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What I Did in 2008


I never seem to have as much time as I'd like to update this website. Part of the problem is that I spend too much time staring at the air; the other side of the problem is that I'm doing this stuff:

Games Played

No computer games (Civ2/3 & kids games) or design time counted.
Title# games# wins



Age of Mythology 1 0
Battleship 1 1
Beowulf 2 1
Bohnanza 4 1
Command & Colors Ancients: Akragas 2 1
Command & Colors Ancients: Clastidium 2 1
Entdecker 1 0
Guillotine 1 0
Lightning War: Midway 2 2
Lord of the Rings: Fog on the Barrow Downs1 0
Lord of the Rings: Weathertop 1 1
Mississippi Queen 1 1
Montgolfiere 7 2
Order of the Stick 1 0
Pirate's Dice 1 0
Race for the Galaxy 1 1
Return of the Heroes 4 0
Runebound 1 0
San Juan 7 1
Settlers of Catan 1 0
Settlers of Catan Card Game 2 1
Shear Panic 3 1
Ticket to Ride 1 0
Ticket to Ride: Europe 3 0
War (cards) 1 0

Models Built

Gondor: 6 Rangers
Harad: Mumak
Mordor: Shelob, 2 Mordor Trolls
Rohan: 2 Royal Guard (horse), 3 Royal Guard (foot)
The Shire: Frodo in Shelob's web

Books Read

The Proud Tower B. Tuchman
A History of Pi P. Beckmann
The Shakespeare Wars P. Beckmann
Pinocchio C. Collodi (aloud)
Going Postal T. Pratchett
A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida Shakespeare
Timon of Athens Shakespeare
The Cartoon History of the Modern World L. Gonick
Henry IV, Pt 1 Shakespeare (aloud, Nth time)
The Reginald Perrin Omnibus D Nobbs
A Very English Agent J Rathbone
The War of Invention G Hartcup (again)
Some Birds Don't Fly G Paulsen (again, after 20 years)
The Road to Middle Earth T Shippey (again)
JRR Tolkien: Author of the Century T Shippey (again)
The Great War R Cowley
The Order of the Stick: Start of Darkness R Burlew (nth)
The Order of the Stick: On the Origin of PCs R Burlew (nth)
The Order of the Stick: Dungeon Crawlin' Fools R Burlew (nth)
The Order of the Stick: No Cure for the Paladin Blues R Burlew (nth)
Ender's Game O S Card
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen II A Moore (etc)
Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships E Shanower
Age of Bronze: Sacrifice E Shanower
Age of Bronze: Betrayal E Shanower
The Old New Thing R Chen
The Norse Myths K Crossley-Holland
The Reavers G M Fraser
Writing Systems G Sampson (nth)
The Decipherment of Linear B J Chadwick
The Selfish Gene R Dawkins
Soon I Will Be Invincible A Grossman
The Red Queen M Ridley
Batman: Year One F Miller (etc)
Batman: The Long Halloween J Loeb (etc)
The Color of Magic T Pratchett
Watchmen A Moore (etc), again
The Kaiser's Army E D Brose
The Road to Verdun I Ousby
The Order of the Stick: On the Origin of PCs R Burlew (yep, again)
The Order of the Stick: War and XPs R Burlew
V For Vendetta A Moore (etc)
Shadow Games G Cook
Dreams of Steel G Cook
The Silver Spike G Cook
German Battlecruisers, 1914-1918 G Staff
British Battlecruisers, 1914-1918 L Burr
Spook M Roach
Tales of the Dying Earth J Vance
The Order of the Stick: War & XPs R Burlew
The Origins of World War I, 1871-1914 J Remak
The Blade Itself J Abercrombie
Before They Are Hanged J Abercrombie
The Last Argument of Kings J Abercrombie
Battle Tactics of the Western Front 1916-1918 P Griffith
Hostile Skies J Hudson
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones S Booth
Assassination Vacation S Vowell (2nd)
Codex L Grossman
Predictably Irrational B Ariely
How to Read Novels Like a Professor R Foster
How to Read Literature Like a Professor R Foster
The Anubis Gates T Powers (2nd)
The Story of French Nadeau & Barlow
Too Fat to Fish A Lange
The Knight G Wolfe
The Incomplete Enchanter Pratt & Sprague
German Air Forces 1914-1918 I Sumner
London 1914-1917: The Zeppelin Menace I Castle
The Iliad Homer
The Order of the Stick: War and XPs R Burlew (again)
Tom Strong, Volume 2 A Moore, etc.

Other Stuff

New Year's at the Kenten's. Kids bedtime 2:00, asleep around 3:00, parents around 3:15. Kids awoke around 9:00.
Wings for the Baron is finally done
EdCon XV with Michelle
Jeffrey's Intermediate Strings concert
Bought a new Toyota Camry hybrid
Jeffrey's county basketball team makes to the semi-finals
Vacation at Grandma's in Boulder City, trip to Grand Canyon
Jeffrey joins the Fairfax Stars AAU basketball team, Spring league champions
Jeffrey's 2nd Intermediate Strings concert
Piano recital, kids play a duet for the first time
Michelle's strings and band concert
Jeffrey in Summer League basketball
Jeffrey's Boy Scout 10 day canoeing trip to Canada (Northern Tier)
Great-grandaddy George dies
We celebrated Poppy's 70 birthday in New York City
Kids start 8th and 6th grades
Jeffrey joins (sort of) Fairfax Stars Fall basketball team
Jeffrey makes county basketball B team
Michelle joins Honor Band
Michelle and Jeffrey have school recitals on the same day
Shortest Christmases ever due to Jeffrey's basketball tournament

Dave Townsend / townsend@patriot.net

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