christmas introduced a lot of new stuff to the house, which means taking care of buying a few extras to sort things out and attending to end-of-year events leading up to new year's.

in particular, i've been thinking about "variable powers" in games. board games are what brought it to mind, but the fact that i attempted to build a similar game inside of a sandbox game a long time has been replaying itself in my head. i don't think i'd immediately pursue anything along this thread, but it's definitely a nice relaxing idea to spin a design off of between other things.