more bits of my absence

I have developed an addiction to Puerto Rico. It’s a neat game, requiring at least 3 players and up to 5 players. Players plant fields of crops, build buildings (each of which does some special thing), import “colonists” (brown colonists, and you choose the work they do. Hmmm, I wonder) to work on those fields and/or buildings, and produce goods which you then sell for money or ship for points. Buildings are also worth points, and in the end, shocker, the person with the most points wins.

It’s a little complicated (I glossed over alot of detail in that description). I like it lots. Unfortunately, I think it’s wearing thin on the people I know who like such games. But a new game store in berkeley has gaming nights on tuesdays. And I still like the other games in the genre. Hrm.

Anyway. Other things.

Recently started going to express 20’s at the pacific center. A very friendly group of guys. Not heavy on the analytical types, but not bad for occasional mass social interaction.

Also went to a Renn fair in Novato. Turns out one of the guys I went with knew the first guy I fooled around with (where consent was never an issue, anyway). Also, party in the city.

Last night, went out to dinner with . Original plans were for the cheesecake factory, but my vegan-ness was saved by the line, so we went to Lucky Creation, followed by dessert at herbivore. Afterwards went to express 20’s party at someone’s apartment, significantly smaller than my own, yet more packed than, say, the dore alley street fair, on a person/sq ft basis. I wished Dan (whom I barely know, but is going back to Nawlins soon) a safe voyage, and bugged out.

I think I’m just not a party kind of guy. Which is a shame, because that seems to be the best way to meet friends of friends, which, I’m told, is the best way to find someone compatible. And I mostly believe it. Ah well.