Year: 2026

Snow and Rain in Tahoe

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After far too many dry warm weeks, we finally got a big snow storm across the Sierra in mid-February and Darlene and I dashed up to Tahoe with the cats just ahead of it to enjoy the snow for a couple of weeks.  Resi and Aiden joined us for the first week and we got a couple of days in at Northstar before and after the big dump.  Later in the week, I met up with Troy and Aiden at Homewood for three days as more snow piled up.  Unfortunately, Darlene wasn’t feeling well and missed out on the fresh powder.

We then joined Jon, Stan, Bill, Jim and Lewis for our annual ski week, getting a day in at Palisades before the rain came in for a couple of days to wreck all that fresh powder.  So we had a couple of board game days together before venturing back out at NorthStar and Palisades Alpine.  Over the first weekend in March, Jon and Roland joined us for more gaming and we got in another day at Alpine before eventually packing up and heading home.

A short video montage of our skiing over a couple of weeks.

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Home Arcade

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Setting up a home video arcade…

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My brother’s response when I sent him this recording was fun:

Is that YOUR LIVING ROOM??!!!

Followed soon after by:

Oh! Faker! I was still watching this when I sent the first message.
I thought you’d bought a full cabinet game!
Pretty cool though. Although ExciteBike would be even better

If you don’t know already, this is Retrocade, as seen with the Vision Pro.  (It’s also available on iOS and iPadOS but then you don’t get a full size game cabinet in your living room!)  The cabinets are really the best part – they’re so well crafted and detailed. Note the simulated reflections from both the game graphics and from the windows and lights in my house reflecting on the cabinets and the “glass” screens.

Ah, but they need to allow placing more than one cabinet at a time and they need to let you leave them in place in your house while you use other apps, like how the VisionOS spatial widgets work.

Meanwhile… what do you do if a portal opens up to Half Life’s City 17 in your house? 🤓

And There Was Much Gaming

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Another year of board gaming topped off with a gathering for New Year’s Day:

This gallery is from February 2025 through New Year’s Day of 2026 and includes SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Gentes, On the Underground: London/Berlin, Age of Rail: South Africa, Cloud Age, Arcs, Hollywood: 1947, Galactic Cruise, Bomb Busters, Gutenberg, Nucleum, Green Team Wins, Shackleton Base, Rings & Things, Dead by Daylight, Thunder Road: Vendetta, Heat: Pedal to the Metal, Andromeda’s Edge, Polynesia, Steam Power, Revive, Ecos, Merchant of Venus, Endeavor: Deep Sea, Wildcatters, Photosynthesis, Smartphone, Inc., Cosmic Encounter, Clank! Catacombs, Artemis Odyssey, Panamax, Flip Toons, Hot Streak, 1930 – The Golden Age of Airlines, Dead Reckoning, First Flight, Skate Summer, Rocketmen, The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship, Speakeasy, Slide 5, FaeKin, Magical Athlete, Cosmic Encounter, Deck Chairs on the Titanic, Pandemic: Iberia

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