The way the cookie crumbles

A lot of crapiness went down last week, mostly involving me working long hours. Also the weather. It has been raining almost constantly for two weeks, and I seem to be getting SAD.

Fortunately I had a weekend of absolutely nothing planned so have thus been able to at least regain some of my headspace. I took my new Macbook Pro, Brian, home and am using him now. He has all the latest Office and Adobe software loaded onto him. I spent a large part of Saturday waiting for my files to transfer from Drew (Powerbook) so instead of watching a blank screen for several hours I went for a walk down to Crows Nest to check out a clothing sale (lame) and discover the neighbourhood a little.

I found a Franklins in Crows Nest, which pleased me no end because this means I can get cheap 'branded' stuff instead of the imitation things that Aldi stocks. Don't get me wrong, Aldi is great for most things but when I want Corn Thins, I want Corn Thins, not an approximation.

On Sunday I went to Wintergreen to drop off my dad's car and Sir picked me up (she stayed at her parents' place over the weekend) from there to go to the movies.


Saw 'Prince of Persia', which was actually pretty good. The fact that Jake Gyllenhaal spends most of the movie partially unclothed obviously helps the movie's cause as well, but I also found the fight scenes and action sequences really well done.

Came back to Artarmon and hosted my first Card Sharp game. I started a Meetup group for card games because I really want to get back into playing cards and my friends are not card people. I asked for intermediate players but I still managed to get two beginners, one of which was an older lady, you know the type, can't remember any of the rules or whether 'three of kind' meant three of one number or three of one suit... Also the type to say as much as she can about herself as flippantly as possible so it is difficult to even know what to say.

Leith: "I'm a bit of a night owl."
Me: "Do you have trouble sleeping or is it just habit?"
Leith: "Well I was an abused wife for several years so I got used to staying up."

Riiiiiiight... Feels wrong to ignore the remark but really, what do you say to THAT?

Anyway, the other beginner was John, who was lovely. Though he'd never played Hearts before he caught on really quickly. That's what I call card sense, and you tend to have it or you don't. Inexplicably, I have it.

The fourth player was David, who was experienced and was really patient in relaying the rules and gameplay to the other two, so I left that task to him. Although John left at 5.30pm (he'd come from Penrith), the other two stayed until 9.30pm = more than 5 hours of card-playing.

After I shooed them out I did some laundry and baked fudge cookies. I may have dropped a couple and eaten them off the floor, I may not have. That's the way the cookie crumbles.