Just marking the day.

[sarren]

I have spent my entire adult life avoiding gaming.

Today, Dragonfly and Bunny taught me to play Settlers.

Then we went to the Swancon bbq fundraiser, and hadn't been seated for more than ten minutes when _bigjobbies_ descended on us with a block game (like Tetris except with actual blocks and three dimensional).

The bbq was lovely, the weather was perfect and the people were, as always, awesome. I even remembered to invite my best mate and her family along.

I've buggered up my knee again chasing small children around. I'm really going to not do exercisey type stuff that puts any kind of stress on it. So, does anybody actually, seriously, swim for exercise? I really want to know how you manage to not give up out of the boredome of it.

Most significantly - I appear to have made all sorts of rash promises about attending gaming events and inviting people over to my house to play.

Comments

[psycho-tabby.livejournal.com]

Did you enjoy them? Did Bunny like the inca block game? Is Dragonfly enjoying her settlers set?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bigjobbies_/]

It was actually a different block game - Rumis - but Bunny enjoyed it

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes and yes.

I hear you're never ever free again except on Fridays but not this Friday.

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

I've also only recently discovered the pleasure of playing games.

The 2 I've learned are Vikings and Ticket to Ride: Europe. Both fun, and not too hard, both taught by lovely patient people :) I would love to play games with you - also I went to Eurogamesfest on the weekend and had a fabulous time!

Will definitely be going back :) Am willing to accompany you if you like?

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Next month?

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

Sounds good ^_^ I'm not sure which Saturday it's on, but I think it might be the second last Saturday of the month. I'll find out :)

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Cool. As long as people remind me about 43 times, I'll be there!

[montanaharper]

I actually adore swimming for exercise. I don't find it boring at all; I tend to plot and/or write stories in my head while doing laps.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Hee! That sounds like a plan, I'll give it a go.

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

I used to swim for exercise. It was a great of settling the brain into creative stuff and/or studying. Swimming helped me work problems out and draw related bits of information together. I prepared half my essays in the pool. Maybe that's why I'm not as clever now. Cycling almost has a similar effect, but you have to spend too much time avoiding things to really get that mindspace.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

You think???

I can't hold that much info in my brain to write an essay. Maybe I can try plotting fic instead :)

[kremmen.livejournal.com]

I don't understand how people walk/jog/run for exercise. It's mind-bogglingly boring to me, as well as hot and sweaty. Swimming is comfortable and swimming in the ocean is endlessly non-boring, with all the lovely waves.

[victorian-tweed.livejournal.com]

I have spent my entire adult life avoiding gaming.

ME TOO. I just know I would get even less done in the Real Life than I do already if I got into it.

I'm sorry to read about your poor knee. *kisses it better*

Could yoga be an alternative exercise path, if you are not keen on swimming?

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Yoga's not going to shift all this weight I've put on since I switched to a sedentry job, though I am going to take it up again to get rid of my neck/shoulder tension.

[artisanat.livejournal.com]

I used to swim for exercise but it started to bother one of my shoulders (life is perverse). I guess it was sort of boring but I discovered that one sometimes sees amazing things at swimming pools. I discovered that Kim Beasley sometimes went to the Sommerset Pool (Vik Park) in those days. He was one of the few swimmers who were slower than me and he didn't much like the denizens of the change room talking politics at him. I was waiting for him to become prime minister so I could brag properly about having seen him naked, but it wasn't to be.

You're welcome to drop around to our place on Tuesday evenings for a spot of Settlers now that you're an addict.

How do buggered knees go with the idea of going to the zoo? There are probably wheely things there for pushing people around.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I can't walk - I'm just making a big deal of it now because I've finally come to terms with the fact that this is damage I've had for 15 years and it's getting worse as I get older and I can't do exercisy things that'd I'd normally do.

Swimming ftw!

Zoo good, will talk to Dfly about when Bunny's home, as I am currently confused due to last weekend's switch so we could go to the bbq.

[artisanat.livejournal.com]

Good oh, let us know what you find out.