Mac and Pam came over for dinner tonight for the first time in months. Kris says that I prepared too much food (chowder, salmon, pasta), that I have a tendency to make too much food whenever I'm in charge of dinner. Hmm. I hadn't noticed, but maybe she's right.

After dinner I won a game of tri-ominoes. Woot! I had fun — it seemed like old times.

With soccer starting again, Mac and Pam and Joel and I will be seeing a lot of each other over the next few months. Perhaps we can squeeze in some after-practice ping-pong tournaments, too, though I expect that I'll finish at the bottom of the standings every week. And never have any RAMFPs or slams. I'll have fun regardless.

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I picked up a used copy of Star Fleet Battles (and the first two expansions) for ten bucks yesterday. Star Fleet Battles is a tactical space combat simulation set in the Star Trek universe. Dave had a copy of this when we were kids, and I can remember playing it with him a couple of times in junior high. The rules are needlessly complex, and it can take what seems like decades to complete a single battle. Who cares? It's still fun in a geeky way.

Today I received my eBay-purchased copy of Wooden Ships and Iron Men in the mail. The rules for Wooden Ships and Iron Men are less complex than the rules for Star Fleet Battles, and I have high hopes that Mac and Joel and I can engage in some naval combat after soccer practice this Sunday (before ping-pong). In some ways, Star Fleet Battles is just Wooden Ships and Iron Men in space.

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I'm on a sort of Asian media kick lately. I just watched Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke, and want to watch his Oscar-winning Sprited Away again; it's a film that's really stuck with me.

I recently reread Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea. I'm reading Kazu Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day (a fantastic book), and plan to read the rest of his oeuvre soon. Also in my reading queue is The Stones Cry Out by Kikaru Okuizumi.

I've also begun reading the comic book adaptation of the novels upon which the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is based. (That sounds much more complex than it actually is.) In fact, I'm going to post a summary of the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon backstory here soon (tomorrow?). This information just isn't available elsewhere in English, and it's a shame. The story is fantastic, and knowing the background makes the film even better.

On this day at foldedspace.org

2004 — Grasshopper   Come with me, back twenty years, to those days of high school romance...

2002 — Opening Day   Today is Opening Day for Major League Baseball. I should be excited, but I'm too tired and lethargic to muster enthusiasm.

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