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What I Did in 2004


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



Age of Mythology 1 0
Amazing Labyrinth 1 1
Alhambra 1 0
Battle Masters 3 0
Battleship 1 1
Battle Cry: 1st Bull Run1 0
Blue vs Grey 5gu 4
Carcassonne 3 0
Carrier Strike 1 1
Cartagena 2 1
Charades for Kids 1 0
Citadels 1 0
Clue 2 1
Clue Jr 2 1
Condotierre 1 0
Crazy Eights 3 1
Cranium Cadoo 1 0.5
Dogfight 1 0
Elfenland 1 1
For the People 2 1
Formula Motor Racing 1 0
Go Fish (cards) 1 0
Guillotine 3 2
Heave Ho! 1 0
Labyrinth Junior 3 2
Lionheart (MB) 1 1
Maya Madness 1 1
Memoir '44 4 1
Message to the Czar 1 0
Mississippi Queen 2 1
Monopoly Junior 1 0
Montgolfiere 5 2
Operation 2 2
Outburst Jr. 3 2
Paths of Glory 2 2
Pretty Pretty Princess1 1
Princess & the Pea1 0
Red Baron (minis) 1 0
Rome: Hannibal vs Rome2 0
Rome: Imperium 1 0
Runebound 1 0
Samurai (Knizia) 1 0.5
Show and Tell 1 1
Sorry 1 1
Stratego 1 1
Sudz 8 4
Sword of Rome 1 0
Thirty Second Mysteries1 0
Transformers Armada 4 0
War (card game) 3 2
We the People 6 5
Wings of War 6 1
Yu-Gi-Oh trading cards1 0

Models Built

Books Read

Chaos James Gleick
The Road to Middle Earth Tom Shippey
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics Larry Gonick
The Macmillan Dictionary of the First World War S. Pope & E. Wheal
Alice in Wonderland L. Carroll (aloud, again)
Through the Looking Glass L. Carroll (aloud, again)
Unfinished Tales J. R. R. Tolkien (again)
The Book of Lost Tales, Part I J. R. R. Tolkien (again)
Peter Pan & Wendy J. M. Barrie (aloud, again)
The Book of Lost Tales, Part II J. R. R. Tolkien (again)
Back to the Front Stephen O'Shea
Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography Marc Dierikx
A Fighting Man of Mars E. R. Burroughs (aloud)
The Great Comic Book Heroes Jules Feiffer (again)
Aircraft versus Aircraft Norman Franks
The E Myth Revisited Michael Gerber
Somme Success Peter Hart
Pictorial History of the German Army Air Service Alex Imrie
g Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan Fuchida & Okumiya
The Cartoon History of the Universe, Vol III Larry Gonick (again)
Swords of Mars E. R. Burroughs (aloud)
The First World War John Keegan
Mary Poppins P. L. Travers
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves Lynne Truss
Airfields & Airmen: Somme Mike O'Connor
The Annotated Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum & M. P. Hearn
The Ironclads of Cambrai Bryan Cooper
Goshawk Squadron Derek Robinson
The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War David Herrmann
No Way to Treat a First Lady Christopher Buckley
Castles of Steel Robert Massie
Synthetic Men of Mars E. R. Burroughs (aloud)
Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy D. Stevenson
Cambrai: Airfields & Airmen Mike O'Connor
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them Al Franken
Inventing a Nation Gore Vidal
Imperial America Gore Vidal
Bushwacked Molly Ivins & Lou Dubose
Paris 1919 Margaret MacMillan
The Killing Ground Tim Travers
McAuslan in the Rough G. M. Fraser (again)
The Price of Glory Alistair Horne
The DaVinci Code Dan Brown
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster (aloud)
Envisioning Information Edward Tufte (again)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information E. Tufte (again)
Visual Explanations Edward Tufte (again)
A Dictionary of Euphemisms & Other Doubletalk H. Rawson
Henry IV Pt 1 Shakespeare (a perennial favorite)
Llana of Gathol E. R. Burroughs (aloud)
Henry IV Pt 2 Shakespeare (again)
The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd (again)
A New Way to Pay Old Debts Philip Massinger (again)
Volpone Ben Jonson (again)
Thomas of Woodstock Unknown A Cure for a Cuckold John Webster (again)
Shakespeare's English Kings Peter Saccio (again)
The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History Colin McEvedy (another perennial favorite)
The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History Colin McEvedy (ditto)
The Meaning Of It All R. Feynman
The Story of Decipherment M. Pope
Unweaving the Rainbow R. Dawkins
What Remains to be Discovered John Maddox
Wiseguy Nicholas Pileggi
Patriotic Gore Edmund Wilson
Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1 E. Gibbon
Writing Systems G. Sampson (again)
The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History C. McEvedy
The New Penguin Atlas of Recent History C. McEvedy
Chronicles, Vol. 1 Bob Dylan

Other Stuff

New Years at the Kentens. Kids bedtime 1:00, the boys stayed up a bit. Parents awake before kids.
Jeffrey's 2nd basketball season (Panthers)
Ed Con XI. No wins (as usual) but lots of fun
Kids first Spring Festival for piano lessons
Jeffrey's 3nd soccer season; Uncle Andy was here for the first game
Played in a giant
Close Action scenario (Madras, 1756?)
Third year at Cape May with the rest of the family
Michelle's 2nd Gymnastics demonstration
The kids had another piano recital and did great
Went to Boulder City for a week, visiting Great Grandma Lorraine
Kids start 4th & 2nd Grade
Jeffrey starts viola lessons at school
Cousin Bryan gets married -- first wedding for the kids
Kids get glasses
Actually finished a game design (Flugzeugwerke) Jeffrey's 3rd basketball season -- he scores 13 pts in one game
Slow going to Christmas in Hampton due to 8" of snow
Ending weight: 194 lbs

Dave Townsend / townsend@patriot.net

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