Even more people came to check out GameTime Afterhours tonight at the Randolph Street Argo Tea.  Renea, Herb, Dick and I played a few rounds of gin to warm up - get it, rounds of gin to warm up.  As more guests arrived, we split into a couple games - one game of Scrabble and one big game of Settlers of Catan.  Greg, a new arrival introduced to GameTime Afterhours by Renea, turned out to be a huge Settlers fan.  He helped bring Renea up to speed for her first game of Settlers ever and she almost came out victorious, just short by one point when the dust settled.

It's such a great experience to get together and play games with friends and to make new friends over games.  Greg even had an epiphany of an economic persuasion when he determined that, all other things being equal, it was almost always better to upgrade a settlement to a city than to buy a development card.  Like The Richest Man in Babylon, the idea of putting your valuable resources to use to earn more resources was not lost on the man of many voices.