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Rajas of the Ganges July 18, 2023 A worker placement game where you also use dice as resources. Play centers around a main board but each player also builded a little village with Carcassonne-esque tiles. I enjoyed it and would play again.

One Billion Years to the End of the World - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky February 28, 2023 A bizarre and surreal novel about a mathematician on the verge of a break through who keeps getting interrupted. Very much a Strugatsky book, I enjoyed reading it but its hard to decide if anything real actually happens in it!

Where there is a will, there is a way. April 30, 2023 With my Shelley Energy Monitor showing me what I was generating and what was going to grid, I needed a better way yo visualize it. Google Sheets has a great feature called App Script that allows you to write small progams that will run regularly. After getting back into the coding I was able to whip up a small script to pull the data directly from the device using Shelley's cloud api, and with the data on in one sheet it was easy to create a nice graph. Now I can see in one glance what my energy usage is like and start build a full years worth of data.

ChatGPT & Boardgame Clubs May 22, 2023 What ChatGPT thinks makes successful clubs read more