Well, yesterday I turned 30. It was a great weekend! My wife got me the board game Maharaja, which is quite intense and very fun, and also the Traders & Builders expansion for Carcassonne. My brother got me Katamari Damacy for the PS2 — this game is fantastic, and it haunts me when I close my eyes.

Uh what else… I updated Ableton Live to version 5, and had a new tattoo finished.

I spent most of my birthday money at funagain.com, buying 3 more board games: Torres, Samurai and Lost Cities. I also grabbed Autechre: Untilted and Jamie Lidell: Multiply with an Amazon.com gift certificate.

Lastly, we had an excellent sushi dinner with some good friends from church. They gave me the Barnes&Noble gift card that is now burning its way through my wallet, searing my butt cheek.