Seeing Friends, Playing Games

Hawk and I have been keeping to ourselves a lot this year. That seems strange to say because we have done a lot of travel this year. (Since March, anyway. We stayed home in January-February because of the Omicron surge.) But most of that travel has been focused on outdoors activities and on being around other people as little as possible. One thing we haven't done much of this year— we restarted it slowly last year then ratcheted back again— is visiting friends indoors. Yesterday we joined some friends hosting a games day, for the first time in a long time.

To be clear, our attendance was the first time in a long time. The friends have been hosting periodically for months. This weekend was the first time in a while the stars lined up right for us to join. And it was awesome. Seeing people f2f, more than just 1-2 at a time, was awesome. Playing games, with more than just Hawk and me in a 2-player game, was awesome. We'll have to do it more often— both joining our friends' game days when schedules don't conflict, and getting back into the practice of inviting friends over to our place occasionally for games.

Game of Thrones S4 Wrap-up: Predictions

Having finished watching Game of Thrones season 4 recently I want to share my predictions about what will happen next in the story-world. I know I could simply turn to any number of sources to find out exactly what happens next; the books and the TV series were completed a few years ago. But I'm enjoying going through it one episode at a time, striving very much to avoid spoilers. While my predictions at this point may be somewhat laughable to the millions who already know the actual outcome, I will write them down here— for my own future amusement, if nothing else.

( Spoilers up through Season 4; Predictions beyond that )

Spoiler policy: No spoilers beyond Season 4, here or in the comments.