Risky business!

I wore this Guinness shirt for the first time since I bought it, many, many tears ago. It never fitted, until today...

Ruud, Eva and Mic came by to have dinner and play a few games of Risk in the evening. Here's Ruud and Eva.

And Mic and I.

War.

During the first game I was hardly a part of the game.

During the second game I managed to conquer and keep Australia and from there I fulfilled my assignment and won! I had to conquer 24 countries.

We also played a third game that Eva won.

Jillz SUCKS!

I bought the second part of my book. It's a graphic novel. Very nice :-)

Tonight, friends came over to play Risk but the dice are so bad to read that I decided to give them some new paint.

Ruud brought a bottle of Jillz to try. It's because of a running gag we had weeks ago with another mate of ours. It absolutely SUCKED!

Ruud, Mic and Eva came over. My games were shite. Worst night for me ever I think. And I was knackered.

Risky business

Mic, Gerrit, Eva and Nantko came over tonight to have dinner and play a game of Risk. We ordered Indian take-away at 19:30 which was delivered at 21:15.

After wolfing down the food we finally managed to start at 22:00.

Basically the game went like this:
- I managed to get hold of South America early on.
- Eva tried to get hold of North America, which I kept preventing.
- The others were getting stronger because I was focussing on not letting Eva get away with North America.
- I got my first 10 extra armies and took Australia away from Nantko and Gerrit.
- I got tired of keeping Eva under control. Now that I was getting 4 armies every turn for 2 continents, I offered Eva a non-attack deal so that we could both focus on our assignment. She agreed. Very much disliked by Mic (fair enough)
- The deal worked out nice and allowed me to conquer Africa as well.
- Just before I was about to conquer 24 territories for my assignment, Eva completed her assignment for which she needed 3 continents.

Eva manages to win at least 1 game of Risk or settlers of Catan every single time we play. Maybe it's the little bit of German blood in her ;-)

The great day

This is my colleague Sylvester who sits next to me at work. He has an AZ hat so we are good friends! ;-)

My colleagues Sam, Geert and Norbert. Geert is waving to a helicopter. He did that before but I asked him to do it again so I could take a picture. Had I told him it was for a picture he'd have prolly not waved again hehe.

In the evening I had a few friends over for a few games of Risk. It turned out to be very nice evening in very good spirits. Lots of laughs and chatter.

Eva, Danny and Gerrit were there...

... and Daan and Mic.

Sometimes we were very focussed too...

I did actually have Australia at some point but I was unable to win any of the three games we played. We finished at 2:30 and people were getting a bit tired.

Geek-Risk

Three o'clock beer. Coopers dark ale is very nice.

I organised a game of Risk in the evening. Here we see Justin, Ben and Dale.

Dale, Natalie and Luke.

This is an old version of the game. Beautiful board though but old crappy rules.

I had a great time. Ben won the one game we played eventually.