Yup. A client of ours has flown Mufasa and myself to Hamilton in the Waikato. For you overseas ppl, Hamilton is a 1.5 hour drive south of Auckland. We’re in a building that I think is right next to the Waikato River. Well, I think it’s the Waikato… there’s no signs and I don’t have enough guts to ask anyone just yet. Mind you, the coffee was good… better than the swill on the Air New Zealand flight in. Plans are to go see Hillary, my friend in Auckland tonight, maybe even crash out at her place. We’ll see. Better dash, pizza is here!
Category Archives: Friends
Ghost World
It’s friday night, and I’ve just been to see Ghost World. Here’s the obligitory link to the movie on the IMDB. It’s a really quite weird movie. After High school, Enid (Thora Birch), a freak-and-geek goes on a journey after meeting Seymour (Steve Buscemi), a rejected old-music collecter guy in his middle ages. The movie seems to go nowhere, but the journey is one to be remembered. For the weirdness factor of this movie, and thought provoking events that happen during it, I give this movie ggggg out of ggggg, and put it in my top 10 list, but you might hate it. For a treat, wait till the end of the credits if you do watch it.
Vegas Coke Glass
Mufasa and MonkeyJay brought me a Coca-Cola Las Vegas glass. It’s weird, because it’s chrome at the top, and fades out down the glass to total transparent about 2/3s the way to the bottom. Couldn’t find a pic quickly. The glass is weird… but very very awesome. Cheers guys 🙂
Risky Business
Broke in my Risk board with two games of Secret Mission Risk in the weekend. If you’ve never played Secret Mission before, you are missing out on playing risk more often.
First game was 5 players, SmileyChris, Jeremie, Bert, Joel(?), and myself. Joel won with the mission to Destroy Green… which was me. Damnit. My mission was Destroy Red (Bert), but I spread myself too thin. I need practice 🙂
Second game was the next night, Smiley, Jeremie, Gareth, Paul and myself. Gareth is a seasoned risk player, and completed his Destroy Blue mission, with SmileyChris manning the blue pieces. My mission was Take Asia and Africa. I started with three of the four countries in Australasia, and went on to hold most of asia for the rest of the game, not actually holding the continent at any point though. Also, I have never seen a Secret Mission game with more than 1 cannon on a country. I think on Gareth’s winning turn he cashed in his risk cards for a whopping 55+3 units. I had 4 cannons on one of my countries, Jeremie had maybe 5 or 6 in western europe, and Gareth had a huge army in the middle east, which was preventing me trying to take Africa. But I’m happy I held most of Asia for so long.
If you’re in Wellington sometime, give me an IM or something and we’ll organise a game sometime… 😀
Cathedral
On Sunday after church we got to go to someone’s place for a young adults lunch (thanks The Wilsons, I think). There were probably about 20 young adults there. Smileychris and I were both there just talking and I leaned back to put my drink down on a shelf behind me and there it was – a Cathedral board. I’d seen and read about this game at stores like Mindscapes, and some touristy stores, and was intrigued by it. For some reason Mr Wilson came over and taught Chris, myself, and a friend of mine called Green (most ppl call him Jay, but he’s not the Jay you people know as MonkeyJay) how to play. A fascinating game it is…
