I entered this journal entry on the 12th. I’m trying to catch up to the current day while still listing all the things that have happened to me. So this is a little weird. I’ll try speaking in the present tense about things that happened in the past.
I worked late again to try and get the product ready for Monday. Thankfully I haven’t been told when on Monday, so I’m hoping for some leeway there. It looks like I’ll need to come in on the weekend to get everything done.
However I had planned my first “Random Acts of Gaming” for the new year today. RAOG is an event I have occasionally where some friends get together and play some games. Not D&D, but anything that someone brings. It’s a fun way to force myself to play all the games I’ve purchased over the years.
So tonight we decided to finally play “Empire Builder”. We started at 7:00 with just three players. From the first turn Cameron was saying he was going to lose. He had made a mistake that essentially made him lose a turn. Of course in the end he won. That’s because I kept drawing disasters that effectively made Andrew and me lose a turn.
We finished the game at 2:30 in the morning. The box said it was a three hour game. After midnight you could tell our decisions were getting loopier. I watched Cameron determine he had to build a straight railroad line to Regina, despite having previously built one nearby, so that he could save a bit of time on one delivery. He probably spent more making the railroad than he did on the delivery.
Being up so late was a problem, because I have an appointment at 10:15 on Saturday morning to get my hair cut.