Back in my more volatile days, I chucked the Taboo buzzer at my friend Shane who was attempting to cheat at Taboo, and hit someone else! I do not like losing, and therefore absent myself from most games. Although, I have to say what really pissed me off was the cheating!

More Scola Visit pictures [link]

OMG, I want a game night.

Scola crushed us with his mathical brain.

Well, of course.

I have played neither of these games. I don't do much in the party game space anymore - Bohnanza is what counts as a party game for me these days. (The one party game whose loss I really mourn is Pictionary. My youngest brother and I make a killer team, I've always enjoyed playing with him. But thatnks to some bad experiences with friends, he refuses to play it anymore.)

I did not accomplish much today, but I did make pie. Delicious pie.

Aurelia (and Brenda, if you can make it), how do you feel about dinner tomorrow? Or Wednesday? I usually leave work around 6 or 6:30. I haven't eaten at Singha in ages, so that's my suggestion unless there's someplace else you'd like to try.

OMG, I want a game night.

My fondest memories from my FAC days are of games nights (including one where they awarded prizes for best scores, first prize being a block of limburger to contribute the smell of success).

I think with mac liking his PS2 solo games enough now, I could actually have people over for dinner and a game or two. Of course if someone were to play with mac, I could make it more like lunch and many hours of games.

I miss game nights too. But with Polgara you have to shore yourself up. She has the competitive gene.

I think Take On Me is my favourite one hit wonder with video, although I have heard at least one more Aha song.

I miss game night. But most of my friends now are from other countries, so games like Trivial Pursuit just aren't fair, and neither are language-based games like Scrabble and Boggle, and we usually end up with logic-based games, which I tend to get bored with pretty quickly.

If you choose to work contractor the best way to handle health insurance is join some sort of group, so you can get group rates. And given your conditions choose the expensive options that give you the widest choice of provider. In Washington State if you've had coverage, they only let providers rate you on age not previous condition, which would keep costs within reason. Not sure all states have that rule, so you need to check regulations in whatever state you would live.

Chamber of commerce is the best deal for many people (so you pay the annual fee to be a chamber member, plus the monthly fee for your insurance, plus co-pays, deductibles and so on.)

Years ago the way to translate contract rates into rates for a company that provides benefits and pays employers portion of social security was to discount by 30% to 40%. Don't know what the formula today is, but maybe some HR people on board can say. At any rate I'm pretty sure you have to figure contractor payment is worth at least 35% less per hour than working as an employee. Benefits, tax status employer portion of FICA, unbillable hours - both for paperwork, and for stuff that you actually do for client that for various reasons you cannot bill.

And this asumes that you can get group health insurance that is purely age rated. Don't know whether some states can take existing condition into account when setting rates even if you have had no period without insurance.