Shrine to the God of Games

I really like the idea of dedicating myself to the God of Games. It seems more worthy than just playing (or writing) for my own satisfaction or somewhat limited glory. A couple of days ago I thought I would like to find a dragon to serve as an idol for the God of Games. I looked for a shop that would sell one on a recent walk down to Nanshijiao which is a southern district and has a lot of SE Asian neighborhoods. But I didn't see anything. Well, today I was feeling pretty energetic and kind of wanted to do something about it so I went with Ellie over to this street on the way to Longshan Temple. It has some shops that sell the kinds of things I have in mind and they seem to be a bit less expensive than some of the fancier shops I have seen around town. So we went over there and in the first shop we found exactly what I was looking for. It is a brass dragon. It's a little on the small side but the others were pretty expensive and it suits the shrine.

So after we came home from that excursion I sat down with some coffee to think a bit. Basically I have this corner of my room that for a long, long time, basically the whole 13 years we have lived here has been kind of a disaster area. It was basically a big pile with some shelves where I couldn't even get to the bottom shelves and the whole area just collected dust and dog hair. So basically I had been thinking recently about doing something about it and today the stars aligned and I got down to business. I pulled everything out of that corner and separated it by whether I want to get rid of it or if I want to keep it. So I did that, then I cleaned up all the dust and dog hair. I had to get rid of a bunch of stuff but most of it was old papers that I haven't looked at in the 13 years we have lived here. Then I went through the process of putting stuff back. Mostly I moved the books to some other shelves so I could put my gaming stuff in there. Then after that I changed the lightbulb above the shrine which has been burned out for like 10 years or something.

 Here is the result:

It has stuff from a lot of the games I have been interested in or played throughout the years, from baseball, to go to chess, to magic, to video games. It even has some of my old golf score cards from when I was on a golf kick.

The God of Games looks a bit small but he is the brass dragon on top of the flour box near the top of the photo. The flour box is a bit weird but it has all my loose magic cards in it. I wanted the God of Games elevated and on his own little platform so I did it this way. I might try to switch that out at some point for a more appropriate box.

The black dish to the left of the photo of Emmanuel Lasker is the incense holder that Ellie got me for my birthday. The piece of wood sticking up from it is a sacred South American wood that she got me that is for purifying. So I burnt that after I had the shrine all set up.

All in all I am very happy with how I spent my Sunday.