I had fun playing it at the time, but I'm not sure how subsequent plays would go. Probably need to play it with more than 2 players. It's very pretty
Fürstenfeld An economic Friedmann Friesse game that Sharon will play! Hurrah! Gets points purely for that. Will have to play semi-expert game with Sharon (still random start but with the 2 extra cards). But also want to try the expert mode and with more players.
Friday Played a bunch of times in a short period and then it ended on the shelf. Played it at the end of the year and I sucked at it. Will have to schedule time with myself to play it... if only to beat it on easy.
Council of Verona It's cute, fast. Have played with 2 and 3 players. Poison and Cure aren't too complicated and probably need to be in every play. Not sure how many replays this will get though.
Sushi Go! Love it. It's nearly just pure drafting. Quick, light and fun... nice introduction to drafting. Cute artwork too.
Power Grid: Australia & Indian Subcontinent Have only played the Australian side, but so much fun. Love the new mechanics and it's a lot easier to carve off sections based on player count.
Fearsome Floors A fun game for up to 7 players, but plays better at lower player counts. I enjoy it, it has a nice mix of randomness and some strategy.
Steam Park Such a great game. It looks wonderful, is easy to explain and new players enjoy it. My new gateway game.
The Witches: A Discworld Game Played twice and erm... I'm not entirely sure what to think. It's good and certainly you feel like a young witch in Lancre. Pacing feels wrong though... I'm not sure that you can tackle the hard problems fast enough.
Elevenses Played late at night with a player who really didn't want to play it, but it still seemed really good (and I've backed it on Kickstarter)
Founders of the Empire It's a pretty light game with pretty simple mechanics... really bought as something to ease people in at NSEG.
Friese's Landlord Pretty good card game, has some take that, but not so much that it's painful. Fun.
Langfinger A very simple and quick worker placement/set collection. Like it.
Glass Road It's an interesting one. Simple and complicated at the same time. I think it's the best game I played in 2013.
Carcassonne: South Seas It's better than Carcassonne! Scoring is much simpler and it's so colorful!
Gear & Piston A fairly simple worker placement where you're really trying to figure out how shoddy you can make your car (like it)
Hello Sunshine! Played with Harley, she might have been too young. Have to try again when she's in the right mood.
Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 4 - Nederland I don't know... is it mean? Seems like you always have a very clear winner. I'd still prefer to play Europe over this one.
Keyflower Everything in this game is interesting but for some reason it didn't grab me by the throat. I'm not sure why.
Fünf Gurken We played with too many players and my group hated it.
Innovation I like it. It's swingy but fun. Tempted to get it, but unsure of which version is better.
Corto I played very poorly... got obsessed by the train. Few things I missed in the bi-lingual rules translation, but even so don't think I really need to run out and get it.
Assault on Doomrock (incomplete) Seems fun. Played until after a battle. Not sure how replaybility will be or if an entire game will stay interesting, but will definetly check it out when it comes out.
Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas Monks trying to get books by rotating and shifting platforms. Disliked it, too much downtime and no real ability to plan during the downtime...
Continental Express An OK set collection game with nice artwork. Quite fillery.
Mount Everest K2 does it better.
Trains and Stations I went into this expecting it to be good, was disappointed. Time seemed to drag during the game.... can't work out why I didn't like it though.
Clacks: A Discworld Game Reallllly like this one. Can't wait for it to come out. Play cards to flip discs in order to make the letters of your message. Sure that sounds boring but between your turns other players are doing the same thing on the same board. It's fun!
Eminent Domain I like it, will need to get it to the table again. An interesting deck builder/role selection game.
Tsuro For a filler, it does what it does well. It's quick and no one really cares about winning too much.
Le Havre: The Inland Port Certainly an interesting 2 player game. Doesn't overstay it's welcome, but probably not something I could get Sharon to play.
Power Grid: The First Sparks Something different. It's good and probably should get it back to the table. Borrows some mechanics from Power Grid, but very much it's own game.
The Great Heartland Hauling Co. Fun quick light pick up and deliver. Good filler.
Saint Petersburg Mixed feelings on this one. It feels crushing, but I feel like I could play it better and so I want to play it again. But then I play it again and again feel like it's crushing me, but still I want to play it again. Ergh.
Love Letter Quick light deduction game. Love it.
Fish Cook It's got dice, it's got weird fish dishes, you can steal recipes off each other... It's just great. And it's cheap!
Biblios Thought I'd like it more than I actually did. It's an OK game.
Sentinels of the Multiverse I like the characters and I like the gameplay, but feels like sometimes it's more complicated than it needs to be. But it's still fun and something that I should try and get to the table more often.
Seasons An interesting in concept game (though there are some cards I wish weren't in the game). Feels very much like you just play out the cards that you draft at the start. Game can bog down when it's somewhat important which dice are used (in a 2 or 3 player game) or when someone has the ability to reroll a dice. Still an enjoyable game.
Escape: The Curse of the Temple This was the most played of 2013... with good reason. It's quick, fun and that good kind of tense. Kind of hard without the soundtrack (which limits it's plays at NSEG) but still doable.
Carcassonne: The Discovery The colour pallette and art style make this game difficult to play and to quote someone else "it doesn't feel like Carcassonne". Isn't as good as standard Carcassonne.
Lords of Waterdeep I'm aware that many many people love this game... but it's just OK for me. It just doesn't tickle me in any way. Maybe if I was more invested in the theme? Not sure...
Tahiti Another small pick up and deliver. Feels like it's over too fast?
Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar Melted my brain. Did pretty well though. Interesting concept, wonder if I'll improve with multiple plays.
Fluxx: The Board Game Better than Fluxx. Stupid pegs kept popping out though. Quick. Wonder how it plays with more than 2.
Star Munchkin It's Munchkin with a sci-fi theme. I like sci-fi. I don't seem to like Munchkin. Star Munchkin changes neither of these preferences.
Caylus Interesting. Theme is pasted on (oh... I'm building a castle... sure...), but I like the concept of the action track and the Provost. Would be interested in playing again.
Portobello Market Felt quick, seemed like the game ended just as it was getting interesting.
Sutter's Mill I like the concept of choosing when to teardown, but the game didn't really do it for me. Don't get me wrong, there are other decisions to make in the game but that changing into teardown is so important that it almost feels like it's the decision which will win or lose you the game.... Not rushing to play it again.
Shadows over Camelot For some reason people think I don't like this game... I like it more than I like Resistance because you have more reasons to accuse people of being a traitor. And I like the theme. But it's not something that I want to play on a regular basis. But this has more to do with the fact that any traitor/bluffing game is somewhat out of my comfort zone and so it to some degree feels really hard for me to do (I probably should think about this some more and discuss in a separate post). Ah... and the turns feel long and there's a fair bit of stress. But of it's type, it's the best I've played.
Rumble in the Dungeon Quick, stupid fun with a bit of strategy thrown in. You probably won't care who wins, but it's fun while it lasts.
Get Bit! Lovely game... just wish that they had have got a licence from LEGO so that the robots were figs too.
Onirim An odd one. It's an enjoyable solo game, a little too easy perhaps? Will have to play with the variants.
Cosmic Encounter A take that game where you can't really be blamed for smacking someone... Suffers a bit from the Munchkin syndrome where all the players catch up to the winner at the end. Not my style of game but really enjoyable.
Pandemic It'd be nice to win this one. Not as accessible as Flash Point Fire Rescue, probably more of a gamers game. Seems to turn on a dime though, feels like you can be going well and then within a turn you've just lost. But perhaps this is more to do with me not being as aware of the game's structure than a fault of the game itself.
Node Area control in 10-15 minutes. Nice.
Morels A good game that is hampered by having to constantly slide the cards down the table. Perhaps sleeving would help.
Copycat What happens when you combine Dominion, Through the Ages and Agricola? Copycat! It shouldn't work but it does. Makes for an interesting change... just feel that the game is a bit too short for the deck building to do what deck building should. We messed up with some of the iconography... Still it's a good game, well worth your attention.
TransAmerica Have only played the once and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Feels less complicated than Ticket To Ride and plays a lot faster. Not sure how samey it would get after multiple play throughs.
Ghost Stories Played through and beat it on easy (the second time we played). It's fun, but you expect to lose and it's interesting to see how long you can hold out. An enjoyable co-op with fun stress.
Antike More enjoyable than Navegador for some reason. I like the concept of the Rondel and the idea that you have to do different things to get enough of the cultural personalities to win... but the fact that you basically almost have to do all the different things in order to win lets it down somewhat.
Rattus It's an enjoyable play, but I never find myself wondering what I should have done or what I would do next time.... strange...
Ker Plunk A very tense game where you need to figure out which straw to pull in order to avoid having marble(s) fall out. Edge of your seat action.
Unexpected Treasures Another unexpected treasure from 2F. A nice filler that is quick to teach and fun to play.
Power Grid: Factory Manager Nice and streamlined, plays relatively quickly. Provides enough strategy but doesn't become overly mathy (until maybe the last turn where you want to optimise the double revenue)
Small World I appear not to be in love with this game. There's too much downtime and while there's some player interaction, it just didn't hit me in the right spot. Just doesn't feel like there's enough choice... game could almost play itself.
Funny Friends (Incomplete) Seems like an interesting game, but the phone mechanics are just so damn difficult to nut out. Sharon was a bit perplexed as to why you'd want to achieve the life goals (more from a moral perspective than a rules perspective). Game ended midway through as we just couldn't figure it out. This one is going to be hard to get to the table again.
Zombie Dice It's a push your luck. Quick, but I don't feel overly invested during other people's turns. Prefer King of Tokyo.
LEGO Champion A race game that contains bunch of minigames that are randomly determined. The minigames vary in quality, but it's a LEGO game, so after one game you work out which ones aren't to your taste and replace them with something that you come up with yourself. It's like Cranium: Legacy.
Bananagrams An enjoyable and quick word game where you compete for letters from the center (Galaxy Trucker style).
Forbidden Island played co-op with a 10 year old (I think). He was very firm that what he said were the rules, were the rules and that the rulebook was wrong. We won. Would be interesting to play with the actual rules....
Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small Without the stress of feeding your people this becomes a quite relaxing game and quite a pleasent way to spend half an hour. Seems to make sleeping babies restless though (2 different plays, 2 different babies).
Agricola Just played this one twice, going to take a lot more plays to figure out how to get the cards working in tandem with everything else. But... Caverna seems to take out everything I don't like about Agricola.... but I just bought Agricola in 2013...
Citadels Like the idea of the game, but it just runs so much longer than I want it too.
Last Will Love the theme (Brewster's millions) and the artwork. Flipping the standard so that you're trying to use all of your money is delightful. Great game.
The Cave Again an interesting idea for a game, love the theme, but it lacks any real tension. Nowhere near the heights of K2.
Survive: Escape from Atlantis! The only Ameritrash game in my collection... I like it but it's hard to contend with the need for conflict and the niceties of gaming (this is vague I agree... but I'll probably post something on the subject of Ameritrash and I).
Heroica: Draida A cute little LEGO dungeon crawl. Base rules don't provide much depth, but could be house ruled to something interesting (maybe trying out the Battle variant on BGG?) Has some nice microfigs though, so always good.


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I have never been fond of the tile surround which is a terracotta tile .... please send me ideas!!! Looking for a more sophisticated look for my living room!
Sounds like you already figured out one option, Rina. Upgrade the tile and you've upgraded the f/p - say to stone or marble, whatever you prefer, depending on the overall look/style you'd like.
Good Luck!
Depending on style of decor, perhaps a glass style mosaic would appeal to your design esthetic. There are lots of tile options to consider. A recent poster upgraded her surround with a Moroccan inspired tile.
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I just wanted to say that I really love your fireplace!!! It is unique and seems that it would be easy to use different colors/patterns with it.
Many times the colors and patterns of tiles seem to limit the versatility of decorating.
I think your fireplace is adorable. I just love how it's rounded.
I understand though you wanting to change it up a bit. I think changing out the tile is a good option.
Can we see pics of the rest of the room?
SJF-You are SO gonna get it! They have some awesome tiles! Eventually, we will be doing a bath reno and I want to use some unique tile treatments that are both attractive for today but still compatible with the style of our 1940s house. Looks like they have some great products to bridge the decades while remaining appropriate for the future. Thanks for the intro!
What would be pretty would be a beautiful slate for the front and opening. Paint the rest of the fireplace with a complimenting color picking up a color from the slate. For the mantle, how about having a beautiful custom wood mantle made stained in a warm finish?
IF the fireplace were mine, I would google pictures of fireplaces and use molding to spiff it up. From what little I can see of your room, it looks pretty traditional. I would think molding like columns and maybe appliques would beef up the mantel so much that the tile would no longer bother you.
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View of Trier from Mariensauele
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Germany? Before the beginning there was Ginnungagap, an empty space of nothingness, filled with pure creative power. (Sort of like the inside of my head.)
And it ends with Ragnarok, the twilight of the Gods. In between is much fighting, betrayal and romance. Just as a good Godly story should be.
Heroes have their own graveyard called Valhalla. Unfortunately we cannot show you a panorama of it at this time, nor of the lovely Valkyries who are its escort service.
Hail Odin, wandering God wielding wisdom and wand! Hail Freya, hail Tyr, hail Thor!
Odin made the many lakes and the fish in them. In his traverses across the lands he caused there to be the Mulheim Bridge in Cologne, as did he make the Mercury fountain, Mercury being of his nature.
But it is to the mighty Thor that the Hammering Man gives service.
Between the time of the Nordic old ones and that of modern Frankfort there may have been a T.Rex or two on the scene. At least some mastodons for sure came through for lunch, then fell into tar pits to become fossils for us to find.
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Hello, my name is Christopher (Chris) Larsen. I am a lifelong Washington State resident, spending most of my time in the Seattle area, with a few years in Ellensburg at Central Washington University. At CWU I received a B.A. in both Psychology and Law & Justice (specializing in pre-law). I decided during my senior year that I wanted to go to law school, but after a disappointing LSAT attempt, I opted to get a few years of work experience. After my wife and I moved back to the Seattle area, I began working at ABC Legal Services. During the span of three years I worked in various departments and gained experience in many areas of process service. This was my first professional experience in the legal industry and it increased my desire to attend law school and take on more responsibility. Outside of law school, I am a huge Seattle sports fan and I attend Seahawks' and Sounders' games when I find time. I also enjoy hiking and backpacking with my wife up in the Cascades and out on the Olympic Peninsula.
Spring break—most likely my last ever—is officially over and the push towards graduation, employment, and the bar exam is here! My break was simultaneously restful and busy. I am generally not sleep deprived, but during the weeks leading up to Spring break I was feeling exhausted and needing time to decompress. To that end, I was busy almost every day with editing assignments, job searching, and networking.
I am sure I have mentioned this in previous entries, but it cannot be emphasized enough how important it is to network and utilize LinkedIn. If you are not already signed up for LinkedIn, I recommend doing it now—send me a message and we will connect. Many employers only post opportunities because it is required by law, but many positions are filled via personal referral. As I am searching for employment, I am constantly connecting with new people on LinkedIn and working with my current connections to locate opportunities and get interviews. For instance, last week one of my connections emailed me a lead for a potential position and within minutes I was on the phone with a recruiter discussing my application materials and potential opportunities.
I know this seems like an advertisement for LinkedIn, but it is the best way to keep in contact with and foster professional relationships. You never know when an opportunity may present itself and having someone in your corner at the firm or corporation is what sets you apart from other applicants.
February is a very strange month. A few weeks ago it felt as though the new semester was just beginning and there was plenty of time to finish everything; however, it now feels as though the semester is getting away from me and the stress of final exams/papers, finalizing SJEL Volume 4, and preparing for life after law school is all hitting me. Alternatively, I am not sure stress is the right word to describe how I am feeling. I'd like to analogize it to the feeling you have before partaking in a sporting or public speaking event. I was a competitive swimmer in high school and I would always feel nervous and excited before a race. I knew I had put in all the work to be successful but the true measure of success would only be realized after jumping in head first. Similarly, I have worked hard in law school—harder than at anything else I have previously done—and I feel that I can be successful, but this may not be realized until I get the opportunity to dive in.
Sticking with the swimming theme, I am finally taking the advice I was given during 1L orientation: find a healthy way to relieve stress. As noted, I was a competitive swimmer in high school and during the past month I have re-acquired my love of swimming. I am trying to swim for about an hour twice per week (hopefully I can increase to 3-4 times per week) and it has been the best method for keeping my focus. Not only is it a great full body exercise, but it is extremely meditative. For instance, I have a 7+ hour break between classes on Tuesdays and prior to this month is was very difficult to maintain focus during this break. However, swimming during the lunch hour allows me to clear my mind and I always feel energized and ready to put in a strong study/work session afterwards. I encourage everyone to find a similar activity that has the same affect and stick to it during law school. Looking back, I wish I had made swimming a priority during my 1L and 2L years as I am clearly seeing a benefit now.
Normally, I try and keep my journal entry limited to my law school experiences, but today I am shedding a little light on another experience--outside the confines of law school.
The Seahawks are going to the Super Bowl! I have attended all but a handful of games since 1998 and Sunday was the most exciting game I have ever been to—given the magnitude of the game and the opponent. There may have been more exciting single moments in past games (Romo's botched snap, the "Beast Quake," and Golden Tate's game winning reception against Green Bay), but nothing quite reaches the magnitude of Seattle beating their rivals in the NFC Championship game.
Bringing it back to law school, I am proud to say I have officially started my final semester! It is amazing how quickly the past two and half years have passed. I can vividly remember my first law school course in the Summer of 2011 and all the apprehension and excitement I felt as I began this journey. As I sit here today, I feel a similar sense of apprehension and excitement. Unlike some of my classmates, I have yet to find post-graduate employment. This largely contributes to my anxiety but also serves as encouragement to continue pursuing what I enjoy. I continually remind myself that I will not be settling for any opportunity I may find. I am open about what I would like to do and not limiting my search to traditional legal positions. I have spent a lot of time thinking about my future and I consider the J.D. to be an extremely versatile degree. A fellow classmate of mine may have said it best, "a law degree is a professional problem solving degree." Law school teaches you to think a certain way—to spot issues and propose means of solving them within the certain confines. With this general definition in mind, the number of opportunities available to those holding a J.D. should be endless. I encourage anyone interested to look up some of the most successful people in the world and note their education. While MBAs will be prevalent, I'd venture to guess that the J.D. would not be far behind.
November 2013
Winter is coming. And so are final exams. After two years, one would think I would be ready for another round of exams, but this might be the most challenging exam period I have faced; three exams in seven days with a take home exam to complete at my leisure. Fortunately, my classes are all interesting and ones I believe will help me in my career, but that does not lessen the amount of preparation required, it only makes it more interesting. That said, I have officially registered for my last semester of law school and I am hoping it is a little more relaxing (from an academic standpoint). I only have 8 credits required for graduation, so I will be taking Corporate Governance, Broadcast Regulation in the Age of the Internet, and Advertising Law. My hope is to have more time to network, perform my duties as SJEL editor in chief, and perhaps most important, spend time with my wife. Fortunately, following final exams I will have a few weeks off and my wife and I have already planned for a much needed escape to celebrate our anniversary (December 22).
October 2013
October has been an absolute blur. The common saying, "1L year scares you to death, 2L year works you to death, and 3L year bores you to death," is certainly not holding true. While my 1L year and 2L years were busy, the added pressure of finding employment, gaining experience, preparing Bar materials, choosing a Bar prep course, and juggling extracurricular activities is certainly making my 3L year the busiest yet. However, it is a different kind of busy-less time crunch and more stress. Doing well in class is always important, but there is much more emphasis on post-law school responsibilities. For instance, I have been spending much of the past two weeks preparing for the MPRE (Professional Responsibility portion of the Bar Exam), which will be held in two days.
It is exciting to think about life after law school, but there is a certain level of comfort being a student in the confines of Sullivan Hall. To that end, I am feeling prepared for the next step and looking forward to beginning my career and starting a family with my wife.
September 2013
It's great to be a 3L! I feel rested and reinvigorated after an amazing summer. I was an extern at Wizards of the Coast, gaining valuable licensing, negotiating, and in-house experience, and then took a three week adventure with my wife to Southern California. Working at Wizards has been the highlight of my short legal career. I am interested in licensing, specifically intellectual property, and this opportunity provided me with extremely valuable and practical experience. While I did draft a couple research memos, nearly all my other assignments allowed me to revise, draft, and negotiate various license agreements. Perhaps most exciting was the opportunity to negotiate with a network television producer the terms of an agreement for product placement. Once the externship concluded, my wife and I took a much needed vacation and drove to Palm Springs. We were determined to make this an adventure and certainly accomplished that task. We slept in our car one night at a truck stop, spent two days walking all over San Francisco, conveniently drove through Los Angeles during rush hour traffic, and finally spent almost two weeks attempting to stay cool in the desert in August. The temperatures never dropped below 85 degrees (at night) and reached 108 degrees daily. We spent a lot of time relaxing in the pool, but even this did not provide much relief during the afternoon heat. Most importantly, this trip gave my wife and I time to spend together without any other obligations. My advice to anyone married or in a relationship while attending law school is to cherish the moments you have with your significant other because during classes these moments become much less frequent.
March 2013
Spring break is officially over and the push to final exams begins. I'm always amazed at how quickly time goes by during law school. I vividly remember how I felt during my 1L summer criminal law class, and that was nearly two years ago! It seems like I am still getting a grasp on everything, but the stress and excitement of life after law school is slowly hitting me. Conversations with friends is always about networking and searching for jobs, and far less about the classes we want to take. I guess it's the reality of the 3L year being largely about gaining experience and finding employment.
As I mentioned in my previous entry, I also have the added responsibility of being the editor-in-chief (EIC) of the Seattle Journal of Environmental Law. While I could not be more excited about the opportunity, it is forcing me to make some sacrifices. For example, I made the difficult decision today to forego applying for the Amazon.com internship. Rather than the more typical summer position, this required a commitment of part-time availability during the entire upcoming academic year. It would have been a great experience, but probably impossible while trying to juggle a full class schedule and EIC responsibilities.
However, I did receive some great news last week! I have an interview with Weyerhaeuser, which from the outset would appear to be a perfect fit with my position on the Environmental Journal. As is probably apparent, my focus is much more on gaining experience than my classes, but I must attest that I am still spending hours reading for each class. Fortunately, at the conclusion of this semester I will have completed every required class, so it should set me up for a more enjoyable 3L year, even with the added responsibilities. Here's to making it through the final full month of the semester and another grueling round of final exams!
February 2013
There is not a lot to report from an academic standpoint. Classes are progressing nicely, and I am continuing to enjoy a semester free from Legal Writing. This has afforded me much more time to read through study guides and better prepare for each of my classes. Hopefully that will result in a better performance come finals!
Outside of the classroom, I have some very exciting news! I was just selected to be the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the Seattle Journal of Environmental Law (SJEL). Academic writing and editing has always been something I enjoy (dating back to high school) so to be selected as EIC is a huge accomplishment and I am very excited about the opportunity. In a couple weeks I should begin training for my new position, and that will allow me to put my mark on the upcoming issue of the journal. I encourage anyone who has questions about the journal to reach out to me as I am always willing and excited to talk about my experience with the journal. I will be sure to continue updating with my progression from staff editor to EIC and perhaps discuss some of my plans for the future. Generally, my goal is to oversee the continued growth of what is a relatively new journal at Seattle University.
January 2013
It's hard to believe, but I am over the law school hump! I had a very relaxing break and was able to get away with my wife to Southern California. We spent most of our trip enjoying sunshine in Palm Springs and managed to spend a couple days at Disneyland — a perfect end to what was ultimately a difficult semester. Winter break is probably the one time of year where I know I will be free of all school related responsibilities, so it was nice to leave law school behind for a couple weeks and simply enjoy the freedom.
While I was initially wishing break could have been longer, it's nice to be back in class, and it is especially nice having a lighter schedule than last semester. I have thoroughly enjoyed legal writing, but this semester will provide a much needed break. It's also perfectly timed because it should give me a few months to finalize my article for the Seattle Journal of Environmental Law. Word to the wise, only join a journal if you can be truly committed and have amazing time management skills. It's far more work than anticipated, but in the end I know I will be better for it. Besides the pride I have in writing my own article, the editing component allows you to put your work into someone else's article. A couple weeks ago I was given notice that the article I helped edit last semester had been published; it was very rewarding to see pieces of my work portrayed in published form.
As mentioned, the lack of legal writing has given me a very nice schedule. Although unrelated to the omission of legal writing, I have managed to avoid evening classes for the semester! I am taking Evidence, Financial Institutions Law, Administrative Law, and Trusts and Estates. It's a lighter class schedule because I have also opted to take 2 credits as part of SJEL. Through the first couple weeks, I could not be happier. The professors are all great, and I am very much enjoying the content-even Admin Law which is supposedly a dry subject. Perhaps I am finding my niche because up until now I have been very unsure of my future plans. I am beginning to consider beyond traditional legal careers, but at the suggestion of the center for professional development (CPD), I am exploring areas of the law that I may not had recently considered. I am not keen on the adversarial process (i.e., litigation), so exploring areas that are centered on compliance or regulatory is a priority. It's currently crunch time for finding summer work, so we will have to see where I land. Stay tuned!
December 2012
Winter break is finally here and I am half way through law school. Perhaps what is my biggest accomplishment is the completion of what will likely be my most demanding semester of law school. Finals were tough, but not nearly as difficult as anticipated or what I experienced last year. I think it is part of the growth from a 1L to a 2L and having the freedom to select some of my courses.
Serving as a Staff Editor on the Seattle Journal of Environmental Law has been very demanding. Editing has come naturally to me, but writing my article has been a struggle. It is difficult to find a new and interesting legal topic that is not preempted by another article. Further, completing a quality thirty-page draft a couple weeks before finals was very challenging. It may not seem like it, but I am enjoying the experience and look forward to a lighter spring class schedule that allows me to spend more time completing my article.
With that, I am looking forward to spending the next few weeks relaxing and resting in preparation of next semester. I do not have much planned, but my primary goal is to significantly increase my connections and hopefully find employment for next summer and possibly beyond.
Happy Holidays!
August 2012
It's hard to believe the grind of my 2L year has already started, and supposedly this will be my most demanding year of law school. I am taking Legal Writing II (LWII), Constitutional Law (Con Law), Professional Responsibility (PR), Copyright Law, IP Licensing Lab, and I am a Staff Editor for the Seattle Journal of Environmental Law. I tried to mix in some less demanding classes (Copyright and PR) while taking LWII and Con Law, but I am learning there really isn't such a thing as a less demanding law class, only more interesting. Likewise, for anyone considering a position with one of the journals, be prepared for an extensive amount of additional work (editing articles to be published and working on your own article).
I have been pleasantly surprised with Con Law, as it was a class I feared, but it has definitely been my favorite class during the first couple weeks. I highly recommend Professor Skover as he has made the less "sexy" (his word) topics, such as Federalism and the Commerce Clause, interesting. LWII is living up to the high demand that is to be expected from the #1 Legal Writing Program in the country. Our first assignment was handed out on day 1, practice oral arguments took place during the second week of the semester, and research logs are due at the beginning of week 3. LWI was my favorite course during 1L year, so I am hoping for more of the same during LWII.
Outside the classroom, it's been a struggle keeping to the books with it so nice outside. I enjoy the Seattle summers as much as anyone, but I could really go for a few weeks of clouds and rain to keep me from feeling so bad about being stuck inside. It also doesn't help that football season is finally here. Prior to law school I had attended every home Seahawks game during the past five seasons, but last year I only made it to one game. I know football will be around long after law school, but it has been a tough sacrifice to make.


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(WND) — Jared Lee Loughner, the suspected gunman in Saturday's Arizona shooting, attended a high school that is part of a network in which teachers are trained and provided resources by a liberal group founded by Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers and funded by President Obama, WND has learned.
The group, Small Schools Workshop, has been led by a former top communist activist who is an associate of Ayers. Obama provided the group with funds in the 1990s when he worked at an education reform group alongside Ayers.
Loughner attended Mountain View High School, which is part of Arizona's Morana Unified School District. Since 2003, Mountain View has been part of what is known as the Smaller Learning Community, a network of schools that have been restructured to create a more personalized learning environment where students often have the same teachers and fellow students from grade to grade.
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The high school received grants to research the concepts of Smaller Learning Communities and work to implement them.
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Smaller Learning Communities had its conceptual genesis in 1991, when Ayers founded a group, Small Schools Workshop, which provides training and resources to teach schools on how to implement the Smaller Learning Communities.
Small Schools Workshop is a recommended agent for how to implement smaller schools curriculum, including at Loughner's alma mater, Mountain View.
Ayers' Small Schools Workshop has the stated goal of providing support for teachers who want to create smaller learning environments. Ayers reportedly recruited a radical activist, Mike Klonsky, to head the Workshop. Klonsky still serves as director.
The Small School Workshop originally was associated with the University of Illinois in Chicago, where Klonsky previously taught in the education department alongside Ayers, who retired from the university last year. The group was headquartered for a time inside the university's department of education building.
In 1995, with Obama as its chairman, the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or CAC, a school reform organization, gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000. The CAC provided another $482,662 to the Workshop over the next few years.


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I am thinking they are stickons. Buccaneers is backwards.
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It's Lamond.
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