Munchkin!

Yesterday we got a new board game called Munckin and played it with the boys.  We started about 9 pm and didn’t actually finish the game (one game!) until about 1 AM!  We really are late night gamers now!  ;-D

Go down in the dungeon. Kill everything you meet. Backstab your friends and steal their stuff. Grab the treasure and run.

Here are the rules.  Basically, it’s a card game, with each card playing off of each other.  And it’s FUN!

3 to 6 players… I would say the more the merrier.  There are also several expansion packs (which we have a strong urge to buy ALL of) which will make the game more interesting… imagine combining the main decks (basic adventuring) with a super-spy theme or a Cthulu theme!

This morning when I woke up, the boys were quietly playing it on the living room floor. 

Meanwhile, here are some links I’ve collected recently…

• A floorplan of Sherlock Holmes’ house
• A picture of Nagasaki, before and after the bomb
• Table with built-in double-secret box
• 10 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

Some interesting words…

• cingulomania - n. a desire to hold another in one’s arms
• basorexia - n. a craving to kiss

Friday

Not much to report from yesterday. We ran some errands, ate out at El Burrito Loco. Dad read to the boys from a Conan the barbarian book, which was surprisingly well written. Then it was off to sleep.

Apparently we had an earthquake this morning at 4 am, but we didn’t notice. Although the boys did get up awfully early today. Who knew there were earthquakes in these parts?

On a different note, I began listening to one of those vocabulary learning audiobooks in the car called Verbal Advantage yesterday. I have a very short commute (poor me! not enough time for audio books!) so I haven’t heard a lot of it yet. The first 1/2 hour or more is just telling you how great it is to have a large vocabulary. Anyway, I will mention if I run across any interesting words.

The only one they reviewed so far that I wasn’t sure on the meaning was ostensible.

os·ten·si·ble

ɒˈstɛn sə bəl - adjective

1.	outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended: an ostensible cheerfulness concealing sadness.

2.	apparent, evident, or conspicuous: the ostensible truth of their theories.

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1762, from Fr. ostensible, from L. ostensus, pp. of ostendere “to show,” from ob “in front of” + tendere “to stretch”

Meanwhile, I ran across this post: For the Love of Words: Seven Wonderful Websites Where Words Matter, which has some interesting sites listed that are worth taking a look at later.