Making Room for the Essentials

So you spend 2 years getting rid of 90% of your earthly possessions - discarding the non essentials, so you can make room for a new life, with what is really necessary, loved and cherished.
And apparently what is really necessary for us right now is a new board game.

Thanks to Board Fox Games in Grand Junction, CO for the advice and for letting us see the board size to check if it would fit on our one tiny table. They have a rack of board games to try before you buy, along with coffee and air conditioning. When it is 104F outside, spending the afternoon shuffling cards, rolling dice and arguing about the rules with a frappe would be bliss.

This is Pandemic, Cthulhu version, and it is co-op play, so there are no sore losers or arguments about who is cheating and it has been different every time we play.
2-4 players, battling monsters with far, far too many consonants in their names. If you fancy battling diseases instead then get the original version.