sunday

[low_delta]

My day was nice. Very relaxed.

Sat around in the morning and read the paaper with Cyn. Came home and putzed around for a while. Then she showed up and we went by my dad's gallery. And old friend was there so we chatted for a bit. (Stay calm, keep swimming...). Then we putzed around Shopko for a bit. then we got some Chinese take-out.

Then we drove over to Cedarburg for a walk around. The first place we went was an old cemetary. The latest date I can find there is 1890. I taken some pictures there last fall, so I didn't take my camera. I was disappointed that I didn't because there was a cat hanging around. She was very friendly and wanted to be petted and scratched and held for a while. Then when she had gotten enough attention, she followed us around posing on headstones. She was mostly white, with some grey, and would have made a beautiful contrast to the shaded grass, and the grey marble headstones. After a while she lost interest in us altogether, but she did get up to see us off.

After that, Cyn and I walked around town for a while. We admired the homes and gardens, and watched fish try to climb the dam, and saw the ducks and ducklings, and rode the swings and the see-saw, walked through the low-lying fog.

Then we came back here to play a few games of mancala, before it was time for her to go. The sun goes down so late now, that we didn't realize how late it was until it was nearly too late - well, it really was late, but... um, nevermind.

Comments

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

You know what? I yearn for days like that. I don't know if I'm still capable of having such a leisurely, relaxing day. Damn, I'm envious.

[banana.livejournal.com]

Must be feeling sleepier that I realised - I just read "...walked through the low-flying dog."

What's mancala?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Mancala is an ancient African game where you try to capture stones from a board consisting of fourteen cups. Easy to learn.

[banana.livejournal.com]

Ah - seen it, but never played.

OK, now I have. 8~)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Okay, that pissed me off. That fucking computer cheats. It took me a while to learn the particular set of rules, and it was confusing because just when I thought I learned one, based on what happened to the stones when I moved, something else would happen when the computer placed them. And once, I swear it picked them up from a pit where there were no seeds. And I'd swear it... And I finally thought I'd won a game (on "easy" - after 45 minutes) when I lost. I could not figure out how the computer could possibly have won it. It was 15 stones to 14, and its move, and it had no moves to get a stone in home, and it won.

[banana.livejournal.com]

Yes, that did piss you off!

I didn't paid the minimal amount of attention to what the computer was doing, and beat it on my second attempt, but I suspect that was a fluke.

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

The fact that you won on the second attempt may piss him off even more ;)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

No, it was a fluke.

;-)

[banana.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've played a few more times now, and it *was* a complete fluke.

However, I started paying more attention, and I think you're right - it *does* cheat!.
Have a look at the screen shot here. (Oh no, big pic. Sorry).

Now, how did the computer get the stone from it's hole with 1 to move two places? Shouldn't it have just gone in the next hole?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

:-D