Angie was down home visiting her family this weekend, so I did something that I haven't done in maybe five years: I got together with some friends and played a boardgame all night long.
In this case, the new version of Axis and Allies. I really liked everyone playing, and the game was very exciting and close.
So, rolling home at 6 am (7 am, I guess, because of daylight savings time) a few things came to me. First, Axis and Allies really is a gem of a game, especially after the update a couple of years back. Even after the update, though, the allies have to be very unlucky to lose with any regularity.
Second, the whole experience felt like some forbidden trip to the seedy side of town. Used to be that all night sessions were pretty much par for the course for me, but I'm getting way to old to stay up all night eating junk food and playing board games. It's not the geeky gaming per se; I do that on a pretty regular basis with a D&D group, and I love it. It was the all night getting so tired at 5 am that you can't remember how many armies are on the board moments that I don't really miss. Or the detachment from everything else because you sleep until 2 pm the next day.
Was a time when that was how I did things almost every weekend, but I guess I'm cashing out, boys.
I was really happy to see Angie return.
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