What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[SamuraiMegas]

Depressed beyond belief still- I have already broken down and cried three times today. I just beleive this, he was so young.

[Stark]

I think we will loosely plan to play some Carcassone and Tikal if when it's chilly (been 40's during day, high 20's at night past week or so) and maybe take a walk through the woods during the afternoon when it's crisp, but not cold. Even that is loosely planned. This is a rare occurrence to have zilch to do. We even have plenty of gas, milk, eggs and bread. All is well.

Enjoy the time! I've not heard of Tikal, looks like fun. Have you played Dominion? Definitely a fun family game.

Smile: My father-in-law is coming over and helping me with the bunk beds I'm building for the girls, projects like this are just so much better when you have someone to help motivate you and move the project forward. Plus I love my father-in-law. He's great.

[mjmjr25]

Enjoy the time! I've not heard of Tikal, looks like fun. Have you played Dominion? Definitely a fun family game.

Smile: My father-in-law is coming over and helping me with the bunk beds I'm building for the girls, projects like this are just so much better when you have someone to help motivate you and move the project forward. Plus I love my father-in-law. He's great.

Yeah, we like Dominion a lot. I'm an aggressive board game player, so I always load it up w/Thieves and Witches.

Tikal is intimidating - it takes a good 2-hour "walkthrough" until you feel like you understand everything, and even then you have to keep referring to the rules. Once you get it going, very fun. The components are very well made - very thick cardstock and pieces.

Lost Cities is a GREAT game if you don't have much room and don't like a learning curve. Takes about 5 mins to learn, can play in a confined space, and a round takes about 10-12 minutes. Balloon Cup and Ticket to Ride (Nordic version) are high on our playlist as well.

Nice, bunk beds are fun and relatively straightforward, depending how intricate you want to get w/the ladder and built in drawers. Be sure to not put them together until your in the room...most bunk beds will not fit through doors of course.

[Stark]

Lost Cities is a GREAT game if you don't have much room and don't like a learning curve. Takes about 5 mins to learn, can play in a confined space, and a round takes about 10-12 minutes. Balloon Cup and Ticket to Ride (Nordic version) are high on our playlist as well.

Yeah I love Lost Cities and Ticket. Hmm maybe we need a board game thread?

Nice, bunk beds are fun and relatively straightforward, depending how intricate you want to get w/the ladder and built in drawers. Be sure to not put them together until your in the room...most bunk beds will not fit through doors of course.

Sage advice. I'm making them so they will come apart. Eh? EHHHH?? Thinking ahead man.

[mjmjr25]

I planned that part as well, it went in the room in (2) bed sections, (4) long posts, and (20-ish) support rails. It took a good 2 hours to get all the bolts and screws into place, part of it was kids climbing over me as I did it, part of it was (16 bolts) and (80) screws take some time. My guess is "uninstall" will take 75 minutes when we move them downstairs, and another 75 to "reinstall".

[Luke]

Smile/Frown: I really shouldn't buy the new catch phrase should I? Should I?

[REPO Man]

Shipping internationally is too much of a hassle.

This is something I have never understood...

It's more expensive. But more of a hassle?...

I don't get it...

Paperwork. There's some with international and none with domestic. And eBay's means of charging for shipping makes it too hard to actually break even on the shipping.

And when I shipped my to-date-only int'l order, the shipping was so much, I technically LOST money, since the price+shipping I charged was actually LESS than what the post office charged me. And I can't remember, but it may have been the one where the buyer claimed the item was broken when s/he got it and that's how I got my only negative review to date.

[mjmjr25]

The frustrating part about international for me is explaining to intl buyers that paypal gives (2) shipping options if the payment is by goods.

Priority - Expensive
Express - Very expensive

I ship intl. all the time, but having the same conversations and explaining this does get old.

If buyers pay by gift and understand there is no tracking on first class, then yes, it can be cheap, but most people don't want to do the no tracking part, but they want the cheap part...just not possible for US shippers going overseas.

[elmagicochrisg]

If buyers pay by gift and understand there is no tracking on first class, then yes, it can be cheap, but most people don't want to do the no tracking part, but they want the cheap part...just not possible for US shippers going overseas.

If I know someone is a good seller, then I ask them to ship First Class International...

In that case I take full responsibility for lost packages. That's only fair...

As for eBay, I've had so many packages from the US sent to me First Class.

Almost never seems to be a problem for the seller...

And it almost always works out just fine...

[mjmjr25]

...and if you were a dishonest person, like some folks just are, you could say you never got those packages and win every single case. On ebay you must prove the package arrived - that can't be done on 1st class.