And other things. But for starters, we're still chuckling over the fact we managed to attend two house concerts with two different female folk performers named Dale. If I'd had any kind of foresight, I'd have invited zencuppa east for a house concert to notch the hat trick! We started last Wednesday by meeting starmalachite and stevemb for a trip down to Woodbridge to...

Part one of my Labor Day Weekend TCEP recap (Saturday) is here . I got to the Holiday Inn earlier on Sunday (just before noon) than I had on Saturday. The first game I played was Le Havre , with (among other people) Karl Musser and Seth Cohen . It was a big, complex game with a variety of resources, buildings, transactions, card, tokens … I had to make sure that "Le...

As reported last night , Q and I went to see They Might Be Giants at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. We were dressed for the occasion; Q made each of us t-shirts with TMBG references on them, and I was also wearing a Klingon headpiece. The klingon headpiece was "a prosthetic forehead on my real head", a reference to the song " We Want A Rock " from the Flood album. I didn't bother...

I ganked this one from partywhipple (who didn't see fit to include me in his answers, so I requested the BATF from him): So you've won the Presidential Election and you now have to assign positions in your cabinet. You may ONLY use fellow LJers. (I'm further limiting myself to mutual LJ friends.) Whom do you choose? They don't have to be qualified, by the way, they can be whomever...