Jorge, Author at Jorge Lopez

All aboard the Mexican Train (Review)

By Jorge | October 12, 2018 | Comments 0 Comment

Intro

Aside from the awesomeness that was Domino Rally during my childhood, I’ve never been into a traditional dominoes game and that may be partially due to the fact that I watched older men play the game when I was a kid, especially in the city I call home where it’s extremely common. Imagine my surprise when I discovered Mexican Train, a variation of dominoes that involves locomotives, engines and just a smidgen of strategy which makes the otherwise blasé game of dominoes quite entertaining.

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We Don’t Know Yet What the Future Brings

By Jorge | October 12, 2018 | Comments 0 Comment

Hello, everyone! Yes, it’s been a few years since I last published any type of updates here on my website. I am alive and well but, as is the case with anyone, my life has changed considerably since the last post in 2012.

For starters, a few major changes have gone down in my personal life. Perhaps most notably, I am now legally bound to another human being, which is something I never saw myself ever doing. Married life has its charms.

As for my career, I now work for a marketing and advertising company thanks to a friend and former co-worker who offered me a job shortly after my former employer and I amicably parted ways after nearly ten years together. The scope of my work now extends beyond real estate, so it’s been nice learning about other industries.

I still retain a passion for board and card games but alas, life’s circumstances don’t allow me the time and resources to play them as much as I would like to, or used to. Coincidentally, when I came back to freshen things up in here, I discovered another review I wrote years ago that I never got around to finishing. I’ll be publishing that review shortly, even if it is wildly out of date.

I recently registered two domain names for a pair of related projects I’m hoping to get mostly off of the ground some time before 2018 is over. I haven’t built a website in years ever since my career began to transition towards web content marketing so I’m trying to get a grasp on today’s modern CMS solutions and which one(s) works best for what I would like to accomplish. If that happens to be WordPress, I will attempt to cross that rickety bridge.

I make no guarantees that I will once again return to a semi-regular posting schedule so for now, let’s just call this a tentative new beginning.

The Many Flavors of Farkle

By Jorge | March 16, 2014 | Comments 3 comments

Intro

Farkle might be the most recognizable of the few games I’ve covered since it’s been around for a little over two decades per Wikipedia, yet I was entirely unaware of the existence of this dice game involving luck and risk until this year when I began researching and collecting board and card games. Unlike a typical board game, there are many variations on the basic game of Farkle which can be stripped down to its basic no frills dice version or perhaps something like Spicy Farkel and Farkle Flip, the card game. I’m going to cover the ones that I’ve played and highlight the various sets available so hopefully you can decide which version works best or if perhaps you’d like to add a bit of every flavor.

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