So I had a dream the other day. I dreamed that I owned a business. It was a great dream. It began with me starting up my own board game company. I invented some board and card games that started to become popular in Fresno and the Central Valley. Then I held gaming conventions for all my fellow gamers to come together and enjoy some time playing games. Then I opened my own store with Tia, which was called 'BTW' (which could stand for By The Way, By The Weemes, or Ben and Tia Weemes).
It was a game store, but more for casual gamers than for hardcore gamers. I didn't sell D&D or Magic: The Gathering, I didn't have miniatures or Warhammer 40k tournaments, it was all board and card games for the much more average gaming groups. It boasted games like Cranium, Smart Ass, Dixit, Pit, Settlers of Catan, Quarriors, and Bohnanza. Still keeping it averagely nerdy without living in my mom's basement. There was also a coffee shop area for relaxing, still with board game tables if you wanted to play and we also sold beer and wine for the older crowd. Sometimes live bands would come and play at our venue, we would take out some of the tables and make room for them. Mostly jazz, blues, soft rock, acoustic, hipster, and music like that.
Mostly it was board gaming, drinking tea/coffee, relaxing, reading books, and grooving to some tunes. There were walls of books that you could read while you were there, and then buy if you wanted to keep reading them. Overall it had a very chill vibe with an undercurrent of nerdy-ness. Tia could have book club there on certain nights, learn a new craft night, open mic night, dancing nights, or really any number of fun events if we wanted to.
It was a long dream, it made me extremely happy, and I would love to actually make this a reality someday. Do you have hopes and dreams that you think are unattainable? Are they impossible or just difficult?
Dream on.
It was a game store, but more for casual gamers than for hardcore gamers. I didn't sell D&D or Magic: The Gathering, I didn't have miniatures or Warhammer 40k tournaments, it was all board and card games for the much more average gaming groups. It boasted games like Cranium, Smart Ass, Dixit, Pit, Settlers of Catan, Quarriors, and Bohnanza. Still keeping it averagely nerdy without living in my mom's basement. There was also a coffee shop area for relaxing, still with board game tables if you wanted to play and we also sold beer and wine for the older crowd. Sometimes live bands would come and play at our venue, we would take out some of the tables and make room for them. Mostly jazz, blues, soft rock, acoustic, hipster, and music like that.
Mostly it was board gaming, drinking tea/coffee, relaxing, reading books, and grooving to some tunes. There were walls of books that you could read while you were there, and then buy if you wanted to keep reading them. Overall it had a very chill vibe with an undercurrent of nerdy-ness. Tia could have book club there on certain nights, learn a new craft night, open mic night, dancing nights, or really any number of fun events if we wanted to.
It was a long dream, it made me extremely happy, and I would love to actually make this a reality someday. Do you have hopes and dreams that you think are unattainable? Are they impossible or just difficult?
Dream on.