Two-for-one ebooks at House of Anansi Press
In a shrewd and thoughtful move, House of Anansi Press is currently doing a “Reading Apart Together” promotion where if you buy any ebook for yourse...
Author: Reay
Isolation Day 19 Games: Sushi Go!, Fast Flip Pizza
Sushi Go! is a fun, quick game that’s easy to pick up and is flexible enough that it works for two or more players. The goal of the game is to get the mos...
Isolation Day 18 Games: Ingenious, Fast Flip Pizza
Ingenious is a great game and can be played by kids and grown-ups alike. Players have a “hand” of six funky two-hex tiles (which look something like...
When alleged convenience is less convenient
I’m in a lottery pool with a couple of family members. Nothing much, just an arrangement where we each spend $5 a week on some flavour of lottery and we s...
And the winner is…
ProtonMail! After running a few tests with some family and friends in my search for some digital privacy, ProtonMail edged out the only real competition it had ...
Isolation Day 13 Games: Seven Dragons, Go Fish
Seven Dragons has been a staple among our games for several years now. It’s easy to learn and with it being just a deck of cards and being pretty quick to...
Isolation Day 12 Game: Tsuro
We love board games in our household, and never have time to play them as much as we’d like to. Or rather, we hadn’t had time until a certain pandem...
I make things that amuse me
I can’t tell you how often I come up with an idea for a visual gag and either take the time to cobble it together on the fly on my phone, or takes a littl...
What I’m reading
**HERE THERE BE WEE SPOILERS*** I’ve was finally getting around to reading Wanderers by Chuck Wendig, and was really enjoying it but then a couple of thin...
An empty Good Stuff Jar is a sad thing
I’ve written about our Good Stuff Jar previously, wherein you write down good things that happen through the year and then jumble them up and read them ou...