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800 Hidden Plastic Jars
Posted by Martin R on May 9, 2013 The other day somebody hid a geocache a short bike ride from my house at a spot where, I now know, an orienteering-themed fraternal order was founded in 1930. Today I rode out and became the second person to log the cache. And coming home I realised it was my 800th find since I started…
London Weekend With Both The Young Dudes
Posted by Martin R on October 1, 2012 Spent Friday though Sunday in London with Junior and his buddy, both 14. My original plan had been to find a gaming convention with both a video game track and a boardgame track. But failing that, I got tickets for the Eurogamer Expo at the Earls Court Convention Centre in London, which is all video…
I Am Sailing
Posted by Martin R on September 12, 2012 
My dad’s a member of a yacht club in order to have sheltered jetty space for his motorboat. It’s not a fancy affair, most of the boats being small and decades old. But many of them are sailboats, and for the past ten years the club has been organising family-oriented mini races in the evenings.…
Vacation Fun
Posted by Martin R on August 5, 2012 Spent a week gloriously off-line at my mom’s glorious summer house in the archipelago. Oh the joy of reading 300 pages for fun in one day without feeling the need to check e-mail! Here are the books I read: Invented Knowledge. False history, fake science and pseudo-religions. Ronald H. Fritze 2009. One amazing essay covers…
Weekend Fun
Posted by Martin R on June 11, 2012 
Played the zombie movie boardgame Last Night On Earth and Airlines Europe, both very enjoyable. Had a party where I couldn’t understand what anybody said since they spoke Mandarin, but I was happy being Grillmeister, waitor and dishwasher. Logged five geocaches, which involved cycling around, climbing a tree and faffing about in the woods north…
Weekend Fun
Posted by Martin R on March 26, 2012 I had some bad news about two Boomer dudes that I know and like(d): one died of lung cancer the other day, and the other was diagnosed with leukemia. But apart from that I had a pretty good weekend: Played Eclipse again, got royally whipped. Gave a talk and did some debating at a skeptics’…
Weekend Fun
Posted by Martin R on March 5, 2012 Played Eclipse for the first time with my new Muscovite friends Anton & Maria and frequent guest Swedepat. This Finnish 2011 boardgame has become a runaway international hit and is currently ranked #7 on Boardgame Geek. It’s about interstellar colonialism: good fun, very neatly designed, and has a lot of inherent replayability. I look forward…
Weekend Fun
Posted by Martin R on December 12, 2011 Been a while since I wrote one of these. Here’s what I did for fun this past weekend. Attended an afternoon scifi mini-convention at the Tech Museum, organised by my dear old Tolkien Society buddy and gaming group regular Carolina Gomez Lagerlöf. I heard good talks by journalist Jörgen Städje, scifi scholar Dr. Jerry Määttä,…
Skiing Holiday, Broken Bone
Posted by Martin R on March 3, 2011 Sweden is shaped like a ski, and people live mainly in the southern quarter, but in the other three-quarters there are many skiing resorts. I’ve been going there every few years since I was three. I’m not a competitive or particularly elegant down-hill skier, but I enjoy it and I can get down all kinds…
Weekend Fun
Posted by Martin R on February 7, 2011 Celebrated 100th birthday of my mom’s aunt, a sprightly and clear-minded lady who likes conversation and hugs and has no problem recognising her niece’s kids who rarely visit. Attended concert with six kids’ choirs (including Juniorette’s). One of the choirs had five boys, the others
