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Shabbat: pleasant and undemanding.
Sunday we visited a high school friend and her husband. This is someone with whom I was close 25 years ago -- but we basically have nothing in common now. I am not especially interested in a relationship with them, but she is with me so I've been going along with it. And this time they did not try to convert me to Christianity by mis-quoting the bible like they did last time, so that was a success. We chatted mostly about things that do not matter, showed them how to put their computer into power-saver mode and how to hang up their modem without rebooting (!), and left a few hours later. (They have gotten onto the net, which means they are now believing and forwarding all the folklore and hoaxes that have been going around for years, but there didn't appear to be any way to really teach them there. Another time, perhaps.)
Sunday dinner was very nice. The secret of the chili was apparently cumin; I must remember this. (It was a turkey -- well, chicken in this case -- chili with beans and without tomatoes.) Yum!
After dinner we played "Beyond Balderdash". It appears that both my BS-detection and my BS-generation skills are only so-so; I finished in the middle of the pack. I thought my definition of "omphaloskepsis" as "medical name for an 'innie'" would trick more than one person. My explanation of "(somebody) Hodgson" as "discovered the form of lymphoma known as Hodgson's Disease" might have tricked some people if Dani hadn't had a very similar idea. Oops. It's a fun game.
Sunday we visited a high school friend and her husband. This is someone with whom I was close 25 years ago -- but we basically have nothing in common now. I am not especially interested in a relationship with them, but she is with me so I've been going along with it. And this time they did not try to convert me to Christianity by mis-quoting the bible like they did last time, so that was a success. We chatted mostly about things that do not matter, showed them how to put their computer into power-saver mode and how to hang up their modem without rebooting (!), and left a few hours later. (They have gotten onto the net, which means they are now believing and forwarding all the folklore and hoaxes that have been going around for years, but there didn't appear to be any way to really teach them there. Another time, perhaps.)
Sunday dinner was very nice. The secret of the chili was apparently cumin; I must remember this. (It was a turkey -- well, chicken in this case -- chili with beans and without tomatoes.) Yum!
After dinner we played "Beyond Balderdash". It appears that both my BS-detection and my BS-generation skills are only so-so; I finished in the middle of the pack. I thought my definition of "omphaloskepsis" as "medical name for an 'innie'" would trick more than one person. My explanation of "(somebody) Hodgson" as "discovered the form of lymphoma known as Hodgson's Disease" might have tricked some people if Dani hadn't had a very similar idea. Oops. It's a fun game.