Let Us Give Thanks, for Board Games

Wow, am I on a roll. On Wednesday my family had an early Thanksgiving meal (to allow my brother, Christopher, to have Thanksgiving on the actual day with his in-laws), so I was over at my parents' place most of the day. So what did I do there? Since it was a Thorne family gathering, we played games, of course. On that first day I played Commands & Colors: Ancients, Attika, Carcassonne, and Strat-O-Matic baseball. The next day, Thanksgiving, I actually was at home in the morning doing chores and writing a couple reviews for that anime website I am an editor for, but then I went to my parents' house at lunch, and some more Commands & Colors was played, as well as Eurorails. Then today I headed over in the morning after I got out of the gym and we played a lot of Shadows over Camelot, capped off with another game of Commands & Colors. I'm actually feeling a little gamed out, but tomorrow my wargaming club has a meeting, so I will be there in the afternoon, and then I am going to a friend's house to play some Arkham Horror, and maybe some Battlestar Galactica if we have time. It's all a bit much, I agree, but I love it!!!

The Rumors of my Death are Greatly Exaggerated

To allay the fears of anyone who thought that I was in my death throes yesterday, I am alive and (somewhat) well. While my current project has certainly tried to kill me, it has failed. So far, anyway.

Wiped Out

So, on Monday I had written that I was coming down with a cold. Well, if this is a cold it is a really severe one, as with colds I usually don't run a fever and have fever chills so bad I can barely stand up straight. Of course, since I'm on the road traveling for work, there is no calling in because you're sick. I mean, where would I go? I can't stay home because home is ~350 miles away. So I went to work anyway and did what I could. Not fun.

Not a Normal Fortune Cookie for an Auditor to Get

"You have a heart of gold."

- P.F. Chang's, Franklin, TN

Back in the Music City

I'm back in Nashville again, probably for the last time on my current project. I'm staying in a different hotel again, because the place I stayed last time was garbage. I just can't seem to find a place that satisfies me, because I insist that things work right. I'm irrational like that.

Speaking of irrational, as of today I have been employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers for a full six years. That is kind of a long time. When I hit my five year anniversary I had a fancy dinner at a steakhouse in Reno, NV. Tonight I went to P.F. Chang's and got a vegetarian stir-fry dinner, because I think I'm coming down with a cold. I chased my herbal tea with some drugs, so hopefully I sleep pretty well tonight. Such is the exciting life of a traveling internal auditor in 2009.