Notes from Hades

erhaps it is to compensate for the fact that I had no travel last time, but this time, I had two trips. The first trip was to Rome. There are typically two types of meetings I go to: Interim meetings of working groups, and the Forum. The Forums take place twice per year, and the first of them for this year was in Rome. Forums tend to be much busier than interim meetings, since I have a leadership position within the organization which means that I have meetings during the week from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm. This leaves little time for sightseeing, unfortunately. However, I was able to take part of the day on Sunday to go see the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill. Our hosts also provided a social event, which was a brief tour of the Capitoline Museum, followed by a buffet dinner on the top of one of the museum buildings overlooking the old Roman Forum. Overall, the city was very nice, and the food was excellent. I very much enjoyed Rome, and would like to see more of the city.

My second trip was to Amsterdam. This was a working meeting, so I had a bit more time to see the city. I took a couple of canal tours and did a fair amount of walking in the city, but I wasn't able to hit some of the more famous landmarks, such as the Anne Frank House and the main museum, with its large collection of Rembrandt paintings. Overall, I enjoyed the city, though.

Beyond that, not much new to report.

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Frontier Dog. Gunslinger .Scenario to be determined. Have Paul Bolduc, Chris Geggus, Mike Scott, Andy Lewis, and James Pratt. Starts this issue!

Hunter. Silverton. Will start after Terrier ends. Have Dave Partridge, Michael Longdin, Ward Narhi, Cary Nichols, Bill Scharf, and Dave Hooton. This game is full.

Procyon. Merchant of Venus. Have Dave Partridge, Bob Robles, Chris Geggus, Dennis Cain, Andy Lewis, and Andy York. Starts this issue!

Dogbreath. History of the World. Have Chris Geggus, Dave Partridge, Andy Lewis, Kevin Wilson, will take up to 3 more.

Basset. Outpost. Will start after Hound ends. Have Andy York, Cary Nichols, Dave Partridge, Dave Hooton, Eric Brosius, Andy Lewis, Michael Lowrey, and Kevin Wilson will take up to 2 more.

Bolognese. Machiavelli. Gunboat. This game will start after the next Machiavelli game ends. Have 5, will take up to 3 more.

Boston Terrier. New World. This will use the exploration variant, plus the Non-Player Nations variant in the event I get less than 6 players. Have Andy York, Andy Lewis, Dave Partridge, Bob Robles, and Dave Hood, will take up to 1 more.

Purebred. Machiavelli. This game will start after the second Machiavelli game ends. Have Ward Narhi, Bob Robles, Pasquale Giovine, Dave Partridge, and Walt O'Hara, will take up to 3 more.

Industrial Waste. Have Andy York and Dave Partridge, will take up to 2 more.

Silverton. Will start after Hunter ends. Have Eric Brosius and Dave Partridge, will take up to 4 more.

Kremlin. Will start after Pateel ends. Have Walt O'Hara. Will take up to 5 more.

Seavarers of Catan. Have Chris Geggus and Dave Partridge. Will take up to 4 more.

Outpost. Will start after Basset ends. Will take up to 10.

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