And you are a board game nerd, too <3 I don't know any other board game nerds in real life so I am out of that 
My group of friends are all board games nerds. We play Settlers of Catan at least once a weekend. We've even made Settlers of Washingcatan, which is an octagon-based map of Washington state that uses the play mechanics of Catan. We put in St. Helens, and it can even errupt and totally fuck with your placement if you settled around it. My one friend who was the lead game designer on Pirates of the Burning Sea is also working on redoing the board game Starfire (we now call it Star Fuego Con Queso), and we're also creating this game called Battle for Seattle.
Tomorrow, I'm getting together with a bunch of guys to play Attack!, Civilization, Axis and Allies before finishing up with some 8-player Halo 2 rocketball.