I can’t believe it’s been a week nearly since my last post.

The work life balance seems out of whack at the moment. Maybe not in hours worked but more the physical and emotional toll.

Sometimes it feels age is catching up with me and despite getting about eight hours sleep. I am still having an afternoon nap.

However since the last post I’ve been on the first of three training courses to become a union health and safety rep. It was a three day course at the unions branch office, with accommodation provided at a local Premier Inn.

Yes breakfast was included. So it would have been rude to not have the full English to start the days off correctly.

I even made a batch of cold brew coffee over night in the hotel room to have during the day on the course.

Yes they had coffee, tea, biscuits etc to help yourself to during the day. But sachets of Nescafé coffee just won’t cut it as the caffeine option.

So I felt forced to make the cold brew to get that fix.

How did I make the cold brew?

Well I had my 1 litre Nalgene bottle, cold brew filter bags, Hario mini mill plus, and some coffee beans in the car (along with a few other bits, like gas stove, dehydrated food).

That first night in the hotel room saw me grinding beans, filling the filter bag, placing it in the Nalgene and pouring in the bottled water purchased from the Tesco next to the Premier Inn.

The next morning I had a litre of cold brew ready to take in with me.

I had been due two back to back days off but I was asked if I’d do some overtime Friday. Which I agreed to.

The bright side of all this is that in seven shifts time I’m on holiday for a week. I’ll talk more about those plans in another post.

Castle Combo arrived, and once some more Mayday premium sleeves also arrived, was sleeved.

Thanks to Jamey Stegmaier and his latest YouTube video (at time of writing) about his favourite mechanic in Splendor: Pokémon I have now ordered a copy.

The thing about this version of the game is it’s not available out side Korea. So to get a copy you have to import a copy or hope a company specialising in imported games has it. I went the former via eBay. The later could have been an option but the company I found was out of stock for it.

This kind of reminds me of the “original” Star Wars Love Letter that sadly was only available in Russia. At the time I did try and get a copy. But as you have probably already guessed I was unsuccessful in those attempts.

Carcassonne Star Wars was a similar thing for the US. Available in the UK and EU. But not licensed for the States.

The joys of franchise licensing.

Back to Splendor. I don’t actually own the original game, despite liking it. I sold on my copy plus it’s play mat once I had the Marvel edition in my collection. I preferred the extra bits that they added to the Marvel version such as the Avengers Assemble tile.

I can see there being room for two copies of the game (possibly).

I’ve been looking everywhere for my copy of Strike! But can I find it? So like previous times in similar situations I’ve ordered a replacement copy. If it does turn up it’ll be handy having two copies.

Right I think that’s enough for this post time to spend the day just chilling before work tomorrow.