Whuf. There’s a whole bunch of stuff I want to write now, but I’m too tired. My father had bypass surgery today, and I was up at 4:30 AM to accompany my parents to the hospital. The surgery went well, and he’s doing about as well as you’d expect some to be doing who’s had that kind of surgery ( Read more... )

Saturday started off with a massive kitchen-scrubbing session. Our counters and cabinets now look like maybe we aren’t cavemen.

ladymondegreen, akawil, and I met bugsybanana for vegetarian dim sum in Chinatown, a meal consisting chiefly of wheat gluten. Tasty wheat gluten, but still. Then we saw Napoleon Dynamite, a weird, charming movie about nerds, the assholes who torment ( Read more... )

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bugsybanana and I missed the train we’d planned to take, so we were an hour late for Thanksgiving at my sister’s place in Mt Kisco, but it’s not like we were the last to get there. The public phones in Grand Central will call anyplace in NY state for 25¢, but cut off without warning after 30 seconds, not even giving you a chance to stick in more quarters. ( Read more... )

Friday: Didn’t play anything new at GC. Ido, Doge, Fluxx. Didn’t get in on either of the two simultaneous games of Puerto Rico. Ido plays much better with four than with two, and I probably would have done better if I’d bothered to ask what the victory condition was sometime earlier than two turns before someone else reached it. Doge goes much ( Read more... )

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