As most of my friends know, we have a ton of board games. (Well, a hard core boardgamer would easily have us beat, but it is huge collection compared to the average family.)

Scott Hanselman recently made a post that mentioned games and followed it up with a podcast on the subject. This inspired me to finish moving my games in the house around and to catalog them while I did so.

I entered the list into the BoardGameGeek web site and added a link on left to this site. It turns out we have over 125 games. I ended up listing a few items on the geek (short for BoardGameGeek) that I don't consider games. Stuff like expansions, even if they were free expansions and fit in the box with the original game get their own listings. Maybe I was just hoping to keep my total number down has it was getting to be a very high number that made me not want to list an extra 5 games as its own game. However, I didn't list all of Betsy's games either. (Betsy is my 4 year old game maniac). Our copy of Candyland is now on the verge of destroyed along with Chutes and Ladders so I didn't list them.

The picture is of the upstairs/storage bookshelf. It holds 100+ of the games. We keep the top shelf of our living room bookshelf with our most played games (or ones we want to play soon.)

Maybe I'm a bit slow, but it took me a little while to learn the trick of charging your iPod via my USB port and listen to it at the same time. I usually don't need to charge it and listen at the same time and rarely do, but sometimes I forget to charge it up and find myself at work with an almost dead iPod.

Here are the steps that work for me:

1. Connect iPod to the PC.
2. Eject from iTunes (if you have iTunes installed)
3. Open Windows Explorer find your removable drive (iPod).
4. Right click the iPod drive and click Eject.
5. Wait a moment and the iPod menu should appear on your iPod.