Cards

Ran into Gregg at the gym this morning -- he's the friend (and SF Symphony honcho) who got us tickets to take my mom and aunt to see "Peter and the Wolf" on Sunday, with Leonard Nimoy narrating. I thought Nimoy was a bit of a bust -- not one Spock allusion or joke -- but Gregg said Nimoy was adamant about not doing anything that referred to his most popular role, not even a single "And Peter closed the gate so the wolf could not get in, which was ... most logical." This made for a very straightforward telling of the piece, and not nearly as entertaining as Daniel Handler's version from two years ago, wherein the Lemony Snicket author changed it to a gruesome story of a depraved boy named Peter and his horrible persecution of a poor forest wolf.

We did run into capy and Joe, and saw dhpbear way down in the front row. They might have been hoping for a slightly more Spock-ish narration as well.

Been playing a lot of Hand and Foot Canasta with my mom and my aunt while they are here. After an initial win, the team of my mom and me has fallen every night to Jack and my aunt:



As you can see, we're consistently coming in right below their scores, but our luck may change tonight, because I'm swapping chair positions with my mom. Something has to give.

Success

Yes! Mom and I crushed qbear and Aunt Doris in Hand and Foot Canasta tonight, 7320 to 5375. Exchanging chairs appears to have done the trick!

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I'm glad that people enjoy seem to enjoy the morning conversations Jack and I have in the car, but I don't transcribe them all ... this morning, for instance, we were talking so much about how the human body could be improved (ears inside your mouth so you could hear yourself eating, nose on top of your head so you could snorkel, etc.) that I couldn't remember half of what we said. I do recall Jack saying that if we had chameleon skin I'd find it easier to shirk my chores, because I'd blend in with the background, so he'd have to startle me so I'd "flash" like an octopus, but then I'd squirt ink all around, and that'd be another dang thing for him to clean up.