It seems like spring cleaning has come early this year, as we're back in Madison with the semester yet to begin, Laura and I are reorganizing our apartment. We've gone through our bookshelves, sorting them by topic, placing a number of them we never read in the basement, and cleared out a few shelves to make room for our games. We can finally see all the options of what to play, much more important right now than old political science and philosophy textbooks.

It's also given me reason to reflect on the games from the last year. I keep track of what we play when over at boardgamegeek.com (more diligently since July, and before that based on records kept here in the blog), and it's cool to see what we've played the most as well as the breadth of games we've played. Board Game Geek is quite the resource, and along with Board Game Designer's Forum make up a good part of where I've learned about games. Missing from that list are a number of the two-player games that Laura and I play together and I didn't blog about, as well as the numerous playtests of my prototypes (I should find a way to record those more easily). It's been a good year, 134 games played, with Carcassonne topping the list, narrowly beating out Attika. Having a regular game night, as well as playing at Pegasus, has really made a difference. I'm glad we're playing many of the games in our collection, and can't wait to see what the new year will bring.

One last thing we've been cleaning up is the blog. There's still a few invisible entries, but we're making a good effort this year to update it when things happen, instead of putting in a month of entries at a time. It's hard to keep up with what we do, but it's so valuable to be able to look back over the last year and a half and see what we've been doing, since we use it as more of a virtual scrapbook. So, take some time to check out the happenings for the last few months in the archives for October, November and December. Enjoy!