Tomorrow is Mother's Day. As part of the festvities I'm hoping to see my sister. Maybe we can finally play SpaceWarp44 or at least Carcassonne.

At the library today I got a couple of Jack the Ripper books, JtR: A to Z and JtR: the Uncensored Facts. The virtual card catalog also indicated that the Champaign Public Library had a copy of the JtR Companion.

I'm finally playing some games over at Chess Variant's Game Courier. The interface is a little crude compared to ItsYourTurn but the editor is easy enough even a non-coder like me can put together a playset for a variant. Right now I'm playing two games that were entered into the 44 squares contest: Hole Chess and Oblong Chess 44, which I'm playing with the inventor of the game. I especially like Oblong Chess 44 as it is a variant on a historic chess predecessor.