Hero Clix winner

Sunday

Elli and I were tired after our big hike on Angel Island so we lazed around until 11am, not really being in any hurry.

I made breakfast for us (eggs and sausage) and then we cleaned up and hustled to Gamescape so I could play in a Hero Clix tournament. Hero Clix is a comic book “action” game using a map and miniature figures to represent your super-hero team. Each figure has a point value and together the team needs to add to no more than 300 points. Today was a sealed tourney, meaning that you bought two sealed boxes of random figures (5 figures to a box), and had to make a team with “what you got”, so Spider-Man might end up being on a team with Doctor Doom. I’m a big theme team player; I like my team to be something that would have been in the comics, or reflect a certain team-up from a comic book that I liked. Most players are power players, putting anyone and everyone on a team, buying “super rare” figures off the internet for insane amounts of money (sometimes $125 or more) to get them the edge. I don’t like to play that way, mainly because it’s not very much fun, and I can think of better things to do with $125 dollars than spend it on a small piece of plastic).

Anyway, I was the new guy in town, and I didn’t make many friends today with my Doctor Doom and Arachne team-up. (It was what was in my box!). But I hope I did and that everyone had fun.

Doctor Doom

Arachne

I won all my games, and in my last game Doctor Doom rendered Hercules powerless. I had a great time, and enjoyed my beginners luck. I traded my winning prize battlefield condition card for Cloak and Dagger.

Cloak and Dagger

Afterwards, I met Elli at a coffee shop down the street where I ate a breakfast bagel (egg, turkey and jack cheese on an asiago bagel!), and drank a cup of coffee. We left there and walked to Chris Elbow and indulged in some chocolate, and came home for dinner.

A great Sunday after a great Saturday. I think I could get used to hanging out in coffee shops and playing games all day. If only I could make money from that…

Watched an episode of Flashpoint on www.cbs.com. This is my new favorite TV show, and since I don’t have a TV, I have to watch it online. It is about police officers in the Strategic Response Unit, and they are responsible for tactical emergencies such as hostage situations, with the goal of saving lives and diffusing the situation. Unfortunately, the first episodes is not online, even though the CBS masthead says it is. Settled for watching episode 6, I think. I don’t think there will be much confusion for watching them out of order. Anxiously awaiting time to watch the other episodes that are still online, where I can start with episode 2.

Flashpoint on http://www.cbs.com

Spent the remainder of the evening looking on the web trying to buy Hero Clix singles (the ones I want seem to be sold out most places) and reading with Elli before sleeping.

 

First day of Work

Monday

Woke up at 7am, showered and braved the BART for my first day of work. Ate breakfast at work (4 slices of coffee cake and 4 cups of coffee), which made it very difficult to sit through the teacher meetings that morning.

Sat through meetings all day (boring first day) and headed home on the BART around 3:40pm (6 minute ride) to see if Elli had managed to roll out of bed yet. She doesn’t start her job until the end of August, so she’s living the life she thinks I used to live. It’s true. I used to work part time as an art teacher and on my two days off I used to sleep until noon, play video games until right before she came home, and then turned on the computer and pulled up a spreadsheet or something technical looking and pretend this is what I worked on all day. At least that is what she somehow thinks. It’s not really true. I woke up much earlier so as to get maximum video game time in. Seriously, not really.

Went to Borders to read and relax for awhile.  Elli got hungry about an hour after arriving, so we came home for dinner.

Watched Hopkins while we ate dinner (squash soup and cheese bread).

Battled it out with a few rounds of Tetris, and Elli won again. Makes me miss my XBOX 360 and Halo 3. Can’t wait to bring it back with me next time I visit home.

Bed by 11am to repeat today.