Board Games...

... can take a long time to play! We played a game of Order of the Stick this afternoon, and the time flew by, at least for me. Ended up that we played the "short" version and got what was on the order of a 6-8 hour game. I think that may have been due to a bottleneck we created on the stairs to 3rd level, but still was a lot longer than the estimate in the manual. Very fun game though, I got to play Elan and ran around spawning lots of monsters for the rest of the group to kill, and very rarely got to actually kill one myself.

This was also a special day as it could have been in honor of many interesting things: (submitted by email)

- 100 days left in the current Calendar Year

- the 508th Anniversary of Switzerland becoming an independent state

- the 43rd Anniversary of "Fiddler on the Roof" opening on Broadway

- the 27th Anniversary of Iraq invading Iran

- the 20th Anniversary of the airing of the pilot episode of the television show "Full House"

- First saturday in 2007 after international talk like a pirate day
- First palindromic day after international talk like a pirate day
- Tommy Lasorda's 80th birthday
- The day hurricane Hugo hit Charlotte in 1989
- The day in 1915 that Siegfried Wagner got married to his wife Winifred (Wagner? Not sure... More backstory on this one in the email, but doesn't fit the one-line descriptions here.)

And... that's all. See you tomorrow. :)