Yesterday I was busy with 4 ethics classes, and squeezing in a 2.5k run, as well as picking up Scully from my wife’s work and taking her out for lunch. Well, my lunch, anyway. We went to my favourite Italian bakery and I had a slice of pizza, and they had a special chocolate-orange snail pastry – i.e. pain aux raisins, only no raisins, and with chocolate and candied orange. I like chocolate and orange together, so I had to try it, and it was delicious.
In the evening was in-person games night at a friend’s place. I took my new game—Brew—hoping to play it. But we had five players, and it only supports up to four. So we played a couple of other games instead.
Factory Funner, which involves building whimsical factories by connecting supplies, machines, and storage vats together with pipes. Each turn you add a machine and try to reconnect your pipes to make sure everything keeps working. It costs money to connect pipes, and the machines give you money, so the goal is accumulate the most. It was fun and puzzling.
And then I wanted to get home early because I had to be up early today, so I asked for a short game. We started Lovecraft Letter, a Cthulhu-mythos themed variant of Love Letter (which we’ve played many times before). It adds some cool new features. But one of them is that you can either win the game sane, or insane. To win sane, you need to collect two sane tokens, to win insane you need to collect three insane tokens (they are a bit easier to get). Unfortunately for my desire to leave early, we ended up with each of five players collecting multiple tokens, taking over ten rounds for someone to actually collect enough to win. But it was a lot of fun!
This morning I got up early to drive my wife to the Surry Hills Market, where she was doing another stall to sell her dog bandanas. She wanted to get there at 7am! On the way home I drove along Crown Street in the city – appropriate for today being the coronation of King Charles III. Back home, I took Scully for a walk, cleaned the bathroom/shower, and worked on some Darths & Droids comics.
This evening we want out for dinner to an Indian restaurant. This one is about 3 km walk away, which was pleasant in the cool evening air. I had a house specialty dish I hadn’t tried before: almond pumpkin lamb, which was really nice. Here’s a bit of a view walking towards the restaurant:
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I did not think snail would go with chocolate, I’ll have to try that.