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What I Did in 2002


I never seem to have as much time as I'd like to update this website. Part of the problem is that I spend too much time staring at the air; the other side of the problem is that I'm doing this stuff:

Games Played

No computer games (Civ2 & kids games) or design time counted.

Title# games# wins



Ace of Aces 4 3
Battle Cry (Bull Run) 1 0
Battleline 1 1
Battleship 10 3
Candyland 3 1
Carabande 1 0
Carrier (Coral Sea Intro) 2 2
Carrier (The First Carrier Battle)2 1
Carrier (Climax at Santa Cruz) 1 0
Carrier (Air Search Officer) 1 0
Carrier (Attack-Repeat-Attack) 1 0
Carrier Strike 4 3
Castle 1 0
Charades for Kids 2 0
Checkers 1 0
Chutes & Ladders 7 2
Clifford's Birthday Party 3 0
Clue 2 1
Condotierre 1 0
Dinosaurs of the Lost World 2 1
Dogfight 1 0
Dominoes/Chickenfoot 1 0
Don't Break the Ice 6 5
Don't Spill the Beans 2 1
Dungeon Game 2 1
Enchanted Dream Ball 16 8
Franklin Goes to School 4 1
Game of the States 8 2
Gin Rummy 2 2
Green Eggs and Ham 2 1
Hammerin' Iron II 1 0
Heave Ho! 1 1
History of the World (Hasbro/AH)1 0 (2nd place)
Indian Picture Game 3 0
Jenga 4 2
John Carter, Warlord of Mars 1 0
Junior Labyrinth 1 1
Kerplunk 5 3.5
Life 1 0
Lionheart 2 1
Lord of the Rings 1 0
Madeleine 1 1
Mage Knight: Dungeon 1 0
Maisy 1 1
Mini Dinos (Chase) 1 0
Mississippi Queen 9 1
Monopoly Junior 2 1
Montgolfiere 32 16
Mousetrap 3 1
Naval War 1 0
Outburst Jr. 2 1
Pickup Sticks 3 0
Pooh's Honey Pot Hunt 2 1
Pretty Pretty Princess 1 0
Samurai (Rio Grande) 2 0.5
Show & Tell 2 2
Skirmish (MB) 2 0
Sorry 7 3
Spite & Malice 6 2
Spyfox Spy Trap 2 1
The Thirty Years War 1 0.5
Tokyo Express (Basic Game) 1 0
Tokyo Express (Cape Esperance) 1 1
Tokyo Express (Guadalcanal I) 1 0
Trouble 4 1
War w/Yu-Gi-Oh cards 1 1
Waterworks 1 0
Yu-Gi-Oh Trading Card game 14 9

Models Built

Pfalz D.XII (Toko), representative
Modeling basically got sacrificed for exercising and my fear of my airbrush

Books Read

Who Wrote the Bible? Richard Friedman
Quartered Safe Out Here George Macdonald Fraser
Peepshow Joe Matt
Henry V William Shakespeare (3rd+ time, but not recently)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J. K. Rowling (aloud, 2nd time)
Albatros D.Va Robert Mikesh
Pacific Turning Point Charles Koburger, Jr.
Notes From a Small Island Bill Bryson
Ellet's Brigade Chester Hearn
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J. K. Rowling (aloud, 2nd time)
Guadalcanal Richard Frank
Kaigun David Evans and Mark Peattie
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling (aloud, 2nd time)
The Reckoning Charles Nicholl (3rd time, but not recently)
Tamburlaine, Pt 1 Christopher Marlowe (3rd time, but even less recently)
Tamburlaine, Pt 2 Christopher Marlowe (3rd time, but even less recently)
Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe (3rd time, but even less recently)
The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe (3rd time, but even less recently)
Edward II Christopher Marlowe (3rd time, but even less recently)
The Massacre at Paris Christopher Marlowe (3rd time, but even less recently)
Dirty Little Secrets of the Twentieth Century James Dunnigan
The Indispensible Calvin & Hobbes Bill Watterson
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Pacific Colin McEvedy
At Dawn We Slept Gordon Prange (etc)
Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment Richard Parkinson
Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power 1909-1941 Mark Peattie
The Shoemaker's Holiday Thomas Dekker (3rd time, but even less recently)
We Can Take It: A Short Story of the C.C.C. Ray Hoyt
Tarnished Icons Stewart Kaminsky
Fighting Firsts Jon Guttman
Day of Deceit Robert Stinnett
The Map That Changed the World Simon Winchester
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard
A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula Le Guin
The Pacific Campaign Dan van der Vat
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs
How to Lie with Statistics Darrell Huff
Without Feathers Woody Allen (Nth time)
Getting EvenWoody Allen (Nth time)
Side EffectsWoody Allen (Nth time)
Sharks Among Minnows Norman Franks
Air War Flanders - 1918 Robert Jackson
Henry VI, part 1 Shakespeare (Nth time)
Prometheus Bound Aeschylus
Henry IV, part 1 Shakespeare (Nth time)
Henry IV, part 2 Shakespeare (Nth time)
The Mother Tongue Bill Bryson
Henry VI, part 2 Shakespeare (Nth time)
Henry VI, part 3 Shakespeare (Nth time)
The Tombs of Atuan Ursula Le Guin
The Farthest Shore Ursula Le Guin
Richard III Shakespeare (Nth time)
Edward III ?Shakespeare
History Wars Linenthal & Engelhardt, eds
Downfall Richard Frank
Ramona and her Mother Beverly Cleary
Six Easy Pieces Richard Feynman
An Exhibit Denied Martin Harwit
Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson
From Atoms to Quarks James Trefil
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces Richard Feynman
The Emperor's Codes Michael Smith
Big Fleet Actions Eric Grove
The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918 Holger Herwig
The Autobiography of Larry Sanders Garry Shandling/David Rensin
The Reign of Henry VI R. A. Griffiths
A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs (aloud and again)
A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson
What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response Bernard Lewis
Saint Joan G. B. Shaw
Henry V, War Criminal? J. Sutherland & C. Watts
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century Tom Shippey
Smith of Wootton Major J.R.R. Tolkien
Farmer Giles of Ham J.R.R. Tolkien

Other Stuff

Lori got pneumonia again, so I got to be Mr. Mom for a few weeks. Fun but tiring.
We went to go visit Uncle Andy in New York City. Likewise fun but tiring.
Saw Uncle Andy again in Cape May. Fun!
More beach time in Nag's Head.
Lori and I got another round of pneumonia. Yikes!
I was den leader for the Wolf Cub Scouts. Absolutely exhausting.
We dodged the Beltway Sniper.
First Christmas at home in Vienna.
New Years at the Kentens. The kids actually went to sleep at midnight and slept 'til 10 AM.
Ending Weight: 194.5 lbs -- I can still do better, though

Dave Townsend / townsend@patriot.net

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