New games!

As the weather has been craptacular for the last week or so we decided to go for a drive to a games shop and check out some new board games. After looking around at quite a few shelves of fancy looking boxes (including one that looked so much like Monkey Island!) we walked out of the place with Munchkins Deluxe and 7 Wonders :) Tough games for our 4 year old to play but we will ease him into them and go from there.

So we had our first play through of each game tonight and it was tough (As we had no idea of the rules and the Munchkin manual isn't that new player friendly) so a few more games and we will hopefully have most of it sorted.

The end of the 7 Wonders game... we weren't sure how the points would work out at the end, but I won so it was great :D

On a side note we won at The Wizards tower yay!


Castle Panic 15 - 3 :)
Wizards Tower 2 -3 :(

The Wizards Tower

Keened eyed viewers will notice the addition of another score on the last post. (I know no one reads this, and it's not for anyone to read but I still like to post as though they do, is that weird?)

The Castle Panic board game has quickly removed the other family games from our life and relocated them to a dark spot in the granny flat.
So it only makes sense that we purchased the first expansion pack for it "The Wizards Tower"!

It uses the original board with most of the original pieces but adds bigger, badder monsters and the wizards tower itself. For as long as the wizards tower is still standing you get to use special "Wizards cards" which are more powerful than normal cards, but with the new boss monsters you're going to need them!

So far we have played 3 games with the new add on and lost every one of them! Not by much though, generally getting down to just one monster left that takes out the final tower so I'm sure we will have our breakthrough win soon :D

Castle Panic 13 - 3 :)
Wizards Tower 0 -3 :(

You do what?

So it's been almost a week since I last posted and it has been due to a few reasons.
It's school holidays, I've been busy working and also I am not that interesting :D

So I've been busy working, but doing what? Well I breed Giant Mealworms and supply them to shops and breeders for (mainly) the reptile industry.
It's weird I know, whenever anyone asks me how "the worms are going" I always feel like they are taking the piss. It's been almost a year now since I left my old job (underground cabling) and signed up as a small business. It's different, I get to take the kids to school and pick them up, as well as deal with stuff around the house.

Giant Mealworms are a pain in the ass (That's 2 swears in this post :O ) to breed, they just take a long time to grow. You're looking at 6 months from egg to adult so you have to make sure you have a system in place. So far so good though :)

I sell most of my stuff through Facebook....

 

 

Yep "I've Got Worms"... please hit me with your jokes, I have heard none of them before..... :D

Castle Panic 11 - 2 :)
Wizards Tower 0 -1 :(

Podcasts :D

In my old job I did quite a bit of driving. Sometimes I would leave early and drive 2 - 2.5 hours to a job and then have to drive the same back again in the after noon. The truck I was driving was noisy and the radio hardly worked so I started using earphones and my phone to listen to podcasts. Mainly tech stuff at the time but it soon became corrupted with nerdy stuff as well.

Now I work at home on my own and both of my kids are at school so my podcast list has grown and I end up listening to probably 6 or so hours a day! So what am I currently listening to? Well in no particular order....

The Incomparable :- Pop culture nerdy stuff :) Old movie reviews and more. The Incomparable network has quite a few different shows on it now, most of which I listen to.

The Skeptics Guide :- Interesting science news, the stupidity of the ignorant and a few fun games.

Nerdist :- I only listen to the main Nerdist podcast, they have some great famous guests on and end up talking about some unexpected topics with them.

Critical Hit :- A D&D podcast! How nerdy right?! Well it worked out well for me because it has a few hundred back episodes! I listen to it in the back ground, it's like a story unravelling and can be a laugh :)

The Infinite Monkey Cage :- Science panel show hosted by Brian Cox, funny and interesting.

SciFi Diner :- I've only just started listening to this one, so I'll see how it goes.

This Week In Tech :- Part of Leo Laportes empire of Tech shows :) A weekly roundup of everything tech related.

There are others, they come and go as I feel. The other day I realised that the adverts seem to be working as well... I have several products that I have purchased because I have heard about them on podcasts (iFixIt Pro tool set, Castle Panic, Loot Crate....) Luckily I'm happy with them so I can't complain!

Castle Panic score  7 - 2

Little lizard homes

I mentioned somewhere on here that I was interested in reptiles, and on Friday I made my latest (last?) purchase! A trio of 3 week old Pilbara Ridge tailed monitors :D

 Yes I know there are only 2 in the photo but they are small and fast and didn't want to sit together!
I'll sex them at some stage and see what I ended up with. Anyway getting these has filled my rack :)

All up its 2.4m wide, 2.2m high and .6m deep. It's almost all monitors! 3 small Mt Isa Ridge Tails, 3 Pilbara Ridge tails, an adult male and sub adult female ridge tail, 3 Pygmy Mulga monitors and one Central Beardie. I've sexed all of those except the Pygmys who are too hard to tell right now and the new 3 that I don't want to fiddle with until they are settled in :) It's a good job I breed a lot of my own reptile food as when they are all adults they will plow through a bit I think.

Well that's my Easter present sorted :D:D:D:D