When I first thought about retiring, the obvious question was: What am I going to do when I retire? I thought about it for a few minutes, and my first idea was to have the childhood I missed out on because so much messed up stuff was happening. Even though that didn’t become the main thrust of my retirement, every month I try to take a day and do something that I might have done as a child, although perhaps updated a little. This are short little projects that aren’t worth a write up, but I thought I could write them up in batches of five. Here’s the first five, at least since I started my Icosipental Plan.
Category: Board Games
So I decided to reorganize my board games, shifting the storage to mostly vertical. I thought I would post about the experience and what I learned about doing in.
Since moving back to Charlottesville, I have gotten back into board games. I’m probably playing more board games these days than I ever have in my life. I now own over 200 games (or over 2,500 depending on how you define “game” and “own”). I play games two to four nights a week, mostly at a board game night at a local game store that I helped revive. I’m also on my computer a lot, programming and analyzing and reading and so on. You can play board games online these days, including at a place called Board Game Arena (BGA). Sounds like a perfect place for me, right? Except for the crippling anxiety.
In the past couple of years I have not only been playing a lot of board games, but I have been working on rebuilding my collection of board games after the minimalism purge of the noughties. Being a somewhat obsessive statistician, I had a spreadsheet where I was keeping track of all of these games. But I had some problems with the spreadsheet, and so I wanted to redo it, but that was going to be a lot of work.