Another New Years In The Party Basement...

 Another New Years Eve has come and gone...the same can be said for New Years Day. And, as per our usual since we finished the basement, our family spent it downstairs, around our bumper pool/gaming table, drinking Martinelli's Gold Label Sparkling Apple Juice (and the Cranberry/Apple combo...), along with Christmas treats...

Yes, we know how to party.

Of course, "party" is subjective. Like beauty, it's in the eye of the beholder. 

Years ago, I would see ads for a big New Years Eve celebration in downtown Salt Lake City. This must have been decades ago because I believe they've kept up the tradition for years. All I could think about when I saw those ads was, "Why in the world would anyone want to spend New Years Eve outside in a city located in the Rocky Mountains?"

Obviously, I've never attended such a celebration.

I never thought about how all those people at Times Square in New York City waiting for the ball to drop willingly chose to attend. They were outside in a northern latitude city. I never questioned their sanity. Then again, when you have hundreds of thousands of people jammed into a small space, maybe they generate enough heat to make the decision to celebrate logical.

No, I'm boring. I stay inside at New Years Eve. The last time I think I celebrated outside was years ago when I lived in Denmark. I ventured out on New Years Eve and watched happy Danes celebrate the arrival of 1986. I also saw a drunk man almost get his head blown off as he looked inside a tube of a huge firework to see if it would blow.

Yes, it blew.

No, he was not injured...well, maybe his hearing.

I had a blast this past New Years Eve. God willing, we'll gather again in the party basement on New Years Eve and pull out another board game--maybe next year we'll play Hallmark Monopoly. We haven't played that in a while.

If You Like Board Games...Check Out Gangrene Games!

I have amazingly talented friends. It's that simple. And one of those friends, Craig Nybo, has created a line of board games.

And they're frickin' awesome!

They're all licensed under the Gangrene Games label. You can find out more about them at their website: HERE. Right now, there are three games for you to enjoy, Trash War, Hoagie, and Shoot Your Friends.

Shoot Your Friends 

From the website: Shoot Your Friends is a lightning-fast game that pits opponents across from each other with nothing but a toy gun and a deck of cards between them. Be the first to create lethal combinations of cards on the table to become either the shooter or the shootee. To play Shoot Your Friends, you must have fast reflexes, quick thinking, and an itchy trigger finger.

Shoot Your Friends comes with a deck of cards and an electronic toy gun — complete with laser site and silencer — that makes really cool sounds, everything you need to blast your friends into oblivion.

With easy-to-understand rules, you can go from box to party-time in minutes with Shoot Your Friends, a Gangrene Game.

Trash War

From the website: What goes on in the junkyards when nobody is around? After the metal crushers shut down and the land movers roll back into their hangars, after the underpaid employees clock out and call it a night, that's when the knights arrive, dressed in shimmering armor, impassioned with chivalry and a taste for war. It is in the junkyards where these warriors find the tools for battle. And in the landfills, legends are born.

Dressed in shimmering armor and armed with catapults, makeshift weapons, and plenty of trash artillery, Trash War, a card game of medieval junk-yard combat, pits players against each other in a land-fill battle arena. This fast-paced game moves away from traditional turn-based play. Players follow the action, forming alliances and gutting out grudge matches while attempting to destroy each other's rampart walls.

Hoagie

From the website: It takes an artist to build the perfect sandwich. Can you be the first to collect and stack fresh ingredients into a hoagie masterpiece before the Oogies, a gang of pesky, ingredient spoiling creatures, destroy your fixings?

Hoagie matches players in a goofy kitchen adventure to create the perfect sandwich while spoiling other players' ingredients with the Oogies.

Hoagie is great for the whole family, simple to learn, fun to play.

And, there's a way to help fun their newest game, 

Chops, The Rock and Roll Board Game!

If your family is into games, check out Gangrene Games! It's awesome in a box!