Writer, Dabbler In Things
Ingenious is a great game and can be played by kids and grown-ups alike. Players have a “hand” of six funky two-hex tiles (which look something like futuristic domino tiles) with varied combinations of six coloured symbols on them, that you lay onto the board so that those symbols connect with like symbols already in … Read more
I’m in a lottery pool with a couple of family members. Nothing much, just an arrangement where we each spend $5 a week on some flavour of lottery and we send the numbers to each other to be all above-board, and we roll small wins back into more tickets but we’ve agreed to evenly split … Read more
ProtonMail! After running a few tests with some family and friends in my search for some digital privacy, ProtonMail edged out the only real competition it had in Tutanota. Not by much, mind you. The feedback I got included that the interface seemed a bit more updated, but it wasn’t a huge difference. It was … Read more
Seven Dragons has been a staple among our games for several years now. It’s easy to learn and with it being just a deck of cards and being pretty quick to play, we often grab it when visiting family or friends to have on hand in case someone gets an itch to play something quick … Read more
We love board games in our household, and never have time to play them as much as we’d like to. Or rather, we hadn’t had time until a certain pandemic you may’ve heard of pushed everyone–at least, in countries whose governments grasped the science… *ahem*–isolating away from workplaces and schools and being indoors at home … Read more
I can’t tell you how often I come up with an idea for a visual gag and either take the time to cobble it together on the fly on my phone, or takes a little more time to make it look nicer on the Mac. This one was one of the latter type.
**HERE THERE BE WEE SPOILERS*** I’ve was finally getting around to reading Wanderers by Chuck Wendig, and was really enjoying it but then a couple of things happened. First, the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Not full-on at first for us here in North America, as we all know, but it was clearly spreading farther and farther … Read more
I’ve written about our Good Stuff Jar previously, wherein you write down good things that happen through the year and then jumble them up and read them out loud at the end of the year so you and your loved ones can enjoy the good times all over again. Well, as anyone can tell you, … Read more
The top of our front door has a window of combined frosted glass and triangular-cut glass pieces, the latter of which which make for unexpectedly nice prisms. When the sun is at the right point in the sky or reflecting off a car window, we sometimes get rainbows thrown onto our walls, but I think … Read more
We saw this example of “tagging”, as the kids call it, on the way to the park. It’s deeply disturbing that my daughter has to see stuff like this.