It was a cold, wet day today. It’s astonishing how just a week or two ago it was still hot like the end of summer, and now the weather has turned downright chilly. I managed to find a window around 9am to go for a short run, 2.5k. I want to ease back into it a little since my back is still a tiny bit tender after pulling it a week ago. I might try for 5k tomorrow, but we’ll see.
My wife and I played a game of Root this afternoon, this time using all four factions for the first time, with robot versions of the Marquisate and the Eyrie, while she played the Alliance and I played the Vagabond. I’d been introducing new elements of the game to her slowly so she can get used to them, and this is the first time we included the Vagabond. The robot factions did pretty well and controlled a lot of the board until late in the game, but we both overtook them and my wife managed to race to victory.
I also spent some time building the next stage of the D&D Lego set. First, here’s a photo of the enormous box!
Inside are a couple of dozen numbered bags full of pieces, which are constructed in order. Here’s the first stage of construction, a tavern, showing the outside with a dwarven adventurer:
Stage 2 added more to the upper parts of the walls, the tavern sign, and a wizard character:
Today I completed stage 3, which is the upper floor of the tavern, where there’s a comfy looking bed:
But oh no! It’s a mimic!!!
I’ll try to do stage 4 tomorrow.
Tonight for dinner I made pizza – our usual with pumpkin and walnuts and chilli. We had some left over sour cream from Mexican meals in the past week, so I added some of that and a bit more chilli oil onto the cut slices after it was cooked. Very nice!
New content today:
Are the Fantasy gang going to run into Ardaxar’s long-lost cooler-looking cousin in a castle directly over a tavern?
Oh… quite possibly…