# game fair (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover game fair. Page: Feed: --- ## [Beth Shalom one year in](https://cellio.org/blog/2026/beth-shalom-one-year) _2026-08-20 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ Last August I left my previous synagogue, which had just voted to merge with another and move out of the neighborhood, and joined Beth Shalom, the… ## [Origins](https://cellio.org/blog/2026/origins) _2026-06-25 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ Last week was the Origins game con. The folks running it seemed pretty disorganized this year and I was tempted to bail after the train wreck of… ## [Outstanding customer service](https://cellio.org/blog/2026/heroforge) _2026-05-29 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ A couple months ago, one of the other players in the D&D campaign we play in ordered a custom 3D-printed miniature for his character. The campaign… ## [Tikkun leil Shavuot](https://cellio.org/blog/2026/tikkun) _2026-05-25 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ Shavuot is the holiday about the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai (matan torah). There is a tradition of late-night study called tikkun leil… ## [Washington Oaks Gardens](https://cellio.org/blog/2026/wash-oaks-gardens) _2026-04-29 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ On our last day in St. Augustine we visited Washington Oaks Gardens State Park. It was a great way to relax and take in nature's beauty before… ## [Peacocks and other creatures](https://cellio.org/blog/2026/fountain-of-youth) _2026-04-26 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ Last week we were in St. Augustine and visited the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park. We were hesitant, suspecting hype and fluff, but I was… ## [Goodbye MinoanMiss](https://cellio.org/blog/2026/ny) _2026-03-15 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ I've known Ny (MinoanMiss on Dreamwidth, previously Browngirl on Livejournal) online for decades, and got to meet her in person twice. She turned… ## [Laptop dinosaur](https://cellio.org/blog/2026/blackbook) _2026-02-25 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ My father had an ancient Macbook -- not sure what he used it for, since he had not one but two newer iMacs as well as a couple tablets, but my mother… ## [Talmudic dilemma on the way to talmud study](https://cellio.org/blog/2026/pits) _2026-02-23 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ Today while driving to meet someone for talmud study, I came to some road construction. The road was reduced to one lane, with flaggers \[1\] at each… ## [Solar, day 2](https://cellio.org/blog/2026/new-solar) _2026-02-05 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ Last year we replaced our roof, which unlocked solar panels. (We didn't want to put in panels and then have to lift them to replace the roof. And it… ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/l52WBoLKRvzB) _2026-02-05 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [Congress: don't chicken out again](https://cellio.org/blog/2026/daco) _2026-01-28 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ Constrained by the limits of the web form, this is what I sent Senator Fetterman on Sunday: Senator, In October, you joined Republicans to end a… ## [Neighbors](https://cellio.org/blog/2026/neighbors) _2026-01-26 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ We got a bunch of snow on Sunday and paid someone to clear the sidewalks, but as expected, there was a lot more snow overnight. This morning I… ## [Frick exhibit of Scandinavian art](https://cellio.org/blog/2026/frick-scandinavia) _2026-01-07 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ This afternoon we saw a traveling exhibit at the Frick Art Museum, The Scandinavian Home. It's only there for a few more days; we kept meaning to go… ## [iPhone, day 3](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/iphone) _2025-12-22 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ In my last post I talked about the sudden death of my Android phone (again) and my pursuit of an iPhone, which was stymied not by Apple but by… ## [Gremlins](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/gremlins) _2025-12-18 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ Today while I was using my phone (Pixel) in a perfectly ordinary way, the screen went black and soon after the phone stopped responding at all. I… ## [Signal boost: US health insurance, time-sensitive](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/health-insurance) _2025-12-12 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ If you are in the US, don't have employer-provided health insurance (hello layoffs, among others), and are thus buying your insurance on healthcare.g… ## [N things make a post](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/n-things-nov) _2025-11-20 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ I tried a new-to-me CSA this year, Who Cooks For You Farm. The summer share (which we got biweekly) was great, so I signed up for fall (weekly) which… ## [Avram before Lech L'cha](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/avram) _2025-11-03 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ At the shabbaton I led a text-study session that I called "Avram before Lech L'cha" (which was the week's portion). It was designed to be… ## [Final (?) Sinai shabbaton](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/shabbaton) _2025-11-02 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ My now-former synagogue has an occasional shabbaton (Shabbat retreat), nominally once a year but sometimes the gaps are longer. They had one this… ## [Yom Kippur](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/yom-kippur) _2025-10-03 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ Yes. More like this, please. Today is busy, building the sukkah and preparing for Shabbat, so brief notes will have to suffice for now. I had no… ## [Play Both Sides Of The Lie (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/G9OKfNjizBXD) _2025-10-03 · **Sponsored**_ Two operatives, one manufactured war — uncover the Complete Truth after both campaigns. ## [Rosh Hashana at my new synagogue](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/rosh-hashana) _2025-09-25 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ I joined Beth Shalom in August. I'm still time-sharing Shabbat between there and my minyan, though that's winding down. (Sorry, minyan, I love my… ## [Strange credit-card pitch](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/credit-cards) _2025-09-09 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ I've had my Visa card for a very long time (decades). I've been happy with the provider, and the few times I needed the weight of Visa behind a… ## [September, still](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/sdate) _2025-09-09 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ The other day, I saw something cute and reposted it on Mastodon: Overheard, and for Internet old-timers: "Today is the 11,691st day of September… ## [The tomato that conquered Pittsburgh](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/sungold-conquest) _2025-08-08 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ This year I got three (different) tomato seedlings, all container-friendly, along with some peppers and other things. Having failed to do proper… ## [Desk experiments](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/standing-desk) _2025-07-29 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ Dani and I both concluded, at about the same time, that our office chairs were past their use-by dates. We both also want to test a chair, not just… ## [Inherited iPad](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/ipad) _2025-07-27 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ My mother has never learned to use computers, aside from a smartphone that she uses for calls and texting with the grandkids. After my father died… ## [Neat sky!](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/neat-sky) _2025-07-08 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ Last night I looked out the window a few minutes after nominal sunset and saw an unusual and impressive color in the sky. Naturally, I ran outside to… ## [Origins: other stuff](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/origins-misc) _2025-06-24 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ We went to Origins Game Fair last week. My previous post covered the games we played; this post is about everything else. The convention was,… ## [Origins: games played](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/origins-games) _2025-06-22 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ We got home from Origins Game Fair today. As usual, we focused on games we don't already know, which means we expect some winners and some losers.… ## [Synagogue alternatives](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/reform-alts) _2025-06-16 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ My synagogue is being acquired \[1\] and this was the final nudge to find an alternative. This past Shabbat they cancelled our services in favor of the… ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3NqFuRW5ixcH) _2025-06-16 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [Goliath usually wins](https://cellio.org/blog/2025/goliath) _2025-06-09 · Monica Cellio · Monica_ About a year and a half ago, the president of my synagogue started a project to merge ours with another synagogue. We were supposed to be exploring…