Starfarers and CDs

[shanmonster]

Last night I played Starfarers of Catan. It's a good, solid game, but I'm unimpressed by all the fiddly little pieces. I'm particularly unimpressed by the materials used to make the mother ship pieces. The plastic is brittle and breaks easily. The game is new and has only been played on two occasions, yet the mother ships are already breaking. This does not bode well. Couldn't the manufacturers have used higher quality materials? Plus the pieces are very phallic, but that's not a bad thing. It adds entertainment value when pieces look like dildos, cock rings, and buttplugs.

I wanted to go to the gym this morning, but my back is just killing me. I'm not sure why. I don't recall doing anything which would have made it sore, but it feels like I've been trampled by a rugby team. I'm going to take an Advil before I model this afternoon, because standing makes my back hurt more. Oddly enough, my legs are fine despite the brutal workout at kung fu. Dmitrii and Linda's are very sore, though.

I'm in the process of reorganizing my CD collection. It's a daunting task, as I have about 500 or so, gathered over the years as DJ, music director, and freelance reviewer. I'd like to get rid of a few of them (ie. those of genres I don't enjoy), but first of all, I just want to get them in alphabetical/chronological order according to genre. My livingroom floor is swamped with teetering stacks.

Here I am, sorting through the D section:

Comments

[daughty.livejournal.com]

Hey, cool pix! OMG, you have even more CDs than my brother LOL. If this is supposed to be the "D" section only...

[forestmaster.livejournal.com]

Agreed it is a cool picture... I have a couple of friends that have a few *thousand* CDs... daunting task to reorganize every so often... one of them had his 3 year old start mixing liners and CDs up in different CD cases... he was *not* amused...

Also neat to see a picture shanmonster when she's not modeling or bellydancing or other stuff, too... in her "natural state" or habitat or something [quiet smile]

I have only around 200 CDs or so... I think... haven't counted in a while either... hrm...

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

Heh, she's *currently sorting* the D pile in that shot. It's the fourth one, clockwise, around that Great Arc. We don't have THAT many CDs! Sorry about the shitty quality of the picture, I'm the traditional photomanip guy, but I've been too busy to do my job lately....

[kamomil.livejournal.com]

You got any Jane Siberry that you want to get rid of? I can't find The Walking anywhere.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

'fraid not. The only Jane Siberry I own is on The Crow soundtrack.

Stafarers

[vureoelt.livejournal.com]

The only problem I remember is with the (rather desirable) rocket boosters. If it were for a component that was little used, that'd make things better, but still...

It's cool overall, just the components, while most are high quality, have this defect...

My favourite part is when we start reading the cards for each other and making stuff up as a gag, or the commentaries, before proceeding to what really happens. "What kind of 'merchants' are these that we have to fork over goods first before anything happens???"

Re: Stafarers

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I guess the company replaces the easily-broken pieces for free with something much sturdier. Dmitrii's replacements are in the mail.

Re: Starfarers

[vureoelt.livejournal.com]

IIRC, it's Mayfair... they're usually good about replacement bits.