ryanabrams

 I am selling my entire board game collection as a whole. It consists of 271 games worth $6000 to $7000. I am asking $4000, and have posted a page about it that includes a detailed list of games.

garagesale.ryanabrams.net/gamecollection.html

Please pass on word to anyone you know who may be interested.

Thanks.

I've spent the past two days categorizing and researching my board game collection, as the first step in finally divesting myself of my largest remaining "collection." In doing so, I've been attempting to decide on my final "to keep" list, while calculating a fair value for the collection.

Here is a final list of games I intend to keep, along with explanations as to why they made the cut. I have also included 4 "maybes" which will survive the initial cut, but may be culled in the future. This will serve to both help finalize my decision making process, but also perhaps as insight in games to consider for those of you looking for a new game or two. I will likely discuss alternatives to a given selection that I have chosen to sell, and why. I am interested in additional observations or thoughts from those of you informed about board games.

Before I begin, this post should also serve as advanced notice that I intend to sell off the entire remainder of my game collection, which is approximately 280 games worth (at least) $6200. I will be selling it at a significant discount and am hoping to find a buyer for the full collection somewhere in the DFW area, either via BGG or Craig's List. I will, of course, ship it if the purchaser pays for the shipping and packaging costs. I'll post more about that later. For now, on with the keepers!

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Hello LiveJournal people. It's been so long since I've posted that I really have no idea how to go about getting caught up. Here's a quick, direct attempt at it.

First off, and most importantly to me, I have a girlfriend. I'm officially and happily dating Beth Garvey. I'm completely blown away by her. Most of you here know this already, but I figured things like this aren't officially official until they are on LJ, so there ya go. Just be glad I avoided the Facebook profile change.

The idea of having a girlfriend was sort of creeping around in my brain for the past month or two, but I have been broken for so long that I was having a hard time telling if I was healthy enough to make that sort of commitment. A couple weeks back, Beth tricked the every loving hell out of me and emotionally knocked me on my ass. I've been told the story is cute, and I may share it here one day, but for now let me just say that it felt amazing. I stopped questioning if I was still broken. In fact, I felt so healthy that the question instantly changed from if I could commit to if I could afford not to. The idea of her not being my girlfriend seemed preposterous. I don't know what else to say about it right now other than that I am happy.

Other things going on in my life:

- Burning Flipside was a bit over a week ago. It was an absolutely amazing weekend in my life, and the weeks leading up to it were full of fun prep work. But I'm glad it's past - I need to refocus. There is a part of me that will always be a dirty hippie in a tent, and I like letting him out to play now and then, but I have things I want to /do/. Unfortunately, this may have been my only 2009 burn, because I think I'm going to pass on Burning Man until next year, and I suspect I have a conflict for Myschievia. Maybe I can find some other regional instead.
- I attended a funeral.
- I re-gained and lost some friends. I wish them the best, but doubt I'll see much of them in the future.
- I'm still unemployed, but I've been distracted by events the past few weeks, and simply not pushing as hard as I should. That's changing.

Anyway, that's the core of it. It's nice to see you again LJ. Hope you're doing well. :D