Alas poor blog

I finished both Let's Pretend this Never Happened and Red, White and Blood over this past week. One was extremely funny and worth reading, the other had it's moments but wasn't quite as good as the two previous installments. A shame really. Lawson's book (the funny one) was hilarious, horrifying, and surprisingly sweet. Quite often at the same time. If you've read her posts over at The Bloggess, you know what you're getting into. Otherwise be prepared for lots of humor, swearing and randomness. Giant metal chickens will be mentioned.

Farnsworth's book (the vampire one) is enjoyable enough, but doesn't quite match up with the two previous Cade novels. I'm not quite certain what it was either. The plot is decent enough and the characters are fun to hang out with again (except for Holt, really don't care for her) so I'm not sure why I didn't like it as much. The ending certainly leaves you wondering what will happen in the sequel. That book has some potential.

(Psst, the third Hex Hall book is out. I'm going to have to read it.)

Last week there was a giant sale on Pixeljunk games over on PSN. I snagged about 4 of them for $3. They are all rather enjoyable. Racer is a fun little slot car type game with a lot of different game modes. Plus the multiplayer can be pretty good. Monsters is tower defense, Shooter is a sort of Defender like type game with a heat mechanic (your ship will overheat and explode if you don't cool it off), and Eden is a puzzle/dexterity game where you need to help grow a garden by guiding a critter around the level in search of pollen and seed type things.

McK is trying to overcome a serious losing streak in softball. They've had to cancel one game and lost the other three. Four, possibly five to go. M has her first game (I believe) tonight. We shall see... Well, lovely wife will at any rate.

Epic Games over in Lehi does a family game night on Mondays. We finally managed to make it over and learned to play Evo. It's an interesting little game where you play dinosaurs trying to stay alive as long as you can before the meteor crashes into the Earth destroying everyone. It has a nifty little mechanic where you can bid on traits that will help you survive (fur for colder areas, umbrellas for warmer areas, feet to help you move more dinosaurs, etc.) by using your victory points. So you can potentially bid lots to get what you need, but then lose the game because you spent your points. G now wants a copy. I wouldn't mind one either. Unfortunately, we were playing the first edition of the game and the reprint changed things up some. So you no longer get little chits to attach to your dinosaur to show your upgrades and so on. It looks like it's pretty hard to find the first edition. So if any of you run across the old Descartes/Eurogames edition, let us know (not the new Asmodee box with the realistic looking dinosaurs on the cover).