Weekend Update

Busy times here in the Duchy. 

Not only have I managed to defend my thesis, but on Friday the 24th, Sandy and I celebrated 33 years of marriage. Suffice to say, there have been good times, there have been bad times, but we've managed to make it work and I could not ask for a better friend and partner in life. 

 Enjoying our first course at a rather nice Italian place. Arugula salad and baked polenta. 

My friend Bob C. likes to detail the meals he and his wife eat when they go on cruises. I suppose I could have detailed our dinner, but I just can't be bothered. 

But we did go to our favourite diner for pie and coffee for dessert...

But it's not all about food here in the Duchy...well, sort of. 

Kicking about the InterWebs, I was looking for a set of rules that was used for a Moby-Dick wargame I saw at Historicon. Well, I didn't find them, but I did find these....

Called "Whalemen Wanted", it is a board game where the player plays the role of the captain of a whaler and your mission is to go and fill your hold with whale oil. There's a bit of accounting involved, which is appropriate, and the time frame focuses on the Golden Age, around the 1830s and 1840s. 

The map of the known world...I still have to cutty-cut and paste it together...

More playsheets...

I'm currently reading through the rules, and I hope to give an account of a (hopeful) success of a whaling voyage soon. 

Hopefully it won't take two to four years like a real whaling voyage for me to tell you a whale of a tale.