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This is Board Games (Part 1)

This is Pi Day #035.a

Board game week continues and it has forced me to go digging through the cupboard to dust off all sorts of old gaming memories. Like many card-carrying geeks, we spent the better part of our pre-parenting years socializing with friends around a fistful of cards, trading wood for ore, munchkin-questing, or gathering purple trains to finally build that railroad between Duluth and Toronto and win the game.

Then the kids came along, and regular games nights became an annual games night where there was less gaming and more eating and doing those things that parents do. But somehow the legacy has re-blossomed in the fertile imaginations of our progeny and the spark of board game nerdyness has sprouted once again… if not exactly in the form we might have expected.

But hey… a game is a game is a game, right?

Comic: Miss(placed) Congeniality

This is Pi Day #035

It’s the deep, dark days of winter here and as more and more snow falls, the temperatures drop once again, and we need some warm indoor activities to pass the time, out come the board games.

It’s board game week at This is Pi Day!

This week’s Saturday comic portrays a family favourite called Settlers of Catan, a modern classic of resource gathering and skillful negotiation. … and yeah, every once in a while you need to be a bit mean to your fellow players to get the edge.

Comic: Un-touchable

This is Pi Day #027

….aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we’re back.

Is it really December already. Having taken the whole of November off from posting here, I hope you haven’t missed me too much, but in the last month we took a little holiday down o a tropical climate and temporarily escaped the snow, and our computers and left behind all the stress and worry of our chilly, tech-filled life. Thus, it is only appropriate that we kick things off in December with some technology, winter, and work-stress comics.

They’re all lined up for your December enjoyment, starting today with Un-touchable. I’ve been introducing the kid to my nostalgia. Old TV shows (she apparently loves Red Dwarf), classic music (which for me is Def Leppard and The Tragically Hip) and of course all my video gaming favourites… which apparently are not quite at the same standard and can’t quite compete with an iPad or the Nintendo Switcheroo. Who would have guessed?