week winding down; coffee; lunch; more DVDs; dominoes

[fflo]

Had coffee with elmur_fudd yesterday---good hangin'. Just came back from lunch with coworker. had a beer! oooh!

This weekend to look forward to: more library DVDs, cleaning, maybe Discount Tire, dominoes. Anything else? I forget.

Comments

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I was a building domino person as a kid and exclusively for many years---love the knock 'em down thing. I wish I'd thought of the mousetrap-cum-ping-pong-ball, though! You showed signs of genius early on, hunh, Pete.

I love the combination of strategies that bones (scored in multiples of 5s) calls for. There's a "spinner"---the first double played---off of which play can happen in 4 directions, but the vertical ones only become "active" for scoring once a bone is added to one side or the other there. One wants not only to score often & as much as possible, but also to "go out" first---not having to draw bones from the boneyard & load up your hand---cuz that not only scores more points (potentially) but (moreover) give one dominion over what bone gets played first in the next hand.

I was taught by a guy who worked with me at Balto City Comm College. He was great. Holly would never let me use all of his pseudo-psychological tactics of bravado and such, but she too liked the game, as do many of my favorite folk. Want to play some time? I'm a gentle teacher (at first). (Once you learn, the kid gloves come off!)

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I can't take original credit for the mousetrap and ping-pong ball. I got that from my big brother, who in turn got the idea of a ping-pong bll/mousetrap chain reaction from Disney's "Our Friend the Atom."

But yeah, sure it sounds fun to try a game of dominoes sometime. Those games always have such wierd jargon--spinners and bones and boneyards (I do remember "boneyard," but I never heard the pieces called bones).

The only game I've actually played recently has been Scrabble.