Digital Impulses

Regular Saturday

Spent the morning at Robert's hockey game in Torrance.  I was there to take pictures of the game, but since I guess it misted a little overnight, the roof of the skating rink where they were going to play was leaking and causing the surface to be dangerously slippery.

As a result, the game was canceled and all of the time it took for them to get suited up and then warmed up was for naught.  The referees (city employees, naturally) simply felt that it wasn't safe to play and so they will have to play again at another date.

After the hockey, we all drove to a hole-in-the-wall diner in Redondo Beach called "Eat at Joe's" and had a really good breakfast there.  We then agreed to get together soon after Robert returns from his upcoming trip to Vegas.

I returned home from Breakfast to find that Reyna was once again in FULL DRAMA mode, this time regarding health issues her mom is facing in Colima.  I dealt with that as best I could and then spent the rest of the afternoon at home before going to Boston Market for dinner by myself.

Scrabble was late this evening, where I split a pair of games with Bert.

Hanging Out with Hoppenrath

Today being Bert's wife's birthday, we once again were unable to play Scrabble so I ended up hanging out with Robert, his cousin Mikey and a friend of his all night.

They picked me up around 1730 and we drove to Anaheim to a Hockey supply store for Robert to buy some stuff he needed for his hockey team and the game they are scheduled to play tomorrow morning.  After that we drove to a Red Robbins right next to Disneyland and had dinner there.]

The food was pretty good and the service was OK.

After dinner, we drove to a place called "Games Workshop" where they have a game called Warhammer 40,000, which is a fantasy role-playing dice-based game played with miniature action figures on a large table set up with land props.

The painstaking detail and colors of the tiny figures is incredible.  I have much to learn about the entire genre of miniature action figures RPG's but it seems like there is an entire game playing sub-culture around WarHammer.

I had never heard of such a thing.  That's rare because I spend inordinate amounts of time on the Internet reading and I consider myself to be supremely well-informed.  It just goes to show that you learn something new every day.  Cool!