Happy Canada Day [0] to my fellow Canucks. I've been enjoying the
summer weather here and trying to spend more time outdoors while I
can - mostly walking and riding my bike. We're lucky enough to be
within walking distance of downtown, round-trip is about 4km and
it's mainly sidewalk, which is convenient.
I'll be on vacation in a few weeks and my wife and I are planning a
trip to New Brunswick. We've never been to the Atlantic coast of
Canada, so I'm excited to make that happen finally. St. John's is
about a 10-hour drive for us, so we'll break it up with some camping
along the way and get a nice week off together.
I'm also playing more role-playing games. I am in two games per
week, one face-to-face 5th edition D&D and one with a long-running
group of old-school gamers. We are geographically dispersed, so we
play online via video chat (on Roll20). The games we play are quite
diverse - crossing lots of genres, although we mostly enjoy older
games or modern clones of the older games. We all take turns
running games, which is what I enjoy the most. Being creative in
that way is a nice change from the default consumer state nowadays.
My son is in the 5e D&D group, but likes to play Magic (the card
game) as well, so I've been playing that with him. We're both
beginners, but one of the guys in the D&D group is an experienced
player, so we play with him when we get a chance. It's more complex
than I imagined, just due to the sheer variety of cards available,
and there's quite a lot of strategy involved.
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