Mes Souhaites

I'm stuck at the bureau because I left my phone at home then lent my key to someone. To fill the boredom I am looking up card games. Molly and I have been playing a bit in the evenings but all that she knows are Skipbo and Egyptian Rat Screw. (I know nothing.)

I have been hunting for good two person games and one I remember playing before is spades. I couldn't remember the rules though.

Start out with the dealing. You alternate between the players. Each draws a card and decides if they want to keep it. If they do then they look at the next card and discard it face down. If they don't then they discard the card face down and take the next card off the deck. Either way each turn a card is taken and a card is discarded. When the deck is exhausted this will leave both players with thirteen cards.

Spades is a normal trump game where spades are always trump. Suit must always be followed. Spades may not be led until broken or until a player has nothing but spades in his hand. Spades are broken when played on a hand of a different suit (when the player didn't have that suit).

After the deal each player bids, starting with the player that didn't draw first, a number of tricks. If you don't make your bid you lose ten points for each trick you bid. If you make your bid you get ten points for each trick up to your bid and lose ten points for each sandbag or overbid trick. Bidding nil (no tricks) is worth 100 points. Losing the bid though carries a penalty of 100 points. Shooting the moon (all 13 tricks) also has a special value of 200 points. The first person to hit 500 wins. If both hit in the same round, the higher score wins.

I know some really interesting people here… The game de la semaine is based off the song "Deez Nuts" from The Chronic. The intro to the song goes like this:

[phone rings]

Woman: "Hello?"

Thug: "Whassup?"

Woman: "Hello, what you doin?"

Thug: "Nuthin', just kickin' it."

Woman: "You all done?"

Thug: "Naw, what you gonna do today?"

Woman: "Um, pick up my clothes from the cleaners. I'm gonna get my nails done…"

Thug: "Hey, did what's his name get at you yesterday?"

Woman: "Who?"

Thug: "Deeeeeezzz Nutsss!"

Woman: "Aw, shut up nigga."

[phone click]

Trying to get people to say, "who?" when they are on the lookout for it is a real challenge. On our way up to Terjit this last weekend we had a couple Hassaniya speakers with us. At one stop a guy went into a boutique and start talking about a friend of his in Nouakchott who had a friend in this village. When the boutiquiére inquired, "minwho?", the requisite "Deez Nuts" reply left us all rolling. It was a bit obnoxious, but good natured enough to not be seriously mean.

I've been in the lab quite a bit in the last week getting caught up on the firewall and my classes. The biggest evidence for my occupation is my regular updates. I have a limited capacity for concentrated work; after a bit, I all of a sudden discover I'm not working, but instead recounting my lack of oral pleasuring to God and the internet.

Today I got bored and wandered the net for a while. I took the mythological profile test out of rumielf's journal. (I'm a roc, btw.) While there, I noticed that the site, okcupid, is a dating sort of site.

WAIST left me remembering how I like dating and realizing I miss it. Granted, I live several thousand miles from everyone, and I don't expect to do any dating here, but I made myself an account. I figure just talking to someone would be entertaining. I've enjoyed reading the different profiles of people. Still not sure about the general dateability of the fairer sex, but I'm finding two years does wonders for developing willingness to try.