Presumably there's a sport that covers the middle. You should get onto finding it.

Curling, perhaps?

Timelies. Grey, humid day here, but I'm not going to complain given the situation in NOLA and surrounding areas. Much -ma to everyone affected.

I had the same envision as Sue.

I had a dream about Penny and Ringan in deb's next book. The house Ringan was working on included pieces of wood from the standard of the Roman Legion that had been stationed there back in the day. Penny's life was being haunted by the ghost of the standard bearer - he had sold the standard, and thus doomed his legion to defeat (Roman soldiers believed that it was bad luck to lose the eagle). Somehow, when Penny found the eagle, it caused the wood pieces to burst into flames, so miles away Ringan and his restoration team were watching the building supports spontaneously combust.

Anyway.

I like the idea of twin tracks to victory for both sides, so you can simultaneously be on the brink of victory and the verge of defeat.

And each game I've played has gone to the wire - it's never clear who is going to win. Takes a long time to play, though. And I keep itching to paint the pieces.

I will try Puerto Rico. Gloom and Haunted House are the latest acquistions (by my DH the non-goth), and they are both cute. Gloom's hook is transparent plastic cards, so you can stack them and see through the stack. Also, Gorey-esque art.

Re: Prison break

I was only half watching. He doesn't REALLY have diabetes, right? But yes, I am sure that there would medical records, not just a "Oh, you need insulin. Only once or twice a week. Ok"

Right, Sophia. It's a ruse. But a poorly planned and/or written one, if you ask me.

Gloom's hook is transparent plastic cards, so you can stack them and see through the stack. Also, Gorey-esque art.

Oohh! I'll have to look for that.

I didn't bother with Prison Break. I couldn't work past the wank of the brother getting sent to the same facility his brother was in. Real prisons are a lot more random.

I did, however, start watching Rome on Sunday. It's very soap-operaish. But with full frontal nudity and pornographic graffeti.

Re Prison Break...

I missed the first 45 minutes (I shouldn't even have TiVo, if I'm not going to program it), and only remembered it was on, because someone on LJ posted about it, while watching. Will these episodes be rerun? We tried to watch for a few minutes, but were too behind to get into the story.

I saw the part where he told the resident tough racist jerk (Teabag, right?) who had people holding onto his outturned pocket, that he wasn't going to be his girlfriend. And I saw him keep failing to get away with the bolt from the bleachers. I saw a guard or some prison official color on the pad of paper in what I assume is WM's character's cell, to reveal what had been written on the previous sheet. And I saw John Doe (sorry--forget the actor's name) have his little reverie about being in bed with the girl. That's about it--at least, that's it of what I can remember.

What was the first 45 minutes about?

I didn't bother with Prison Break. I couldn't work past the wank of the brother getting sent to the same facility his brother was in. Real prisons are a lot more random.

I seem to recall Wolfram explaining that this was not beyond the bounds of reason, but I could be wrong.

I had a dream that there was a Buffista F2F, but we couldn't use the hospitality suite because another group was using it to display food sculpted out of avacados.

Those BASTARDS!

(Also, that reminds me that I meant to bring an avocado to work to go on my lunch sandwich, but I forgot. Is there no justice???)

I have a petty issue with Prison Break -- I like feeling, when I watch a TV show, as though a lot of different things can happen. From the previews, I think I can guess how Prison Break will end without seeing minute one. (A conspiracy is detected, and then seems to be un-detected, and is ultimately proven correct with a Surprising New Twist. Meanwhile, there are various tribulations in the jail, some of which are scary and others humorous. The brothers get out of prison in the end, with a lot of help from their friends.)

I may have seen too much TV.

I watched a documentary about a little girl born with Treacher Collins syndrome, which produces severe abnormalities of the facial bones. Suffice it to say that the delivery room nurse who took the newborn to the MRI machine was astounded to find out that she had a normal brain because of the degree of deformity. She's two years old now, using sign language because she can't physically talk (or eat) because of her tracheotomy and swallowing difficulties, but because of repeated surgeries has something approaching a face and the definite possibility of gaining something like a normal appearance.

It reminds me that a) I think I have troubles and b) surgeons really do some brave, heroic, complicated stuff and c) there are a lot of heroes out there....

I could have watched Prison Break but I just wasn't in the mood....