Saw the exact same thing at my local shop last month. Two guys were arguing that a game with a red cube meant 30 minutes and blue meant an hour, and the store owner just let them go at it for like ten minutes before telling them it's the age rating. The look on their faces was priceless. One of them had been using that system to plan his whole game night for years.

Man, I feel your pain on those beech handles cracking in the cold. Denver winters are brutal on wood, and store bought handles just aren't made to take a real beating. Making your own from ash was a smart move, that stuff is tough as nails.

A friend of mine bought a whole sticker set and then never opened it because she felt bad messing up the pretty pages. Once she switched to a cheap notebook she actually started writing daily, weird how that works.