Week 2: January 12 - January 19, 2014
Games: I plan on playing Skylanders Swap Force for quite awhile, and we got some new swap-force characters to unlock more of the challenges. S1 and I played a new Magic Duel Deck: Heroes vs. Monsters on Saturday. I enjoy playing the duel decks with DW, since the decks are preconstructed and ideally are balanced for play against each other. These decks are a lot less complicated than decks which I design, which helps her a lot in playing them. I usually can't get S1 to play Magic with me, as he would rather look at the cards than play them. However, he volunteered that he would like to play, so we did. He beat me with the Heroes deck by pumping a Sun Titan to 8/8 and giving it flying. Even more surprising to me, S1 wanted to play Munchkin with me today. We've played it before at Rob and Julianna's, and DW has played Munchkin Cthulhu with me back in Alabama (I regret now giving it away, but it didn't play well with just 2). DW, S1, D1, and I played Munchkin, the Deluxe version which has a board to show progression in levels - this makes the game a lot easier to play and visualize the game state. It went on a little long, and there was some reticence to backstab and screw your neighbor. I'm just impressed that S1 wanted to play (he also won).
DVDs: still watching WWI documentary The War to End all Wars. Saw the episode on the development of the air force in WWI; takeaway is you don't want to be in an airplane when fighting a technologically equivalent society.