Evil Cats Destroy Lives In Europe

Author: Andrew

  • Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #4

    Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #4

    December 29th, 2015 (FB Post Date): Thunderball Our least favorite so far. It’s worth mentioning that even without martinis, it was often hard to follow the plot. Gadgets: Lots of underwater stuff, bad guys had cool mini subs. A completely unneeded jetpack?Bad Guy: Spectre, with a plan being run by #2. Meh.Martinis: None imbibed.Bond Girl:…

  • Celebrating With An Egg

    Celebrating With An Egg

    As you may have guessed by our lack of blog posts, our summer has been a bit hectic. We’ll be doing a few catch up posts talking about what’s been going on here in Portugal! Don’t worry, all is well (eggcellent even) but it did feel like the last few months disappeared before we were…

  • Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #3

    Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #3

    December 28th, 2015 (FB Post Date): Goldfinger Our favorite so far! Here’s what we thought… Gadgets: Aston Martin. We saw Q’s lab. Sweet.Bad Guy: We both loved that he was in your face from the beginning of the movie. He really didn’t want to just kill off Bond. Odd Job is so great.Martinis: First we…

  • Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #2

    Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #2

    December 28th, 2015 (FB Post Date): From Russia With Love I didn’t like it as much as Dr. No due to the lack of bombast. Gadgets: Multifunction suitcase, quite cool.Bad Guy: Meh. Spectre is cool but #3 and #5 play minimal roles.Martinis: We tried a best guess recipe based on the Bond books (his recipe…

  • A Date To Celebrate 25 Years Of Dating!

    A Date To Celebrate 25 Years Of Dating!

    It was May 4th, 2001 and I was a couple weeks away from moving from Minnesota to Oregon by way of Alaska. I was crashing on the couch of my long time friend (and secret crush) Michelle. She was taking vacation time off work to drive with me to Alaska on a farewell trip. Someday…

  • Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #1

    Facebook Flashback: Bond And Martinis #1

    Way back in 2015 Michelle and I did a series of posts on Facebook in which we watched James Bond movies in chronological order and wrote some silly comments. We also drank martinis and tried to perfect our favorite recipe as the series went on. Fast forward to 2026 and we thought, “Why not revisit…

  • A Geeky Discussion About “Gateway Games”

    A Geeky Discussion About “Gateway Games”

    Our board game club, Board Guimas, has a relatively active user group that talks about all things game related. A couple weeks ago one user commented about which gateway game was the most interesting (in their opinion) of the most popular five. This coincided with some similar discussions I’ve had with Michelle and another friend…

  • Some Old Stuff: Citânia De Briteiros

    Some Old Stuff: Citânia De Briteiros

    My cousin John visited a few weeks ago and in planning his visit he said he was interested in seeing some Roman ruins or a similar attraction. Lucky for him we live less than ten miles from an amazing archaeological site. Citânia de Briteiros is an unearthed “urban” community which actually existed in pre-Roman times…

  • Farming (Game) In Portugal

    Farming (Game) In Portugal

    My grandpa Finazzo was a farmer in Minnesota, he had a farm and a tractor and the whole shebang. Like most farmers he supplemented his income in a variety of ways but his core identity was related to tending to his crops. I imagine sometime around 1979 someone saw the new board game The Farming…

  • I Want To Be The Head Wizard In Charge!

    I Want To Be The Head Wizard In Charge!

    Today I’m going to talk about one of our favorite board games, Argent: The Consortium, in which players battle to win the most votes and become the new chancellor at the magic university where you all work. Don’t run out and buy the game yet, I have a lot to say about Argent and depending…