Quite a bit to say this month!
Weight
Target weight loss: 210lbs. Current weight: 234lbs. Weight
lost this month: 1lb.
Well, progress is progress, and taken as a whole, the month
has been somewhat productive in losing weight. But it did come with a lapse and
a slight gain at one point. I guess, if I keep going like this, I’ll get to
where I need to be eventually – but if I’m going to lose another 24lbs by the
end of the year, I’ll need to work harder on managing my diet. I’ve exercised for
at least an hour and a half every day since early March – this tends to be
quite light, usually walking, but it is improving my fitness and can’t be
detrimental to weight loss, I guess!
Board Games
This month: 22. Total so far: 42
There was a whole load of games this month, and many of them
were at the UK Games Expo in the last couple of days in May, so the
descriptions of the games will be shorter than usual:
·
Catan – played in a Tournament at the Expo.
·
Flip 7 – Nice push-your-luck game that I think
will go well with the usual crowd!
·
The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship –
Lord of the Rings meets Pandemic.
·
Azul – I’d been getting the rules wrong all
along.
·
Space Base – A somewhat heavy game about
building the most efficient space port.
·
Sausage Sizzle – Nice little dice-roller, based
on an Australian BBQ.
·
Bomb Busters – Cute Animals Disarming Bombs.
·
Heat: Pedal to the Metal – Good translation of
cars into a card game with a slight deck-building element.
·
Ecosystem – Lovely little drafting game about
building a home for animals.
·
Quoridor – I liked the original better than the
Pacman version.
·
Quantik – A competitive abstract puzzler.
·
Pengoloo – A cute game about penguins and eggs.
·
Minecraft Labyrinth – functionally almost identical
to Labyrinth but for the inclusion of the pickaxe.
·
Echidna Shuffle – Another game with cute animals,
the titular echidnas giving bugs a lift home, but with an impressive dice balancing
mechanic that makes a good difference.
·
Donkey Kong: Jungle Speed – Another variation on
Snap with the DK theme.
·
The Fix for 626 – Lilo and Stitch meets Love
Letter.
·
Chronicles of Light: Darkness Falls: Disney
Edition – Similar crisis management to Pandemic.
·
Six Second Scribbles: Absolutely hysterical
drawing game.
·
Camel Up: Betting on racing camels, which
apparently happens in Dubai.
·
Dixit: Finally played my copy! The art style was
very well received, and we love the game.
·
The Chameleon: The bare bones of hidden identity
games, but easy to explain!
·
Dobble: Disney Princess edition: Snap turned up
to 11. Always good fun to play.
Which brings my quest to play 40 board games this year to
its conclusion! To be fair, I was always going to make this one – but even so,
I’m amazed I managed it so quickly!
Gigs
This month: 1. Total so far: 9
Just the assisted living centre this month. I also helped to
run a concert for Wombourne School of Music, but as I didn’t perform there – I didn’t
want to make it more about me than the students – I’m not going to count it. Next
month, there’ll be more to say…
Video Games
This month: 2. Total so far: 10
I’ve been playing Spiderman: Miles Morales on the PS5 this month
and reached the end of it a few weeks ago. It’s a good game, in many ways
better than the PS4 Spiderman game but it didn’t grab me in quite the same way.
Still, I enjoyed it, and it was nice to beat a heavier game!
I also beat Super Mario Bros on the Switch – the version
that was packed in with Super Mario All Stars. I was surprised at how different
this version of the game feels: the controls are “floatier” than the NES
original. I reached the end of it this morning, with a little help from the
re-wind function built into the Switch – it’s not cheating if it’s in the structure
of the game, right? To be honest, I didn’t want to get bogged down.
Models Painted
This month: 12. Total so far: 38
