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These are two of the only words in the SOWPODS tournament word game dictionary that contain my initials, RWHE, in sequence. (See also logo top right.) The four other stems include everwhere, otherwhere, underwhelm, and waterwheel. Are everwhere and otherwhere even words?
However, expect to find more than wordplay within. As goes the motto of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, a company that bears a greater than accidental resemblance to many places I've worked, Share and Enjoy!
Here are some overwhelming (in a good way) gearwheels to start things off. If you don't know what that photo is all about, consult Wikipedia.
I awoke out of a dream the other night and couldn't fall back to sleep until I jotted down an idea for my work in progress, Parallel Pastimes, an idea that in my dream was being propagated by the half-Deep One protagonist of the revisionist Lovecraftian novel, Winter Tide (for some reason). In the morning, I saw it was this:
Massively multiplayer jigsaw puzzles.
I already have more game ideas than I can finish writing, so this will probably be a throwaway bit of design fiction, just a line or two. Kind of a relief. Don't need to go on another hypomanic bender developing this one.
January 1 is almost over and I haven't played even one game of my 2019 10x10 challenge. I'm (a) behind in a big way....
I'm thinking of starting a new game group called The Other Other Operation. If you live in the Seattle area, let me know if you're interested in playing some of these games or similar.
To expand on my last post, the 2019 10x10 challenge is my attempt to participate in the year-long BoardGameGeek metagame of playing 10 different tabletop game 10 times each. For those allergic to links, here are my proposed 10 games this year, plus one alternate (#11).
If you don't know what these games are, do see my BoardGameGeek post. These are not the only games I'm interested in playing this year! I've obtained three more just since Christmas, and I'm not waiting until 2020 to play them. But if you and I sit down at a table together soon and you suggest one of the games above, I'm unlikely to refuse.
If you do recognize and enjoy them, consider joining my new game group, The Other Other Operation. We will gather periodically at impromptu meetings codenamed variously Operation Cosmic, Operation Ultima, Operation 504, etc. around the Seattle area. We'll hang out and play the kinds of gem that get so little love at other game groups, such as my first game group, Seattle Cosmic Game Night (The Operation), whose namesake game Cosmic Encounter has fallen out of favor there, and EGGS (The Other Operation), an excellent design and playtest group I belonged to that nevertheless collapsed under the aching mass of its own bureaucracy.
It break my heart not to be able to play Cosmic Encounter (and friends) at Seattle Cosmic, and playtest at EGGS, and these are the inspiration for The Other Other Operation. To quote Mephistopheles in Marlowe's Dr. Faustus,
Faust. How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
Meph. Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think’st thou that I who saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
In being depriv’d of everlasting bliss?
Playing Cosmic (and abstract gems from off the europath, and more) every week at game night was a wonder of the gaming world (for me), but now that I'm a semi-unwilling exile from that world of bliss, I figure I'll run and blog some impromptu game nights in the outer darkness. If you're willing to come, you can be part. Why this is The Other Other Operation, nor am I out of it. You might even make some friends you can play with outside of Hell...
Right now The Other Other Operation has three members: me, and my friends Karl and Natalie. We're growing by limps and bounds. If you're interested in joining, leave a cryptically worded message of interest in the comments, unless you're a giant hedgehog.
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