{"id":5008,"date":"2013-08-14T12:17:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T16:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2013-08-14T19:25:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T23:25:58","slug":"summer-vacation-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5008","title":{"rendered":"Summer vacation 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of weeks have been my vacation, and full of incident.This explains the absence of blogging.<\/p>\n<p>First, World Boardgaming Championships.  I did respectably, making quarter- and semi-finals in a couple of events, but failed in my goal to make the Power Grid finals again this year and place higher than fifth. <\/p>\n<p>I did very well in Conflict of Heroes, though; my final game &#8211; with the tournament organizer &#8211; was a an epic slugfest that attracted the attention of Uwe Eickert (the game&#8217;s designer) who watched the last half enthralled. I lost by only 1 point and was told I&#8217;d be put on the Wall of Honor.  I like my chances at the finals next year.<\/p>\n<p>Then Summer Weapons Retreat. Huge fun as usual; I spent most of the week working on Florentine (two-sword) technique. with some excursions into polearm and hand-and-a-half sword.  I&#8217;ve posted a few pictures on <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/108967323530519754654\/posts\">my G+ feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First full day I was home, a thunderstorm blew out the router in my basement. Yes I had it on a UPS, but ground surges (though rare) do happen; this one toasted the Ethernet switch.  Diagnosing, replacing, and dealing with the second-order effects of that ate most of yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Now life is back to relatively normal, though it will take a few days for the muscle aches from a week of hard training to entirely subside.  Blogging will resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of weeks have been my vacation, and full of incident.This explains the absence of blogging. First, World Boardgaming Championships. I did respectably, making quarter- and semi-finals in a couple of events, but failed in my goal to make the Power Grid finals again this year and place higher than fifth. I did&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5008\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer vacation 2013<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-martial-arts","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5010,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}