Welcome to Dice Tower Musings, an audio blog about board games from the mind of Tom Vassal.

Tom is the husband of the beautiful Laura Vassal, a father of five girls, a missionary pastor in South Korea, and a middle school math teacher.

Tom is also a passionate gamer and manages to infuse gaming into many aspects of his life.

Join us now for some of aspects of his life.

Join us now for some of his and his family and friends thoughts on games.

Welcome to Dice Tower Musings number two.

I've gotten a pretty good reaction on the first one and I'm glad you're all back to listen to my life.

Now, sometimes these things go in spurts, in fact, in this one I went through, there's like three or four days where I've recorded quite a bit and then since I've recorded there's been like a week in which I haven't talked much

But I don't want to waste too much time giving this introduction

There's some maybe some interesting things in this episode, but at the very end when I'm done I'll be interviewing

One of the people in charge of the Mentza Awards and Sam and I talked about the Amensa Awards and I was kind of curious about it.

And I'll say that this conversation was a bit enlightening and he almost talked me into joining

Mensa.

No, I'm not a brilliant person, but apparently I meet the qualifications from my SAT scores and my GRE scores that I took.

I'm 1 out of 50. My wife was very, very unimpressed.

Well, with that being said, let's get into today's show.

Well, what do you know? I went online to check something out about a board game and lo and behold,

boardgame geek.com is down.

Well that's a pretty big deal, I guess, you know.

And it goes down a lot, but it's now been down for 24 hours, basically,

which is an pretty impressive feat.

So, it brings back to course the question, should everything be on one site like that and you know what everything really isn't on one site but there isn't another site that has as good of a database.

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