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What I Did in 2003


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 1 1
Battleship 5 3
Blue vs Gray (QED/GMT) 11 6
Candyland 2 1
Carrier (Coral Sea Scenario) 1 0
Cartagena 9 6
Charades for Kids 5 2
Checkers 1 0
Condotierre 2 1
Chutes & Ladders 2 1
Clue 3 2
Cootie 2 0
Dogfight 1 1
Enchanted Dream Ball 3 2
Formula Motor Racing 11 4
Game of the States 1 1
Go Fish 1 1
Hellas 1 0
Ivanhoe 1 0
Kerplunk 2 0
Lego Racers 4 1
Life 2 0
Lord of the Rings (Knizia) 1 1
Maya Madness 3 2
Maisy 1 1
Mini-Dinos: Dinosaur Chase 3 1
Mini-Dinos: Stomping Dinos 3 2
Mississippi Queen 3 1
Monopoly Junior 4 1
Montgolfiere 13 9.5
Mousetrap 2 1
Mystery Rummy #3 (Jekyll/Hyde) 1 0
Pokemon: Master Trainer 1 1
Puerto Rico 1 0
Rome: Circus Maximus 6 3
Rome: Hannibal vs Rome 4 1
Rome: Imperium 6 3
Samurai (Knizia) 1 0.5
Settlers of Catan 2 1
Simpson's Trivia Game 2 0
Slapjack 1 0
Spite & Malice 3 1
Sorry! 4 1
Stratego 4 3
Therapy 1 0
Thirty Second Mysteries 4 2
Thirty Years War 1 0.5
Wallenstein 1 1
Whosit! 2 2
Yu-Gi-Oh! 2 1
Zero! (Dogfights) 4 0
Zero! (Pearl Harbor solo) 1 0

Models Built

none yet -- made some progress, though, and 2004 will be better

Books Read

Major Barbara G.B. Shaw
Quivers: A Life Robin Quivers
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire Amanda Foreman
Lindbergh A. Scott Berg
The Myth of the Great War John Mosier
The Elegant Universe Brian Greene
Knights of the Air Ezra Bowen
Sunburned Country Bill Bryson
Just For Fun Linus Torvalds & David Diamond
The Pacific War, 1941-1945 John Costello
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs (aloud, 2nd time)
Donny Brasco Joe Piston
The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs (aloud, 2nd time)
Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs (aloud)
Power and Terror Noam Chomsky
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Paul Kennedy
Guadalcanal Edwin Hoyt
I'm a Stranger Here Myself Bill Bryson
A Smithsonian Book of Comics M. Barrier & M. Williams, eds
The Destruction of the Bismarck D Bercuson & H. Herwig
At War at SeaRonald Spector
The Prehistory of the Far Side Gary Larson
Barker VC Wayne Ralph
Monitor James deKay
Samurai Saburo Sakai
Battle of Wits Stephen Budiansky
Faster James Gleick
The Master Mind of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs (aloud)
The Thurber Carnival James Thurber
The Cartoon History of the Universe III Larry Gonick
The Rise of the Fighter Aircraft Richard Hallion (again)
Tales of the Batman Martin Greenberg (ed)
Ramona's World Beverly Cleary (aloud)
Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling
De Havilland Aircraft of World War I (both volumes) Colin Owers
Airfields & Airmen: Ypres Colin Owers
Hunting with Richthofen Karl Bodenschatz, tr. Jan Hayzlett
Fighting Fury James McCudden
Horses Don't Fly Frederick Libby
Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling (again, aloud)
The Sky on FireRaymond Fredette
Flashman & the Tiger (again) George Macdonald Fraser
Flashman (again) George Macdonald Fraser
Royal Flash (again) George Macdonald Fraser
Flashman's Lady (again) George Macdonald Fraser
Flashman & the Mountain of Light (again) George Macdonald Fraser
Flash For Freedom (again) George Macdonald Fraser
Flashman at the Charge (again) George Macdonald Fraser
Flashman and the Great Game (again) George Macdonald Fraser
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (again) George Macdonald Fraser
Flashman and the Dragon (again) George Macdonald Fraser
The Pyrates (again) George Macdonald Fraser
The First World War: To Arms Hew Strachan
Connections James Burke (a repeat, but not for years)
Conan Robert Howard, etc. (a repeat, but not for years)
Germany's First Air Force Peter Kilduff
Air Power of the Kingdom of Bulgaria (Vol. II) Fark Ood
Dog-Fight Norman Franks
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century Tom Shippey
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien Humphrey Carpenter (ed)

Other Stuff

New Years at the Kentens. The kids actually went to sleep at midnight and slept 'til 10 AM.
I was den leader for the Wolf Cub Scouts. Absolutely exhausting.
I attended EdCon X
Lori co-coaches Odyssey of the Mind for Jeffrey & Michelle (The problem: Music Lessons)
Michelle begins piano lessons
We dug ourselves out of the 18" of snow in the Great Blizzard of '03
I attended SalCon I
Jeffrey's 1st year of baseball
My 40th Birthday
Rainiest May/June in memory -- cold, too
Jeffrey accepted at Louise Archer, our local Gifted & Talented school
Michelle's first piano recital
Jeffrey begins piano lessons
Townsend Family Reunion in Hampton
My first tie-requiring job, downtown at Health & Human Services
2nd Year at Cape May to see Uncle Andy's show (Two for the Road)
Lori gets pneumonia again
Hurricane Isabel knocks out power for two days
Aunt Ruby passes away; first funeral the kids can remember
Jeffrey's 2nd season of basketball
2nd Christmas spent at home
Lori sick again over Christmas (though not pneumonia at least)
Ending Weight: 195 lbs -- this is the wrong direction

Dave Townsend / townsend@patriot.net

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