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winterbadger So, Saturday I got no bike ride in, partly because I slept late because I did not manage the "getting to bed early" I had planned for Friday. I got up relatively early, but spent most of the morning making lists of stuff I was taking to the IFL swapmeet. In the end, I went and had the massage (lovely!), then headed out tot he Game Parlor for the swap meet, but since I was alte and looking more to sell stuff than trade, I didn't unload anything except a Bloodbowl team. OTOH, I got enough from that to buy an Osprey book (about Stirling Bridge) and the first expansion deck for Chez Geek (which I've played several times with C&M lately, so I figured I'd get some more of the cards for it).
Since thunderstorms and lightning were predicted, the Screaming Eagles cancelled their tailgate, which gave me time to do a little tidying at home. Then I went over to RFK for the game. DC managed to beat a very lacklustre Kansas City handily. The game was interrupted by the aforementioned thunderstorm (the tailgate would, of course, have been fine; it din't start raining until well into the game). Well before it started raining, crowds of people started moving up to the shelter of the overhang of the upper deck. What is *with* these people? It wasn't raining at all at that point, just spitting slightly (literally, I felt about 5-6 raindrops over about 20 minutes) but heaven forfend they get even mildly moistened. Idiots.
Then it *did* start rumbling. The refs stopped the game; the tannoy told everyone to go into the concourse. So of course I moved down to the field-level seat where the supporters clubs were singing and drinking beer and waiting for the rain to fall. Which it did, in bucketloads. We all got gloriously soaked, as did the 2-3 beer vendors who knew better than to come in out of the rain when people were prepared to pay them $7 for a beer. :-) Eventually the rain slackened a bit and the teams came back on the field and started warming up and the fair-weather fans crept sullenly back to their seats, fortified from the deadly dihydrogen monoxide with copious rain capes, jackets, and (in some cases) vinyl boot-bags (whihc had been the gameday giveaway) used as hats. DC proceeded to score and eventually win. :-) I did a little more tidying when I got home, watched a little telly, and went to bed.
Sunday I got up, finished tidying and setting up for the miniatures game, and scurried out for a brunch date at Logan Tavern. I got home and finished typing up the scenario OB for the game as the payers began to arrive. We assembled around 3, started setting up around 4, began playing between 5 and 6, and finished around 12.30. :-) The scenario didn't turn out at all the way I expected it to, but everyone seemed to have fun and, as Marshal MacDonald, I got at least one swingeing cavalry charge in that overran a line of three or four Prussian batteries. I also managed to push two small corps of French infantry stolidly uphill through the rain into a mass of Russian defenders, bending one corner of their line back in the perfect prescribed fashion. We quit before I was able to smack the point d'appui with a division of excellent light cavalry, but it was coming...
And it was very approporiate to be replaying the battle of the Katzbach (August 1813) last night. The battle was fought in the middle of two days of pouring rain, with the Prussians driving a French army into the Neisse river with bayoent charges, as it was pouring down so hard they couldn't fire their muskets. And it was like that last night! At one point the power went out, and when C&M got home, they warned my guests about which roads were closed and where the underpasses were flooded out. C&M were very glad they had taken their new RAV4 downtown, as they needed its height to get through some of the lakes on northern Virginia roads last night.
More wargaming tonight, then the ladz on Tuesday, and maybe a chance to do some cleaning Wednesday. A possible date Thursday, then Ho! for the next weekend and a hike with C&M in the mountains (assuming it's not still raining!)
Still need to scan those docs to send to First Permit. :-(
Since thunderstorms and lightning were predicted, the Screaming Eagles cancelled their tailgate, which gave me time to do a little tidying at home. Then I went over to RFK for the game. DC managed to beat a very lacklustre Kansas City handily. The game was interrupted by the aforementioned thunderstorm (the tailgate would, of course, have been fine; it din't start raining until well into the game). Well before it started raining, crowds of people started moving up to the shelter of the overhang of the upper deck. What is *with* these people? It wasn't raining at all at that point, just spitting slightly (literally, I felt about 5-6 raindrops over about 20 minutes) but heaven forfend they get even mildly moistened. Idiots.
Then it *did* start rumbling. The refs stopped the game; the tannoy told everyone to go into the concourse. So of course I moved down to the field-level seat where the supporters clubs were singing and drinking beer and waiting for the rain to fall. Which it did, in bucketloads. We all got gloriously soaked, as did the 2-3 beer vendors who knew better than to come in out of the rain when people were prepared to pay them $7 for a beer. :-) Eventually the rain slackened a bit and the teams came back on the field and started warming up and the fair-weather fans crept sullenly back to their seats, fortified from the deadly dihydrogen monoxide with copious rain capes, jackets, and (in some cases) vinyl boot-bags (whihc had been the gameday giveaway) used as hats. DC proceeded to score and eventually win. :-) I did a little more tidying when I got home, watched a little telly, and went to bed.
Sunday I got up, finished tidying and setting up for the miniatures game, and scurried out for a brunch date at Logan Tavern. I got home and finished typing up the scenario OB for the game as the payers began to arrive. We assembled around 3, started setting up around 4, began playing between 5 and 6, and finished around 12.30. :-) The scenario didn't turn out at all the way I expected it to, but everyone seemed to have fun and, as Marshal MacDonald, I got at least one swingeing cavalry charge in that overran a line of three or four Prussian batteries. I also managed to push two small corps of French infantry stolidly uphill through the rain into a mass of Russian defenders, bending one corner of their line back in the perfect prescribed fashion. We quit before I was able to smack the point d'appui with a division of excellent light cavalry, but it was coming...
And it was very approporiate to be replaying the battle of the Katzbach (August 1813) last night. The battle was fought in the middle of two days of pouring rain, with the Prussians driving a French army into the Neisse river with bayoent charges, as it was pouring down so hard they couldn't fire their muskets. And it was like that last night! At one point the power went out, and when C&M got home, they warned my guests about which roads were closed and where the underpasses were flooded out. C&M were very glad they had taken their new RAV4 downtown, as they needed its height to get through some of the lakes on northern Virginia roads last night.
More wargaming tonight, then the ladz on Tuesday, and maybe a chance to do some cleaning Wednesday. A possible date Thursday, then Ho! for the next weekend and a hike with C&M in the mountains (assuming it's not still raining!)
Still need to scan those docs to send to First Permit. :-(
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Date: 2006-06-29 12:13 am (UTC)