Christmas! Yay!
Dec. 26th, 2007 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So, I arrived at a not too early time because Christmas in the Parentals household tends to involve a lot of waiting whilst father spends all his time doing the cooking.
Anyway, had fun. Received an assortment of presents of various levels of interest. Am intrigued that all the relatives insist on using nephew Chilli's real name rather than Chilli. His great gran goes for the compromise "Chilli Joseph". Seems to work.
Ate Dinner. Yum.
Watched Doctor Who... We keep getting these plot elements that are like the slammers on Galaxy Quest. No idea why Astrid had to kill herself. Doesn't she know how to stop the thing? Or jump off? Or something?
Showed my parents how to play Settlers of Catan. Non-gamers are a pain. Anything with remotely non-trivial rules and they suddenly get scared. Still, my dad enjoyed it. Mum dropped out early (established player drop-out rules - put all the resources back. Leave all their pieces on the board). Slightly unusual in that the high probability tiles were all wheat. Seems to have resulted in a lot of devcards.
Anyway, had fun. Received an assortment of presents of various levels of interest. Am intrigued that all the relatives insist on using nephew Chilli's real name rather than Chilli. His great gran goes for the compromise "Chilli Joseph". Seems to work.
Ate Dinner. Yum.
Watched Doctor Who... We keep getting these plot elements that are like the slammers on Galaxy Quest. No idea why Astrid had to kill herself. Doesn't she know how to stop the thing? Or jump off? Or something?
Showed my parents how to play Settlers of Catan. Non-gamers are a pain. Anything with remotely non-trivial rules and they suddenly get scared. Still, my dad enjoyed it. Mum dropped out early (established player drop-out rules - put all the resources back. Leave all their pieces on the board). Slightly unusual in that the high probability tiles were all wheat. Seems to have resulted in a lot of devcards.