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king of tokyo boardgame

16:27 Sunday 25 October 2015 JST

At Travis and Yumi's house playing King of Tokyo,

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/70323/king-tokyo

https://www.amazon.com/IELLO-IEL-51032-King-Tokyo/dp/B004U5R5BI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Tokyo

https://www.facebook.com/KingOfTokyoGame

a fun analog game with dice and random cards to add chance, and the option of re-rolling dice to give some strategy. We were playing with 5 players, so it was mostly a game of staying alive moreso than using the cards to do tricksy stuff.

I lost, Johan won!

relic expedition board game

16:49 Sunday 25 October 2015 JST

Now we're playing Relic Expedition,

https://foxtrotgames.com/relic-expedition/

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/138614/relic-expedition

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/foxtrotgames/relic-expedition-a-jungle-adventure-game

https://www.amazon.com/Relic-Expedition/dp/B00HANDYBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM4Ifgln4Xo

which is far more complicated. :-)

Relic Expedition features a lot more strategy; there are far more options available per player per turn, including cases where each player gets to move NPCs during another player's turn.

voom voom vacuum

21:46 Sunday 25 October 2015 JST

Lin and I have been looking at vacuum cleaners recently, wavering between Electrolux and Dyson, and now wondering if we really need a new one at all. She was thinking 20,000 yen at first, and now we're in the 60,000 yen range. Hmm.

If it lasts 5 years, that's 1000 yen per month.

why grouchy

12:40 Sunday 25 October 2015 JST

Why do I get so grouchy when I have to repeat myself. I see the words "have to" there, but I mean when I say something and Lin didn't hear me/ didn't understand me/ wasn't listening, and she goes, "what?" (or says nothing at all.)

Hideo at CPC repeats himself all the time because he's often in charge of 10 or 15 people, all of whom are kinda doing their own thing, or possibly on different schedules.

I'm always so impressed when I see people repeat themselves for people who weren't listening. I fucking hate it. What's triggering that hate/anger?

Back in Houston, I was looking at this issue, and had a spontaneous memory which I'm calling a memory from a past life because, well, I remember telling my army buddy he was loading a weapon incorrectly, and after he didn't listen, he was killed by it when he fired it.

I was never in the army so it's an interesting memory for me.

But there's still more triggering this thing because crying about my army buddy's death doesn't seem to have resolved everything.

Speaking English in Japan gives me ample opportunity to look at this issue.