Aquarius quest, etc
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magidThe weather was beautiful yesterday, and I utterly failed to get in a bike ride. I attempted to make up for it by walking to the soup lesson (a success :-), then on to Davis Square afterward.
The goal: to acquire Aquarius, finally. I'd asked for it to be ordered, and last time I'd checked in, it hadn't arrived. I walked up the stairs to find... no copies of Aquarius, yet again. I ask the guy behind the counter, and he said it had been ordered, and would've already arrived. He'll order it again. Um, how could it have sold out so quickly? Apparently, this is not a game the owners think will sell, so they only order one or two at a time. Excuse me? Maybe you could go out on a limb and order three or four, when you know you've already got a certain sale with someone's request? I was nice and polite, but didn't buy the other game I'd thought about getting; I'd already decided it was based on getting Aquarius. I'd prefer to support the cool gaming game store, but it's a bit annoying that I've been there three times in the last month looking for a game they ostensibly carry, and still don't have a copy.
So I consoled myself by going around the corner to MacIntyre & Moore, where I succumbed and got four books (but they were all discounted! Look! Bargains!).
Friday night was the pi day party, and there was much pi-ification (as so many others have already noted). Eleven pies (two of which I could eat :-), pi-stachios, the movie Pi (well, the symbol, but I'm not up on which code gets me that Greek letter) playing in the background (studiously ignored by those not wanting to see disturbing violent stuff), a pi-themed Boggle board, a pi-song and a pi/pie-poem. I had a chance to talk to people in person, not just read their LJ posts :-). Thanks to Queue for hosting, and for the yummy strawberry pie.
I find it almost inconceivable that we might be at war in the next few days. Almost no one I know is in favor of it, there are demonstrations and vigils against it, and it seems to make no difference. The political machine grinds on. I wasn't in the States for the last Gulf War, so I don't know how different this is: was there so much opposition? Would I feel that things were so clearly not enough to justify a war before other wars we've gotten into? I don't know. I like to think that some of the others would've felt clearer to the generic person-in-the-street, but I just don't know. Certainly, the fighter pilot who spoke Friday knew he wanted to join up to do his part in a war he felt strongly about, but he's only one data point; was he typical? I don't know.
And I sit here on Ta'anit Esther (the fast of Esther), the dawn-to-dusk fast that is the prelude to the holiday of Purim, a remembrance of the three-day fast the Jews had before Esther's approach to the king to avert disaster for the Jews. There still was fighting, in the end, but more in self-defense, and the "good guys" won. I so wish things were clearer now.
In today's NY Times, there was an article about a new trend in private girls' schools, teaching financial literacy (here. It's a trend that I hope is able to spread to more schools, since apparently a lot of high school seniors already have credit cards (!), and the average college student runs up $3000 in credit card debt/month. Even if this number is too high (I so hope it is), it's still pretty sobering. The girls getting these lessons have a much clearer idea of how money works, in a lot of ways that I'd've enjoyed learning about.
Thought for a themed meal: only food from Farmer Boy (probably could've even had a pie party based only on pies in that book!)
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The goal: to acquire Aquarius, finally. I'd asked for it to be ordered, and last time I'd checked in, it hadn't arrived. I walked up the stairs to find... no copies of Aquarius, yet again. I ask the guy behind the counter, and he said it had been ordered, and would've already arrived. He'll order it again. Um, how could it have sold out so quickly? Apparently, this is not a game the owners think will sell, so they only order one or two at a time. Excuse me? Maybe you could go out on a limb and order three or four, when you know you've already got a certain sale with someone's request? I was nice and polite, but didn't buy the other game I'd thought about getting; I'd already decided it was based on getting Aquarius. I'd prefer to support the cool gaming game store, but it's a bit annoying that I've been there three times in the last month looking for a game they ostensibly carry, and still don't have a copy.
So I consoled myself by going around the corner to MacIntyre & Moore, where I succumbed and got four books (but they were all discounted! Look! Bargains!).
Friday night was the pi day party, and there was much pi-ification (as so many others have already noted). Eleven pies (two of which I could eat :-), pi-stachios, the movie Pi (well, the symbol, but I'm not up on which code gets me that Greek letter) playing in the background (studiously ignored by those not wanting to see disturbing violent stuff), a pi-themed Boggle board, a pi-song and a pi/pie-poem. I had a chance to talk to people in person, not just read their LJ posts :-). Thanks to Queue for hosting, and for the yummy strawberry pie.
I find it almost inconceivable that we might be at war in the next few days. Almost no one I know is in favor of it, there are demonstrations and vigils against it, and it seems to make no difference. The political machine grinds on. I wasn't in the States for the last Gulf War, so I don't know how different this is: was there so much opposition? Would I feel that things were so clearly not enough to justify a war before other wars we've gotten into? I don't know. I like to think that some of the others would've felt clearer to the generic person-in-the-street, but I just don't know. Certainly, the fighter pilot who spoke Friday knew he wanted to join up to do his part in a war he felt strongly about, but he's only one data point; was he typical? I don't know.
And I sit here on Ta'anit Esther (the fast of Esther), the dawn-to-dusk fast that is the prelude to the holiday of Purim, a remembrance of the three-day fast the Jews had before Esther's approach to the king to avert disaster for the Jews. There still was fighting, in the end, but more in self-defense, and the "good guys" won. I so wish things were clearer now.
In today's NY Times, there was an article about a new trend in private girls' schools, teaching financial literacy (here. It's a trend that I hope is able to spread to more schools, since apparently a lot of high school seniors already have credit cards (!), and the average college student runs up $3000 in credit card debt/month. Even if this number is too high (I so hope it is), it's still pretty sobering. The girls getting these lessons have a much clearer idea of how money works, in a lot of ways that I'd've enjoyed learning about.
Thought for a themed meal: only food from Farmer Boy (probably could've even had a pie party based only on pies in that book!)
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Date: 2003-03-17 09:13 am (UTC)It is the Age of Aquarius. At least, I want to be able to play Aquarcassonne again, and having given Aquarius to my cousins while on vacation, I am currently unable to do that.
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Date: 2003-03-17 09:33 am (UTC)ShitOutofLuck.
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