Friday was board games night at a friend’s place. I did the usual grocery pickup in the morning, followed by four ethics classes. I’m having fun with the current topic of “An Ethical Society”. One of the interesting questions for the variety of responses is as follows:
Imagine that we could somehow make a society where everyone behaves ethically. Would such a society still need laws?
About half the kids have been saying that yes, you should have laws just in case someone does something wrong, because if you don’t have them, then there’s no way to enforce any way of stopping them. A few said you need them just to remind people, to set the boundaries of what behaviour is okay and what is not—even if nobody is stepping over the line, you still need the line to be drawn there. And a third group said no, you don’t actually need laws, because everyone is (according to the premise) behaving ethically, so nothing can go wrong.
After classes I drove over to the friend’s place for games. We played three different games, all new to me: [one I can’t remember the name of, where everyone drafts 8 cards from a central pool, and they combo in various ways to score points – the description is so generic I can’t search for it successfully, and the theme was so non-evident that I have no idea what it was; but it was actually fun and we played it twice], Forest Shuffle, and Kingdomino Origins (which I’d been wanting to thy for several weeks, always arriving at games night after the others, just when they’re packing it up).
Edit: As identified in the comments, the mystery game was Faraway.
This morning I did my 5k run, and for the first time since January recorded a time below 27:30, which is what I like to aim for as I can manage it about 50% of the time. The past few weeks have been messed up by high temperatures and humidity, travel, and being out of practice due to the time spent travelling. The cooler autumn weather is definitely making things feel nicer at the moment.
Scully is doing a lot better. Her poops are blood-free, but still a little soft, perhaps due to the antibiotics. So presumably it was some sort of gastro infection, which the antibiotics are fixing up.
A big task accomplished today was booking accommodation for our trip to Europe in June/July. We’re moving around and staying in five different cities, so had a lot of options to browse through and choose and then book. But we managed to book them all. The next step will be thinking about the train trips between cities and working out the best ways to get tickets for those. Some will be Deutsche Bahn, which I’ve used before and have an account with, but some will be with other rail companies as they’ll be traversing countries like Austria and Hungary.
For dinner tonight I made vegetable fajitas. And I’m baking more sourdough rye bread.
