Returning to something I used to do in the late 80s: cross stitch 🪡

Latest thing.

After seeing a bunch of relatives posting pro-Trump stuff recently, still defending him after all that has transpired, I can't help but sum up: I never imagined idolatry would be so insufferably whiny.

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Printed out an insert for Keyflower and its expansions.

Plays of Cryptid, Fit to Print, and Winter Rabbit in the last couple of weeks. #bgg

“A-plus plus plus plus plus.” 🤡

“A-plus plus plus plus.” @amysiskind.com @cbsnews.com

Didn't think Mick Foley would be showing up on my late 2025 bingo card. Good on him 👏

Little Free Library decorated for the Christmas season! 🎄 📚 Holiday clickies from Marie’s Buttons on Thangs. #littlefreelibrary

📚 Sold $205 worth of books at @halfpricebooks , bought these with some of the proceeds, and deposited the rest in the bank 🏦 😂

Not too often you see Hollandspiele games out in the wild. (At Half Price Books.)

Exactly 80 years ago tomorrow (Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth should be very worried. www.executedtoday.com/2009/11/30/1...

On to vol. 2, 70pp in.

I wrote a character in a book once who was *less* racist and evil than Stephen Miller and my editor told me I was just being excessive and needed to cut a bunch of stuff.

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍽

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

Cryptid, two back-to-back games. So good! I was very lost in the first game but finally started to come together in the second. Such a clever deduction game! #bgg

Finished Rome & Roll solo. Beat Seneca 67 to 51. My final map doesn’t look super triumphant, but the game itself is super fun. Not as heavy as I was expecting. Feels lighter than Hadrian’s Wall maybe.

Gross. 🤮 www.axios.com/local/washin...

Learning Rome & Roll solo

📚 New addition to Little Free Library: 🦉 #3Dprinting #littlefreelibrary Design: Krakdrag on cults3d.com

Galaxy Trucker last night with the kiddos Weee their spaceships lost pieces 😂 🚀 👽 ☄️

Added Halloween clickies to the Little Free Library! 📚 👻 💀 (And a sign.) Clicky designs are from Marie’s Button. #3dprinting #littlefreelibrary

Just finished The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism, by Holly Berkley Fletcher. HIGHLY recommended. It nails the through line of the (white) American self-righteousness that pervades much of missionary work abroad. A difficult read (at times) that isn’t without hope.

Happy Vasily Arkhipov Day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_...

Read Cryptonomicon 25 years ago in college, read Snow Crash in the last year, finished Diamond Age an hour ago, and now on to start the Baroque Cycle with Quicksilver.

One of my happy places: printing out board game inserts. Played Yokohama Duel last week with 10yo son and thought once it was done, “this needs an insert!” Found it on Thingiverse right away. Filament is Perfect Blue from Atomic.

Starting a game of Yokohama Duel! #bgg

Printed a Quantum Pumpkin! 🎃 🫨

Mood

Another night of Marshmallow Test with the kiddos. This time 10yo son wins with 23 (!) to 12yo sister’s 19 to my 12.

Marshmallow Test with the kiddos. Super simple trick-taking game about timing. I won 😆 #badTeacher

Our Little Free Library is ready for the spooky Halloween season with more 3D prints. 💀 🎃 👻 #3dprinting #littlefreelibrary

Printing out an Age of Steam Deluxe insert and started with the acrylic tray section. Source: makerworld.com/en/models/85...

Very excited about today’s arrival of Cross Bronx Expressway by @nbsp1618.bsky.social ! Also highly recommend Non-Breaking Space’s Endnotes podcast covering the history and development of the game 🎧

Yes, I printed an articulated cane toad 🐸

Such an enthralling look into this imminent game by NBSP!

Excited for these new arrivals from Newmill! @dnlnwmn.bsky.social

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This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

Here be dragons! 🐉 The Voron was very busy this week as this week saw three printed for family and friends. #3dprinting #vorondesign #voron

Kiwi recommends little free libraries!

Played a solo game of Nucleum today. Managed a win at 166 to 129 although I’m not sure I played everything correctly. 😂 Very thinky game! I’ll have to see am if there is an app for the bot next time. #bgg

Newest 3D prints: These mushroom shelves! Used rainbow ABS. Attached to the side of a bookshelf. #3Dprinting

First play of Barrage. Amazing, but brutal. Right up my alley of brain melt. 🧠 🫠 ❤️ #bgg

Learning Nucleum today because it was too hot to be outside. Almost through the rulebook and I can already see that there are a lot of tricky decisions to make in this one. #bgg