the groundhog day project

Board game finished, just a couple weeks until Day 365. And, some speech team folk were over tonight--still here actually--to play some games. It is 1:07 AM. I'm starting to feel like there is nothing left to say. Which seems wrong. There is always more to say. Always. ... ... Or not. Perhaps if we'd played Groundhog Day: The Board Game tonight, but we were too busy with a few rounds of We Didn't Playtest This at All , a round of Zombie Dice , Carcassonne , Tsuro , a couple long rounds of Munchkin , and now Cards Against Humanity . I will have to get my kids to try out the Groundhog Day board game again tomorrow. In the meantime, Groundhog Day was entertaining today... a lot of reciting lines along with the film, a lot of complaining about Rita (from both me and my daughter Saer). Some talk (with my sister Bobbie) about dessert for the Day 365 party. Going with some thematic links to the film. ... It isn't that it is late. It isn't that the year of Gro...

This blog entry begins late--1:27 A.M.--because I've been playing games. Played some Tsuro , some Carcassonne , some Munchkin and some Monster Fluxx . Two members of the speech team are here at this point to watch Groundhog Day . Victor has seen the film before, even used it in an Impromptu round (like I have ) at Districts this past March. Tracey has not seen the movie before... so figure most of what follows will be descriptions of her responses, if any. For example, but not a very interesting example, she laughed at Larry's "Home Shopping Network" line. And at Phil imitating Rita in the van. (An aside: I was asked two nights ago what my (current) favorite scene in Groundhog Day was. As I hesitated in answering, Dr. Classen (who taught the class for which I wrote my Christ-figure paper) suggested that maybe that would be like picking a favorite child. Still, I tried to answer. I didn't go with my favorite per se, but a scene that is still consistently ent...

Today’s reason to repeat a day forever: to play games, lots of games. Life would be so very boring without them. Tonight, My kids and I played three games. The four of us played Zombie Dice , then Munchkin (but Hayley had to opt out part way through that game to work on a paper for school), then finally the Game of Life . Even Phil Connors realizes games are something worth putting effort into, as you can see in this deleted scene: My character’s name when the game began was something Hispanic—I can’t remember what because he got lost on his second turn and hit his head in a fall in the mountains and came down from the mountains calling himself The Man From the Mountain and he had three furry wives he found in a cave. They were named Dorene, Lorene and Morene. They had one daughter—Symphony—and adopted a son called Clever Boy who was caught burglarizing their lovely little home: Saer, playing as Maria… Johnson or Jackson, won the game. She had too many kids for her one car but p...