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Uggggg..... It's already gross here. Will be like this for the next week through the weekend at least.

Glad you think it might be cooling off by you Brenda.



I finished the contact paper on the shelves last night after my last post.

Gotta find the will to clean up the house today. I hate chores!



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Uggggg..... It's already gross here. Will be like this for the next week through the weekend at least.

Glad you think it might be cooling off by you Brenda.



I finished the contact paper on the shelves last night after my last post.

Gotta find the will to clean up the house today. I hate chores!



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Uggggg..... It's already gross here. Will be like this for the next week through the weekend at least.

Glad you think it might be cooling off by you Brenda.



I finished the contact paper on the shelves last night after my last post.

Gotta find the will to clean up the house today. I hate chores!



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I'll do the cleaning if you do the yardwork! I'll even throw in some cooking.


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I still haven't done anything. Hope you're getting more done than me Sigs.
The naps have been nice though.


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Out for my walk. Need a refill on my seizure meds and one other small thing.

Stretched too far the other day when I was cleaning the stove top. Had to reach other spots that were dirty. Sore right shoulder because of that.

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Out for my walk. Need a refill on my seizure meds and one other small thing.

Stretched too far the other day when I was cleaning the stove top. Had to reach other spots that were dirty. Sore right shoulder because of that.

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I know the feeling.
But at least your stove is clean.


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I still haven't done anything. Hope you're getting more done than me Sigs.
The naps have been nice though.


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Too busy to post, but not much accomplished I'm afraid!
I did make chicken Tikka Masala tho, a new recipe for dinner. I'm always looking for new ways to disguise chicken bc hubby "hates chicken".

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Back and in with no luck at mah jong today. Hard to get going when there are 4 people playing at a table.

Got some groceries and the rain has stopped. Have to see if we get anymore.

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Back and in with no luck at mah jong today. Hard to get going when there are 4 people playing at a table.

Got some groceries and the rain has stopped. Have to see if we get anymore.

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How many people usually play, Brenda?

My only exposure to Mah Jong is from video games and while really old ones only allowed for two players, the more modern ones all seem to have four. I thought it was a four player game.

Or do you do like a tournament style where the winners move on to another game?

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Back and in with no luck at mah jong today. Hard to get going when there are 4 people playing at a table.

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How many people usually play, Brenda?

My only exposure to Mah Jong is from video games and while really old ones only allowed for two players, the more modern ones all seem to have four. I thought it was a four player game.

Or do you do like a tournament style where the winners move on to another game?

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I think today there must have been 12 of us playing. We get any where on a Thursday from 9 to 12 playing.

I've played mah jong on the computer for years where I am just playing against the computer. But I did find a computer game that let you play like there are 3 others playing with you.

It depends on which version of mah jong you are playing as to how many are seated at a table.

What I play is between 3 or 4 people to a table. Each person picks a number to see what table you are playing at. Then we stay at the same table for the whole 2 hours of play.

The person with the highest score gets 1st prize, then the second highest gets 2nd prize and 3rd highest score gets 3rd prize. And the lowest of whatever number is picked gets the booby prize.

With four people playing you can end up with 3 people all collecting the same thing. That happened to me today. Ended up with one hand with all pairs at the end of the round. Found that the lady sitting across from me had in her hand what I needed.

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Out for my walk. Couple of things to do. Little bit of extra heat around this weekend. Fires still happening up the Interior and lots of people being evacuated from their homes.

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Back and in with no luck at mah jong today. Hard to get going when there are 4 people playing at a table.

Got some groceries and the rain has stopped. Have to see if we get anymore.

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How many people usually play, Brenda?

My only exposure to Mah Jong is from video games and while really old ones only allowed for two players, the more modern ones all seem to have four. I thought it was a four player game.

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I think today there must have been 12 of us playing. We get any where on a Thursday from 9 to 12 playing.

I've played mah jong on the computer for years where I am just playing against the computer. But I did find a computer game that let you play like there are 3 others playing with you.

It depends on which version of mah jong you are playing as to how many are seated at a table.

What I play is between 3 or 4 people to a table. Each person picks a number to see what table you are playing at. Then we stay at the same table for the whole 2 hours of play.

The person with the highest score gets 1st prize, then the second highest gets 2nd prize and 3rd highest score gets 3rd prize. And the lowest of whatever number is picked gets the booby prize.

With four people playing you can end up with 3 people all collecting the same thing. That happened to me today. Ended up with one hand with all pairs at the end of the round. Found that the lady sitting across from me had in her hand what I needed.

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Ah. I see. It's a pretty long game then if you don't put time limits on it.

That's how it was when I used to host Texas Hold 'em tournaments. It was fun when you were doing good, but bust early and it's a pretty boring night. Usually we could get two tournaments in, but sometimes the last two players would hang in so long that there wasn't a second game.

Once I get my porch put together I'd like to host them again. I'm going to have to figure out something for the early losers to do though. I mean we had the TV on, and even though I wasn't into sports if there was an event it would be on the TV while we played. But I think that was probably more distracting than anything. Before I host games again I think I'll do some online research to see if anybody else has figured out a good side thing to be doing when playing Hold 'em.


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Out for my walk. Couple of things to do. Little bit of extra heat around this weekend. Fires still happening up the Interior and lots of people being evacuated from their homes.

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I'm surprised there are so much fires up by you right now. I'd have figured it was just too wet for that by you. Another stifling weekend ahead for us too, but plenty of rain to keep fires from happening.

I don't think the chances of rain are too high today. I'm going to check first and see about getting my lawn mowed. It can use it.

I might talk to my neighbor about that 2nd sump pump/well solution today. Wouldn't be getting anything done, but if I can get him over here soon we can brainstorm ideas about the best placement for it and what I'd need to buy to get it done. From what he was saying the last time he was here, the well might be going quite a bit further away from where the existing one sits, which would mean a long line of electric would need to be installed from the existing box, which would also require me to change out the old box entirely for a larger one. Not the worst thing in the world though since I could add a double switch to the box so I could turn either of the pumps off manually without needing to pull out the cords. Hell... I've got the material. At this point I might as well bring a new length of pipe to the entrance of the crawl space for those switches and I could control them from inside the living space of the basement without having to duck walk and get dirty.

I've also got pipe, connectors and boxes/plates for that part of the job. I'd just need to buy another coil of copper wire at a very high price. PVC isn't cheap right now either, but since this wouldn't need to connect to the existing pipes at all I wouldn't need to be buying much. I've also already got a resin well and an unopened backup sump pump, so this shouldn't break the bank.


Down the road I'm probably going to be adding a box outside by the breaker box that I could use to shut off power from the main and insert my generator power into my house. My generator is pretty bad ass, but it's not enough to power the whole house. I'd have to turn off some breakers for things like the A/C, but if I did this I would be able to have enough power for the fridge and the pump as well as a few lights and some entertainment when the power goes out.

That's down the road though. Not super expensive, but I've got a lot of other things that are more pressing to do first.

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You would think so what with the wet Spring and early June. But all that luck has run out in BC. There are over 50 fires burning in my province and at least 6 that caused the evacuations.

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That to me sounds like a load of work you are setting for yourself. But with help and chipping away at it I don't think it will be too bad.

Hope you can get some of it done before Fall or winter sets in.

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It can be. You can play as many hands as you want. But we have a set time limit at the senior's centre. They only have so many rooms, so most activities only go about 2 hours.

Mah jong can be the same. Fun when you are doing but very frustrating when you can't get the tiles you need to go out or get a good hand.

Sounds like a good plan SIX. I hope you can get something worked out.

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Yeah. Having never been to Canada myself, I just imagine the entire country resembling Siberia 365 days of the year. I'm sure that's not reality even on years where fires aren't burning. Hope you get some of the rain we've been getting. Crazy how much we've had despite the heat. But it makes for super humid days with very few days of relief in between. We look to be getting 2 or 3 days that don't hit 80 after this miserable weekend, but I don't expect it to feel any cooler because of the water.

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That to me sounds like a load of work you are setting for yourself. But with help and chipping away at it I don't think it will be too bad.

Hope you can get some of it done before Fall or winter sets in.

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Thanks. Me too.

Not going to happen today or tomorrow though. The second I step out onto my back porch it feels like I'm sweating because of the moisture in the air. You don't even notice the ceiling fan when its on out there. Bright sunny day too, with a high of 90, so it's probably going to feel like 115 degrees out there in the sun right now.

Nope. Not interested.

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It can be. You can play as many hands as you want. But we have a set time limit at the senior's centre. They only have so many rooms, so most activities only go about 2 hours.

Mah jong can be the same. Fun when you are doing but very frustrating when you can't get the tiles you need to go out or get a good hand.

Sounds like a good plan SIX. I hope you can get something worked out.

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Yeah... I don't think anybody would be down for any time limits on Hold 'Em. Usually when we played once the players were whittled down to only 2 or 3 the rest of the game went pretty quickly. But string a whole lot of bad hands for everybody together and you could have the last two or three sitting there playing for another 2 hours and the night is burnt for everyone else.

Most of the people I'd be hosting were huge fans of a few 4 player games on the Nintendo 64 called 007: Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64. I'm going to have at least a 50 inch TV out there, so maybe that's something that could be done while the game is going on. I dunno though, that might be even more distracting to the poker game than having sports on. And actually, my poker table is pretty huge when it's unfolded. Might not even really be enough room out there to do that without seriously impacting the poker games.

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It can be. You can play as many hands as you want. But we have a set time limit at the senior's centre. They only have so many rooms, so most activities only go about 2 hours.

Mah jong can be the same. Fun when you are doing but very frustrating when you can't get the tiles you need to go out or get a good hand.

Sounds like a good plan SIX. I hope you can get something worked out.

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Yeah... I don't think anybody would be down for any time limits on Hold 'Em. Usually when we played once the players were whittled down to only 2 or 3 the rest of the game went pretty quickly. But string a whole lot of bad hands for everybody together and you could have the last two or three sitting there playing for another 2 hours and the night is burnt for everyone else.

Most of the people I'd be hosting were huge fans of a few 4 player games on the Nintendo 64 called 007: Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64. I'm going to have at least a 50 inch TV out there, so maybe that's something that could be done while the game is going on. I dunno though, that might be even more distracting to the poker game than having sports on. And actually, my poker table is pretty huge when it's unfolded. Might not even really be enough room out there to do that without seriously impacting the poker games.

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When I was playing more than once a week, we would play for between 3 to 4 hours.

I've heard of those video games and one point I just had a basic nintendo but I decided to get rid of it.

You might have to give up on the tv idea then and just stick to the poker.

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At least your weather has moderated somewhat. But is still seems awfully hot for your area this year!
I sure hope this doesn't portend a repeat of the ridiculously resilient ridge that causef us so much grief a few years ago!

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Apparently I was shorting the avocados of water bc they were dropping leaves unseasonably, so I spent some time rescue- watering today. I had to hose-water bc the irrigation valve is busted, and I would replace it with a ball valve except that it's right behind the beehive in a very narrow space, and the hive would be between me and escape. The bees, they're quite placid, but still... the noise of a saw (cutting pipe) might rile them up and I don't trust them THAT much.

The only way to work on it would bee (get it? BEE?) at night when the bees are asleep (that's when I went to inspect it) but been too busy to commit time and energy to that repair when I have other more immediate things to worry/think about.

And St Vincent de Paul never did come by to pick up the donation items I was hoping to see gone. The solid wheels came in yesterday so we fixed the hand truck to move some of the heavier items, but by then someone had kyped a few boxes altho they were labeled 'St Vincent de Paul". A-holes abound!

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It can be. You can play as many hands as you want. But we have a set time limit at the senior's centre. They only have so many rooms, so most activities only go about 2 hours.

Mah jong can be the same. Fun when you are doing but very frustrating when you can't get the tiles you need to go out or get a good hand.

Sounds like a good plan SIX. I hope you can get something worked out.

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Yeah... I don't think anybody would be down for any time limits on Hold 'Em. Usually when we played once the players were whittled down to only 2 or 3 the rest of the game went pretty quickly. But string a whole lot of bad hands for everybody together and you could have the last two or three sitting there playing for another 2 hours and the night is burnt for everyone else.

Most of the people I'd be hosting were huge fans of a few 4 player games on the Nintendo 64 called 007: Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64. I'm going to have at least a 50 inch TV out there, so maybe that's something that could be done while the game is going on. I dunno though, that might be even more distracting to the poker game than having sports on. And actually, my poker table is pretty huge when it's unfolded. Might not even really be enough room out there to do that without seriously impacting the poker games.

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When I was playing more than once a week, we would play for between 3 to 4 hours.

I've heard of those video games and one point I just had a basic nintendo but I decided to get rid of it.

You might have to give up on the tv idea then and just stick to the poker.

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When I hosted a sleepover for dear daughter we had a casual pool table set up. Not a real professional one... that would have gone thru the floor!... but still, fun enough to play on.

Maybe a pool table in another room? And beer and peanuts? Music?

Or maybe videogames, but in another room. That way it wouldn't be too distracting.

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It can be. You can play as many hands as you want. But we have a set time limit at the senior's centre. They only have so many rooms, so most activities only go about 2 hours.
Mah jong can be the same. Fun when you are doing but very frustrating when you can't get the tiles you need to go out or get a good hand.

Sounds like a good plan SIX. I hope you can get something worked out.

SIX: Yeah... I don't think anybody would be down for any time limits on Hold 'Em. Usually when we played once the players were whittled down to only 2 or 3 the rest of the game went pretty quickly. But string a whole lot of bad hands for everybody together and you could have the last two or three sitting there playing for another 2 hours and the night is burnt for everyone else.

Most of the people I'd be hosting were huge fans of a few 4 player games on the Nintendo 64 called 007: Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64. I'm going to have at least a 50 inch TV out there, so maybe that's something that could be done while the game is going on. I dunno though, that might be even more distracting to the poker game than having sports on. And actually, my poker table is pretty huge when it's unfolded. Might not even really be enough room out there to do that without seriously impacting the poker games.

BRENDA: When I was playing more than once a week, we would play for between 3 to 4 hours.
I've heard of those video games and one point I just had a basic nintendo but I decided to get rid of it.
You might have to give up on the tv idea then and just stick to the poker.

SIGNY: When I hosted a sleepover for dear daughter we had a casual pool table set up. Not a real professional one... that would have gone thru the floor!... but still, fun enough to play on.
Maybe a pool table in another room? And beer and peanuts? Music?
Or maybe videogames, but in another room. That way it wouldn't be too distracting.

SIX: There's only one room in this house that could host a legitimate pool table and stick action, and that's the master bedroom, I'm afraid. It would have to be some sort of bumper pool table, or a comically small pool table. It's a big house, but the layout isn't the best. The pool table would work in the back porch too, but that would make the poker or pretty much everything else impossible. My buddy has one in his garage. I don't know how he even got his wife to let him do that. They can't park either vehicle in there now.

Some of my group are extremely serious about pool. I used to shoot with them years ago and still do from time to time now, but they never quit and are on weekly leagues all year long. They're not going to want to play on anything that isn't legit.



I'm cool with beer. I'm sure they will be drinking and smoking weed while they're here. (Outside or in the porch, of course). The temptation for alcohol is gone for me, and the only time I've ever been tempted in my life to smoke some weed after I'd quit was when I was drunk, so that's cool too.

What I need to do is get around to buying a nice big screen TV for the living room. Plenty of seating in there, and I've got tons of retro game stuff hooked up, but there's only like a 40" TV or something. Most of my friends have 70" or higher when I'm over at their place.

I'd also like to build an arcade cabinet, either from scratch or restore an old one if I luck into a decent cab on Craigslist. I've got an awesome sofware setup that can either be installed inside using old XBox or PS consoles or even just a Raspberry Pi, and all of the schematics to get everything wired up properly for the controls.

I think having some old-skool Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter matches on a legit cabinet would be a cool thing to do when you're out of the game. If I know my friends, they'll probably be betting on that too.

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Well, that sounds more comfortable!

I sure hope that the interior gets some of that wet weather too.

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