Packing my games...

As I mentioned earlier, I am moving in a couple of weeks. Since my
primary game partner is my darling wife and she is already in Iowa,
I'm going through a bit of a game drought these days. Since I know I
won't be playing much until after the move, I packed up the game
collection the other night. It was sad.

Games are an important part of my life. So often I spend my social
time with my friends playing these very games, it occurred to me that
most likely I won't play these games with a lot of these people again.
Although I've only spent a couple of years in Minnesota, the
relationships I've built are invaluable. While not all of them
revolve around games, several of them do. That makes this move, as my
pastor said, bittersweet.

I am returning to a large group of friends who want to play games with
me. In fact a buddy of mine practically begged me to play a game of
cards with him when I get back. So while I close out this chapter of
my life, I'm excited to open another. And like most of the recent
chapters of my life, games will play a big part of it.

Top Games of 2005 (So Far)

Okay, so I thought I'd give you a brief run down of my favorite new
games of the year so far. Look for my top ten soon! In no particular
order:

Ingenious

Poker's Wild

Shadows Over Camelot

Make 'n Break

Get Hooked

Ticket to Ride Europe

Around the World in 80 Days

Carcassonne: the City

DaVinci's Challenge

Gloom

Candamir: the First Settlers

Louis XIV

Villa Paletti

Remember, as I work in retail, my top games go from Thanksgiving of
the previous year to Thanksgiving of the current year.

Moving...

To those who read my blog,

I am moving back to the great state of Iowa over the next month. And
since my main gaming partner is back already, I won't have a lot of
content for the next month. Hang in there. I won't forget it like I
did in June and July!

Thomas