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Urgh, Yuck, Bleurgh, etc.
Nov. 20th, 2005 09:52 pmI had chicken legs and salad today for lunch - I'd picked up the chicken legs cheap at the supermarket, and a couple of bags of mixed salad. The salad came out of the packet slightly wet, and soggy, which was a pain. I tried some of it, but it was fairly inedible - so I assumed that it had been too close to the back of the fridge (which is slightly dodgy and tends to freeze things if you leave them touching the back). I left the rest of the salad, slightly annoyed that having only bought it yesterday it fell apart so easily.
And then I went to the fridge to make some dinner, and discovered a different pack of salad. Well, I say different, I mean "The one I bought yesterday.", as I have just discovered that the one I tried for lunch was a pack that Ed must have bought and left in the back of the fridge - the date on which was the 29th of October... The salad from yesterday is actually still fine, and nicely crunchy. So I'll be eating it for dinner...
In other news, the weekend has involved much boardgaming.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dalglir phoned me last night around 8-ish, on his way back from dropping dalglivk off at work, and spirited me away to his place, where he introduced me to Carcassonne: The Castle, which was an interesting variant on the Carcassonne premise.
Today, I was chatting to Hugh at midday, and talking about games, when he said that he had nothing planned for the afternoon. I suggested I drop round for a game of something, he phoned a couple of people, and in the end we spent 5 hours playing Britannia, a game with a play mechanic I've not seen before - you don't necessarily score points for gaining the most territory, but for claiming specific, historically accurate territory. So there's no point having your Belgae tribe sweep north into Scotland and steal Pictish lands, they gain victory points for fighting the Romans. Oh, and each person controls multiple different tribes, which come onto the board in different turns, as different groups invade Britain. The game starts with Julius Caesar in 45BC, and works up to the Norwegian and Norman invasions of the 11th century. Of course, individual tactics and dice rolls don't tend do go according to plan, which may explain why the Welsh were squeezed into extinction between the Saxons and the Irish, and the Picts managed to successfully beat back the Scots. Well worth a look, and you might even learn something.
And then I went to the fridge to make some dinner, and discovered a different pack of salad. Well, I say different, I mean "The one I bought yesterday.", as I have just discovered that the one I tried for lunch was a pack that Ed must have bought and left in the back of the fridge - the date on which was the 29th of October... The salad from yesterday is actually still fine, and nicely crunchy. So I'll be eating it for dinner...
In other news, the weekend has involved much boardgaming.
dalglir phoned me last night around 8-ish, on his way back from dropping dalglivk off at work, and spirited me away to his place, where he introduced me to Carcassonne: The Castle, which was an interesting variant on the Carcassonne premise.Today, I was chatting to Hugh at midday, and talking about games, when he said that he had nothing planned for the afternoon. I suggested I drop round for a game of something, he phoned a couple of people, and in the end we spent 5 hours playing Britannia, a game with a play mechanic I've not seen before - you don't necessarily score points for gaining the most territory, but for claiming specific, historically accurate territory. So there's no point having your Belgae tribe sweep north into Scotland and steal Pictish lands, they gain victory points for fighting the Romans. Oh, and each person controls multiple different tribes, which come onto the board in different turns, as different groups invade Britain. The game starts with Julius Caesar in 45BC, and works up to the Norwegian and Norman invasions of the 11th century. Of course, individual tactics and dice rolls don't tend do go according to plan, which may explain why the Welsh were squeezed into extinction between the Saxons and the Irish, and the Picts managed to successfully beat back the Scots. Well worth a look, and you might even learn something.
