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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.
Today's lengthy post deleted in the name of marital harmony. Perhaps some of it will return later in another form.
And we're back.
As mentioned, this year I'm participating in the BoardGameGeek metagame of playing 10 different tabletop games 10 times each, known as the 2019 10x10 challenge. For those allergic to hyperlinks, 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, of course -- 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.
Alas, as much as I want to play these games (as soon as possible, 10 times each or more), to put it as diplomatically as I can, my regular game group Seattle Cosmic Game Night can't meet most of my needs as a gamer anymore. Thus, I'm starting another game group whose working title is The Operation (pythonically a.k.a. The Other Other Operation). We'll hang out periodically at impromptu meetings around the Seattle area and online, codenamed variously Operation Ultima, Operation 504, etc., playing and playtesting weird new games, abstract games, and game systems -- and, of course, conquering the Cosmos from time to time. Won't you come? You might even spin off yet another group with the people you meet.
Right now The Operation has only three members: me, and my friends Karl and Natalie. But we're growing by limps and bounds, so if you're interested in becoming an Operative, and you're not a giant hedgehog, leave a cryptically worded message of interest in the comments.
p.s. We may have Operation Chessboard and Operation Focus, but as dog is my witness, we will never have an Operation Operation. It would fail to tickle my funnybone.
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