I decree a stalemate

After swear­ing for 15 years I would never ever do it, I played Axis and Allies today. The Spousal Unit to Be set up on the extra bed in my dorm room bed once, and after about an hour of try­ing to parse the rules I got exas­per­ated, sat down on the bed beside it, destroyed Asia and half of Europe, and declared vic­tory. I wasn’t going to play that game ever ever ever. I also never have suc­combed to Risk or almost any other war games of the board sort. Chess and check­ers notwith­stand­ing, of course.

Any­way, my friends are over, and peer pres­sure does work on me on rare occa­sions, depend­ing on the peers. And, dar­nit, of course I had a lit­tle bit of fun at it, too, after my brain stopped hurt­ing from so many rules all at once. Sooo many rules! We stopped after about 6 hours of game­play or so, because my atten­tion span had enough, but maybe it wouldn’t be incred­i­bly awful later now that I know the rules. Or… maaaaaybe I’d deign to play Risk. If Jared didn’t bring any blue decks over. I’m not promis­ing any­thing though.