Hi, Maryland!

[bryant]

You have a lot of rain!

Cats made it OK. They are all very dubious about the new place. We have blocked the hole that gave access to the space under the kitchen cabinets.

The travails of living sans furniture are pretty boring so I won't talk about em. Suffice it to say that our new mattress is the best thing ever. The movers arrive early next week. We get Internet on Saturday. Can't wait.

Thanks for all the offers of visits on the way down. We went via Scranton, which has less traffic and more pretty.

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[adamdray.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the best state in the nation. Really. I think so, anyway.

I work up in Sparks (a few miles up York Rd.) and live in Owings Mills (a half hour from Cockeysville). I can tell you where you should go to eat and where the game stores are. ;)

[bryant]

Oh cool. Where /are/ the game stores?

We traversed to Renaissance Games today, which took a while cause we took back roads and got lost but it was pretty. It's a bit of a trek but seemed like a nice enough store. I do kind of miss Pandemonium's indie games shelf.

We dropped by Legends Comics and Games on the way back, since we were sensible and took 695. It was unimpressive.

[adamdray.livejournal.com]

Alternate Worlds is in Cockeysville. It's in the back of the big plaza a little north of Padonia Road on the east side of York. They are mostly a comics shop but have a gaming rack. No gaming tables or anything impressive, but it's close to you.

Daniel Levine (dikaiosunh) knows of a decent store in Towson. Maybe that's Renaissance Games? They sponsor gaming nights and stuff. They might have some indie games but I don't know for sure.

[bryant]

Alternate Worlds is literally a quarter of a mile from us, which is pretty cool. I'm likely to buy my D&D stuff there.

If there's another store in Towson that'd be awesome; possibly also I just caught Legends on a bad day. They do have tables and such in the back.

[adamdray.livejournal.com]

Alternate Worlds is in the Yorktown Plaza one block north of you, actually.

Parsa Kabob in that plaza is good eats (Iraqi, I think). Right next to the game store.

On Cranbrook Road, near the plaza, is a pretty good Indian restaurant.

At the intersection of Cranbrook and York, on the west side, there's The Corner Stable. Decent ribs there, but it's a bit of a dive, decor-wise.

Go north on York till you hit Shawan and turn left. You'll hit the Wegman's plaza. If you're not familiar with Wegman's, you should become so.

Also in that plaza are some clusters of "boulevard"-style shops and "chain" restaurants. I highly recommend California Pizza Kitchen, which is in the back of the plaza, up on the hill. Noodles & Co. is cheap and yummy. There's a bookstore there, too, and it has a coffee shop in it with comfy chairs. Movie theater behind the plaza.

[bryant]

We found the Indian place -- not bad at all. Good Iraqi is awesome, check. Wegman's, check -- we weren't sure which grocery store we wanted.

I'm working pretty much across the street from the plaza, in fact.