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Dragon's Blood

On Thurs­day, Randy T, Thu H, and I went back to Paci­fica Archery, since the free rentals expire at the end of the month and I wasn’t sure when I would be able to use it after this weekend.

Randy T went pro and has his own bow and arrows now. It was cheaper than expected, too. Now I’m think­ing about pick­ing up a set for myself.

Here’s how we did. Thu H had her own tar­get and pur­ple arrows. Randy T and I shared one tar­get; he had the green arrows and I had the pink ones.

I shot sig­nif­i­cantly bet­ter than last time. I think the big dif­fer­ence in how I shot is that last time, I only paid atten­tion to where the point of the arrow lined up before I released, but this time, I was care­ful to line the entire arrow (point to nock) up with the target.

How­ever, because of a com­bi­na­tion of bad form and inap­pro­pri­ate gear, I gave myself quite a nasty welt. It was stu­pid, really. I wasn’t bend­ing my bow arm enough, so the string would snap against it. The arm guard is sup­posed to pro­tect against that, but I grabbed a small one that only cov­ered the front half of my fore­arm. I think the the back edge of the small guard actu­ally caught the string a cou­ple of time when I should have been in the clear. Any­ways, it def­i­nitely looked a lot worse than it felt. There was min­i­mal pain, but the welt was a good cen­time­ter raised above the rest of my arm. And the bruise I had the next day (and still have now) is a good three inches across, but isn’t very sensitive.

Les­son learned! Next time, get the proper gear. And remem­ber to shoot right. And maybe wear a long-​sleeved shirt, too. :)

After­wards, we went back to Randy T’s place to see Erin B, who was on doctor’s orders to rest up. She was look­ing great, though. Only one month until Clark is due! We also really liked their house and their dogs. Sadly, I for­got to take pic­tures when we got there. Next time!

The Short Leg

After fin­ish­ing Act I, Thu H and I were pretty proud of our­selves and pumped to con­tinue, so last Mon­day, we met up with Jon K at Dolores Park to try to do Act II of the Games of Non­cha­lance. He and Chris­tine L had already done most of Act II, but were miss­ing one component.

Again, I’m split­ting up this post in case you feel like try­ing to com­plete Act II on your own.

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You Don't Know Forbidden Castle Pucks

After we wrapped up Act 1 of the Games of Non­cha­lance, Thu H and I caught a bus back to my place, and I drove us to meet up with Aaron L and Sue L for some board game action and to watch the Sharks game. Orig­i­nally, Sue L was going to host, but Chris T and Tina K offered up their place, so we headed to Hayward.

Got there in the mid­dle of a game of Car­cas­sonne. Got to try Kona Brew­ing Co.‘s Koko Brown, a coconut beer.

Pretty damn tasty!

Also had some Asahi Black while we watched the Sharks game. Chris T and Tina K also put out a cheese and dried fruit plat­ter and we classed it up with mul­ti­ple wines, includ­ing a Passover kosher one. Aaron L explained that to make wine good for Passover (“the bread­less hol­i­day”), they remove the yeast early before it raises. Not sure where that point is in the wine fer­men­ta­tion process, but it def­i­nitely tasted like it was stopped and then fortified.

Jason G also stopped by, and we played a cou­ple of games of You Don’t Know Jack, which Chris T had for his XBOX. Turns out, he used to play the orig­i­nal on PC back in the day, too! Play­ing with four play­ers at once was really fun. I really wish we could do it with the Steam ver­sion. Or bet­ter yet, net­work play!

After that, we taught every­one For­bid­den Island. Started on Nor­mal on a rel­a­tively easy board (all the impor­tant spots near the cen­ter), but still lost due to the water level reach­ing instant death levels.

After that, headed home. All in all, a fan­tas­tic way to spend a Saturday!