Happy Zombie

Mind Games (r) up in Albany was, by and large, a great success. Currently, I am more zombified than I've been in a long time, having stayed up until about 3am (again) playing games, and then I started doing some clean-up to make searching for "orphaned" game pieces easier... "re-fluffing" of the games started at 4:30am and went until 8:30am with a slowly increasing amount of help from a few others (ugh - I need sleep!).

Enough time to stumble to breakfast, and get to the main room early for good seating to see and hear well at the game giveaway. I was astonished at just how long all of my preferred games were still available during the giveaway (as usual, I was about 3/4 of the way down the list) -- I got my 3rd and 6th choice of game, and 3 of my top 6 games were announced as the Mensa Select (r) winners for 2011.

The Mensa Select winners were:
InStructures
Stomple
Uncle Chestnut's Table Gype
Pirate vs. Pirate
Pastiche

I am going home with a copy of Train of Thought (very funny game) and Scruble Cube (think 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube combined with Scrabble).

After lunch out of the hotel with some friends, I conked out in a chair in the hotel lobby for a couple of hours, but I still look and feel like the walking dead. I can't wait to collapse on my bed... in 4 hours. (ugh)

Once I have returned to the land of the living in the next day or two, I should be able to take a look at e-mail and approve any blog comments that may have been sent in over the weekend.