Interesting sunday talk...

Remember the conference talk from Dallin H. Oaks on "Good, better, best"?

Well, we heard a new one today on that line from a high councilor, that his kids or grandkids have a new scale to measure things: Good, Better, Best, Awesome, and Epic!

Yeah, I think I know where that came from.  (I think I like it too!)

Kind of reminds me that if I'm not doing awesomely epic things, then I may just be wasting time.  Something to ponder.

Star Wars X-wing event @ Gameopolis

So a good friend of ours - Marc - invited us over to play a session of a tabletop strategy game that Russ started collecting, after he had seen it demonstrated at ICON over a year ago.  Russ, of course, dressed the part of the X-wing pilot.  Along with 4 other gamesters, we played a 50 point 4-on-3 team skirmish, it was the Rebels vs the Empire.  Luke Skywalker and an unnamed A-wing pilot got destroyed almost immediately by Darth Vader and his two TIE-wing cohort escorts.  Mark and Russ came back as a Y-wing hotshot and a rookie A-wing pilot to defend their B-wing compatriot.  Unfortunately, the Imperials won in the end, but not before Russ avenged Luke with his Ion cannon on Darth Vader.

Maybe next time we play, Russ will wear his TIE-fighter shadowtrooper suit!

Plus a Star Wars joke:
Did ya hear?  After Padme's death, Lord Vader remarried a girl named Ellie.  But that relationship was a real up-and-down one.
     - not mine but I wish I had come up with it

Hoppy Eastah...

Hooooooohh... purrrrrrrr...

Yup... those are Carrot cake M&M's!

Post-game-day brain mush

After 48 hours of almost non-stop gaming, the mental faculties get to a point where the mind has taken the place of a bowl of oatmeal.  Or perhaps in this instance, re-constituted potato-pearls.

To her credit, Sarah did make up a song on the second day of Icon.

(To the tune of "Let's go fly a kite!" made popular in Mary Poppins and Saving Mr. Banks.)

Let's go play a game
one that won't tax my brain.
Let's go play a game
that's not so boring -
One that is lots of fun
enjoyed by everyone.
Oh let's go play a game!

It's that time of year again...

Everybody polish your dice now!
Everybody game!  Ahhhhh...

We've been waiting so long
Just can't hold it back no more
Tumbling our dice now
It's time for me to let them roll!
If you really wanna see
What we can roll for you now
Roll those 20's and those 6's
Crit hit! Ahhh!

Game on, cause we got tickets!
Come on, now everybody
We're going to ICON, oh yeah!

Game on, cause we got tickets!
Come on, now everybody
We're going to ICON, oh yeah!

We're going to ICON, again!

We're going to ICON, again!

Well I gotta play in that tourney

Gotta play that new released game

Gotta teach someone how to play this
And play in the midnight Werewolf game
Almost done with all my achievements
Then I'm in for that new game drawing
What I wanna do is play this card game
or maybe barter for that new huge board game, oh!

If you really wanna see
What we can roll for you now
Roll those 20's and those 6's
Crit hit! Ahhh!

Game on, cause we got tickets!
Come on, now everybody
We're going to ICON, oh yeah!

Game on, cause we got tickets!

Come on, now everybody

We're going to ICON, oh yeah!

We're going to ICON, again!

We're going to ICON, again!

We've been waiting so long
Just can't hold it back no more (Just can't hold them back no more!)
Tumbling our dice now
It's time for me to let them roll!

It's time for me to let them roll!

Everybody tumble your dice now!
Everybody game!

Everybody tumble your dice now!
Everybody game!

Everybody... Game on, cause we got tickets!
tumble your dice now! Come on, now everybody
Everybody game! We're going to ICON, oh yeah!

Everybody... Game on, cause we got tickets!

tumble your dice now! Come on, now everybody
Everybody game! We're going to ICON, oh yeah!

We're going to ICON!