If you're in the Arlington, Texas area on any Thursday night come by Borders of Arlington Heights and game with the South Arlington Gamers from 6:00pm - 10:00pm.
http://www.borders.com/online/store/StoreDetailView_249Boardgames have been a life-long fascination and it's great to have discovered and become an active participant in this wonderful website.
I am a teacher, and teach I must whether it be geometry or Puerto Rico, hence the Game Explainer Microbadge. My wife of over 30 years and I reside in Grand Prairie, Texas, but my working world is centered in Arlington.
I was once assigned to the 93d Evacuation Hospital when it was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. My rank was 2nd lieutenant and my branch Medical Service Corps. The unit badge of the 93d Evac has the Latin words, "Fide et Fiducia" (fidelity and confidence.) With this badge I hereby honor the military service of not only myself, but my wife as well, who served with distinction as the Unit Clerk of the 93rd. Here she is receiving an award from the commanding general of Fort Leonard Wood. The lieutenant pictured in the 2nd image is I during a February training exercise at Fort Leonard Wood. It was aptly codenamed, "Frigid Eagle."
From left to right: A major general, a 1st Sergeant, a lieutenant colonel, a 1st lieutenant, and a Specialist 5 (that would be Judy!)
Here is the unit badge of the 93d Evacuation Hospital. "Fide et Fiducia" is Latin for faithfulness and confidence.
My current avatar is taken from a picture taken last summer on a visit to Atlanta, Georgia. My grandchildren, fraternal twins, Lacey, Joshua and I are photographed during our visit to the Coca-Cola Museum in the downtown area.
My current Geek Badge "Game Refiner" reflects two aspects of board gaming that I enjoy most -- improving the storage and organization of the components of games and contributing variants of established games to the BGG community. I believe that cards should normally be held together tightly (not by rubberbands!) but by cardboard sleeves, rather than tuck boxes. Here's an example from the game
Caesar & Cleopatra.
I've also contributed useful variants to popular games such as T&E and New England. I'm always looking for ways to improve the games I cherish.
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“Nowadays, we have Christian values floating around
detached from one another. Consequently, we see
scientists who care only about truth but have no pity,
and humanitarians who care only about pity but have no
truth.” - G.K. Chesterton
"Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights and democracy. . . . To this day, we have no other options. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter." (Jurgen Habermas)
"We shall not weary, we shall not rest, until every unborn child is protected in law and welcomed in life. We shall not weary, we shall not rest, until all the elderly who have run life’s course are protected against despair and abandonment, protected by the rule of law and the bonds of love. We shall not weary, we shall not rest, until every young woman is given the help she needs to recognize the problem of pregnancy as the gift of life. We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person—of every human person." - Richard John Neuhaus
