I love backgammon. It's the one game I'm pretty cutthroat about, which Ben learned pretty early. I need to teach Sara to play, because checkers get boring.

We had a game I loved as kid, called Waterworks, where you have to piece the cards together to make a pipeline. I rescued it from my parents' basement, and the kids love that one, too.

I want you people to call my aunt in New Orleans and tell her about doppleganger werewolves. And you know what? She'll think I'm crazy. But if it had been about Scrabble, she'd still remember.

I can only play Balderdash if I play with my sister. We bullshit alike. Though, now that she has a PhD, I'm sure she can outbullshit me...but she shouldn't.

When is a flash drive a "dongle"?

Sometimes a dongle is a bit of hardware you attach to your computer (I guess they'd all be USB now) that confirms you have a legal copy of some software.

We had a game I loved as kid, called Waterworks, where you have to piece the cards together to make a pipeline. I rescued it from my parents' basement, and the kids love that one, too.

The cards were pipes? I loved that game.

Yeah, the cards were pipes! It's fun.

I call my USB cellular modem a dongle. Also the whosit.

Card games with regular cards: do you guys play Up and Down the River? We were introduced to it by our friends in Kansas and we play it every time we see each other. It can totally be a vicious game. I am fine with it except for the social aspects at which I predictably suck.

When is a flash drive a "dongle"? Also, if I never have to hear my boss at the theatre talking about his "dongle" again, it will be to soon.

It's like when my friend refers to random objects as a "hoo-hah". I'm like "um, that refers to lady parts, not the stapler"

Jesse, that is of the massive suck.

Pool was....I needed a catcher's mask, swear to god. Hand in the face, balls in my lane at least every other, ball to the face once and a near miss. I wanted to strangle those kids.

Mom made my reservations to pick up D. I fly out with him on the 22 and back to B'ham alone the 27. I'm probably going to aim to come straight back here, but go out for a long weekend on the way out. I realize part of my stress about this is a) not really being in a position to control the dates and times much (if she put me on a dawn flight....blearg) and b) cat anxiety. Namely, not really knowing how Mister Kitty'll be doing. Anti-bs were to have worn off this weekend, and his face hasn't blown up, but...I kinda worry about leaving even for a week this soon. And then there are the expenses, which I really don't want to have right now, but mom is at least footing the flights, she really wants to see me, it'll be the first time I've been back to NM in a couple years at least (and the new screened porch will be finished), and I can't pass up an opportunity to see my brother and family. So.

Am so fucking cranky.

Jesse, that sucks!! Especially since you did it with H&RBlock, shouldn't they have some kind of guarantee or help??

Especially since you did it with H&RBlock, shouldn't they have some kind of guarantee or help??

I would have thought.... I mean, they did help -- the guy figured out what I had missed, but still. I don't know.