Game Night

Tom apparently has a regular board game night on Tuesdays, and today I got invited because several of the regulars didn't show up. Everyone else drank lots and lots of alcohol; I passed on that, although I had some pringles and girl scout cookies.

The games we played were:

• Citadel, which I hated, although I came in second.


• Bang, which was really boring. I was the sheriff, and the guy playing the renegade didn't realize that if *he* attacked the sheriff he would lose because the bandits would quickly win. Especially if two of them were drawing four cards a round.


• Killer Bunnies, which was intensely frustrating, because no one knew the rules so we had to argue about them a lot. Bang had that same problem, since it tried to use a complicated system of symbols instead of writing out the effects of the cards... Bunnies didn't do that, but the way you played cards was really odd. I lost badly, but *not* because I screwed up and accidentally blew up my own bunnies -- I lost because Ed happened to buy the lucky winning carrot on the second turn of the game.

Of all of them, the one I'd most like to play again is probably Killer Bunnies, then Citadel, then Bang. But none of them rank among the games I'd ever like to play again. q:3

Also, Tom's 'other friends' were picking on me all night. Not in game -- I was mostly left alone in game. I mean they were teasing and insulting and patronizing me constantly, egged on by Tom who was trying to look cool to them or something. Flashback to junior high!

Oh, and the latest song running around and around in my head...

( Don't tell the director I said so... )

I remember as a kid thinking this was the weirdest song ever. Not 'are you okay', but 'are you *safe*'? It still seems slightly odd, but now I like it.

It was the soundtrack for a very long, somewhat stressful dream I had last night, which involved trying to do my job (programming) in a big open space that was sort of like a school cafeteria, with worn wooden tables and benches. A bunch of marketing types sat down at my table while I was out getting some more food, and wouldn't leave even after I sat back down in front of my laptop to try to work.

Eventually, someone used a 'planar lens' to expand the space inside the cafeteria, but it was too late because everyone had already left except for me and one other person... so we were the only ones who got to see the whole place light up with sparkles... it was really pretty.

Then I got outside and my car was being stolen.