Posts from 2015
Recap of Some Games I Played in December
I've had a very active month of gaming so far! Here's a recap of the highlights: Nations – played this with Jacob and Matthew and got destroye...
Recent Gaming: Churchill, Food Chain Magnate, ASL, and more
I go through odd but apparently predictable gaming cycles each year. Julie and I were on the road and in Ireland for about two months from late August to lat...
August 2015 Business Update
We are officially through our first six months of our business launch, and July was an amazing month. In addition to launching our site focused on travel pla...
Games for Keuka Lake and Ireland
Now that I've talked about what's coming up next, it's time to talk about how I'll manage to keep playing games while being away from my collection for nearl...
Our Next Chapter, Five Months Later
Julie and I are nearly 5 months into our next chapter and I'm going to share some updates on how things are going. I mentioned then that I was starting a new...
Matthew is Headed to West Point
Some of you have been following this blog for a long time, so have seen many posts of me playing games with my sons, photos of me watching their various spo...
Tactical Wargaming: Advanced Squad Leader and Combat Commander
Continuing my weekly wargaming sessions with Doug, we've fallen down the deep mysterious well that is Advanced Squad Leader (ASL). I won't say that I was he...
My Final Salishan Gaming Event
I haven't written about my Salishan gaming retreats in a while (since 2011 I think) but having just held my final one I think I should wrap things up with a...
No Retreat! The North African Front - Operation Compass
One of the significant highlights of my post-employment life (there's a difference between "post-employment" and "retired"!) is the weekly gaming that I'm d...
Supreme Commander, Take 2
This is a follow-up to my Supreme Commander post from last week. Ken and I played through about 6 turns of the campaign game for The Supreme Commander last ...
Learning to be The Supreme Commander
I'm hosting a week-long war and board gaming blowout event at our beach house in just over a week. We are selling the house and this is our swan song event. ...
Cutting the Dish
We have a lot of change ahead of us in the coming 6 months, and being (ahem) unemployed one consideration is to minimize our fixed monthly expenses. High on ...
Update on my Wing-T Coach Activities
I've got a brief follow-up to my post last month on our next chapter. Earlier this month I published my first book on the Wing-T for youth football. If you a...
I Ran a Magic: the Gathering Cube Draft
I hosted a Magic cube draft tournament earlier this month and it was a blast. Here's what I did: Last summer I built what is called a cube -- a collection ...