jazzfish | what a week

I have had an amazing weekend with Steph and a pretty good week at the Gathering. It's not really a surprise that I'm crashing hard as of a few hours ago, though. Lots of time away from home and kitten, lots of people-time. Now I just want to curl up and be taken care of for a bit. Or maybe just have someone I love nearby.

For all that it was a bit of a low-key-ish Gathering. One game of Sidereal Confluence, several 18xx games (including not one but TWO wins; I guess playing online once a week for a year and a half has upped my game significantly). I got to playtest the prototype for the new Race For The Galaxy expansion, and one for a sort of cooperative poker deduction game that an acquaintance from DC just sold to a publisher and is getting late-stage playtest data for. I waved at Steffan a couple of times but he looked busy and tired. I spent a lot of time hanging out with Eric B-- and with Jeroen, both of whom I am continually a bit surprised to find that I think of as "friends" and not just acquaintances.

Bag is 90% packed. Tomorrow morning I take a cab to the Toronto airport and fly to Vancouver, and go home and see my kitten and order groceries and fall over. Next week I can start figuring out what I'm doing next.