Wanda has discovered on line Scrabble.....she is OK during the work week but on week ends, look out. Hopefully she will start eating and taking showers and wearing clean clothes again soon. I'm picturing her sitting around in a t-shirt and boxers wearing a ball cap and drinking beer while juggling four Scrabble games at a time. She and I used to play back when it was a board game and I always lost. Now, she has some stiff competition.
Please, don't get me wrong here, I'm not complaining. I remember when I was attached to a Nintendo controller playing "The Legend of Zelda." Wanda would hit the sack and when she got up for work I was still on the couch, usually muttering about some dungeon or other.
We used to play board and card games regularly. My favorite board game is Risk . I discovered, and started to play, around 1965. When my brother Allen was in town we would play and alternately make our moves when we had time. Some games would take weeks to complete. It wasn't Chess but it took a lot of thought and was a heck of a lot of fun.
One evening years ago I was at a friends house (I am not going to mention names but they are both on Face Book and read this) and we started talking about board games. I was the only one there familiar with Risk. We had six people, the maximum number of players, so I went home and got the game.
Back at the house I unpacked the game. We all sat down on the floor (remember when you could do that?) around the board. I explained the strategy and the equipment the rules and the set up. I talked about the various procedures and the lay out. I told everyone about the cards and the dice. I went over everything I could think of to insure everyone had a good understanding of the game. When I was satisfied I said, "OK let's put everything back and start with the cards."
One of the group said, "You mean we haven't been playing?" "It took you an hour and a half to explain the RULES?" ......and left to go make a sandwich.
We never did get the game played.
A California appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of a product-defect and negligence suit against Philips Medical Systems filed by a woman who says her knees were crushed while she was being screened by a nuclear imaging device.
In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal said the suit was properly dismissed because the plaintiff lacked evidence to back her defect and negligence allegations or additional claims for breach of contract and premises liability.
The women alleged she was having a bone scan of her foot at a Los Angeles-area nuclear medicine facility when the Philips-made radionuclide camera being used for the test dropped onto her knees with a “crushing force,” causing “lasting injuries.”
This was tossed out of court so if you ladies ever get the idea when having your mammograms, forget it. Sometimes we need to put up with a little discomfort to know we're healthy. I readily acknowledge I know nothing about getting my "chests" squeezed in a vice. I would happily trade one of my prostate exams to find out.
Yesterday I wrote about some product you simply "sprinkle" on your food and you eat less. I have been trying, off and on, to drop five pounds. The mornings I exercise I seem to have more of an appetite. The mornings I don't work out I can easily go all day on very few calories. So, exercise = eat more, no exercise = eat less.
Why do so many things seem to be so difficult?
Anyone up for a game of Risk?
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