Played my first game of 18XX today

Have you seen the movie "Hannibal"? The scene at the end where Dr. Lector has cut the top of Ray Liotta's head off and he is slicing pieces of hs brain off & frying them up? Ray Liotta starts to become non-sensical and confused & starts to drool on himself and becomes incoherent.

That is how I felt after my first 18XX game today. A 7 hour game with explanation.

What is 18XX?

This from wikipedia-

"18XX is the generic term for a series of board games that, with a few exceptions, recreate the building of railroad corporations during the 19th century; individual games within the series use particular years in the 19th century as their title (usually the date of the start of railway development in the area of the world they cover), or "18" plus a two-letter geographical designator (such as 18EU for a game set in the European Union)."

We played 1856 specifically. My head hurtz. I was the total FNG today. Got totally curb stomped. I don't even know how to describe this game. I will revisit this after the shit settles in my head.

Partaaay anticipation e-mail

Hey ya'll-looking forward to this and just updating my calendar. Yes, I broke down and bought a calendar. At the dollar store.

Did you know everything is like, a dollar there? I got the calendar, Comet cleanser, windex, Fiddle Faddle and some Spongebob Squarepants bubbles.

Alas, no games to be had.

So we've got the sombrero and the pinata and the cake and the donkey and the male stripper and the horse tranquilizers. The alcohol is waiting at the bar where the fries will be made and I'll ring the gong that wakes the midget who's going to skydive wearing nothing a clown nose onto the patio. Its all like she requested.

But has the exact time BD on the partaaay?

Psychokinesis experiments - Day #45

Another block of time yesterday spent at the park trying to kill pigeons with the power of my mind. This was in Portland, Oregon.

Later on, speaking with a friend, he said while he was at work at Nike (in Beaverton, Oregon) a whole bunch of pigeons suddenly died.

Success!

I just need to work on my aim. Beaverton is like, 15 miles from where I was.

and that was a good day

Instead of starting with water, I made espresso out of espresso. Drinking it accelerated everything around me and I travelled in time about 30 minutes into the future. That is where I currently reside.

I am transmitting this message from the future. This message is a warning. There are many clowns here in the future. They are everywhere. As far as the eye can see. And... because I'm really good with nun-chuks, they're trying to recruit me to their evil clown posse (not to be confused in any way with the Insane Clown Posse- we're not getting sued again, dammit!).

My advice to you? Don't fall for the "smell the flower" trick.

No wait...listen.. really... I don't see anyway around this. Its going to happen so soon.

You should all maybe just stay in the house today.