A couple of weeks ago, Mark in our Vancouver office reached out to me.
I remember one Tech Trek that you mentioned you enjoyed board games.  There are a small group of us in Vancouver who get together for online board games every Thursday evening at 8pm. Would you be interested in joining us? I believe that will be 9pm your time. We normally play for just two hours at the most.
The games are played on Board Game Arena, and we use WebEx to have voice and video while we play. Esri Canada’s IT department has relaxed the rules for using WebEx for personal calls during the pandemic during non-office hours. It’s a surprisingly good experience. I sit downstairs at Tammy’s desk with my work MacBook.
Now I’ve joined in two Thursday nights in a row. The first night we played Puerto Rico and I really had no idea what I was doing. This Thursday we had agreed that we would play the game 7 Wonders so I was able to watch an instructional video on YouTube.
Evidently it paid off, because I squeaked out a win in the second of three games!
My one complaint with the system is that the card/board artwork can be pretty small. I often find myself with my nose a couple inches from the screen trying to interpret the little icons.
But the fact that all of the rules and turns are governed by the system means that the games move really quickly and the scoring is all automatic.
