jasonlangel
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I thought it would be cool if we all posted what we did for new years, eve and day.
Blessings in 06
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Versatronic
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I will survive
I went to a pokerokie party. There were two or three tables of poker going on. I was at the special needs table because I don't know all the different games. I left without cashing in my chips. I figure the host spent enough money that he could have the fundage. I raided his wine supply big time.
My friend who hosted the party bought his house about a year or so ago and I was there when they had just recently moved in. I couldn't even begin to tell you how wonderful the place looked. It could easily be in a magazine. It seems all my friends, despite all being sort of left of center, have remarkable homes. I should have taken pictures of the place itself instead of the drunk people.
At one point, my friend took me into some strange room that was down a half level from the first floor. Very odd. But it was some kind of storage area for them or something. And he wanted to show me something. It was an old Westinghouse refrigerator. I figure it was from the 40's or early '50s. He had painted it a sort of harvest gold and was using it. He said he was thinking of cutting a hole in it and making a beer fridge with a tap. I think he wanted my blessing on that and I wasn't too keen on the idea of cutting a hole in that nice fridge. But what the hey.
They call it a pokerokie party because there was supposed to be Karaokie going on at the same time but people were more interested in playing poker. Somehow my friend insisted I sing Blue Suede Shoes at midnight. I never did Karaokie before and I thought it was easy, but I couldn't read the lyrics and match it with the music or anything and I sucked. It might have been because I was very drunk, though. I'm not sure how it happened, but at some point I ending up singing I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, and that was a disaster, too.
I drank too much and ended up going the wrong way on the turnpike on the way back home and the next exit was like 30 miles away. It made the trip back an hour longer than the 30 minutes it is.
I was pretty much useless, in a vegatative state all day. But it's been quiet, no phone calls, no visitors, so I watched movies and stuff all day. I did nothing productive.
I went to a pokerokie party. There were two or three tables of poker going on. I was at the special needs table because I don't know all the different games. I left without cashing in my chips. I figure the host spent enough money that he could have the fundage. I raided his wine supply big time.
My friend who hosted the party bought his house about a year or so ago and I was there when they had just recently moved in. I couldn't even begin to tell you how wonderful the place looked. It could easily be in a magazine. It seems all my friends, despite all being sort of left of center, have remarkable homes. I should have taken pictures of the place itself instead of the drunk people.
At one point, my friend took me into some strange room that was down a half level from the first floor. Very odd. But it was some kind of storage area for them or something. And he wanted to show me something. It was an old Westinghouse refrigerator. I figure it was from the 40's or early '50s. He had painted it a sort of harvest gold and was using it. He said he was thinking of cutting a hole in it and making a beer fridge with a tap. I think he wanted my blessing on that and I wasn't too keen on the idea of cutting a hole in that nice fridge. But what the hey.
They call it a pokerokie party because there was supposed to be Karaokie going on at the same time but people were more interested in playing poker. Somehow my friend insisted I sing Blue Suede Shoes at midnight. I never did Karaokie before and I thought it was easy, but I couldn't read the lyrics and match it with the music or anything and I sucked. It might have been because I was very drunk, though. I'm not sure how it happened, but at some point I ending up singing I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, and that was a disaster, too.
I drank too much and ended up going the wrong way on the turnpike on the way back home and the next exit was like 30 miles away. It made the trip back an hour longer than the 30 minutes it is.
I was pretty much useless, in a vegatative state all day. But it's been quiet, no phone calls, no visitors, so I watched movies and stuff all day. I did nothing productive.
jasonlangel
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I played cards too and had dinnner of sirloin and scallops with my dad's side. I think that made me fare pretty well at the game of scat. Or maybe it was the brie, crackers and beer, who knows. Lol
scat?
please explain
please explain
Well I put up the shelves you see on the other thread and then we headed to the casino and I left about $400 richer than when I went in. And you know I never had one drink (nor more).
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Scat
I found this online since I couldn't explain:
The Game of Scat
Cards and their value
A standard 52 card deck is used. For scoring hands, the ace is worth 11 points, the kings, queens, and jacks are worth 10, and all other cards are worth their pip value.
The value of a three card hand is calculated by adding up the value of the cards held in any one suit. So if you have three cards of the same suit, you can add up all three. If only two cards are in the same suit you can add those, or use the value of the odd card if it is higher than the sum of the other two. If you have three different suits the value of your hand is the value of the highest card in it. The maximum hand value is 31, consisting of the ace and two ten-point cards in the same suit.
Examples:
K-8-5: value 23 (sum of all 3 cards)
Q-9-8: value 17 (9 + 8)
A-6-4: value 11 (the ace is worth more than the spades)
J-7-4: value 10 (the jack)
Deal
Determine the first dealer in any manner you desire. The deal rotates clockwise with each hand. The cards are shuffled and the dealer deals the cards singly, starting with the player to dealer's left and continuing clockwise until everyone has a hand of three cards.
The next card is turned face up on the table to start the discard pile, and the remaining undealt cards are placed face down next to it to form the stock. During play, the discard pile is always kept "squared up" so that only the top card is visible and available to be taken.
Play
The player to dealer's left begins and the turn passes clockwise around the table. A normal turn consists of:
drawing the top card either from the stock or from the discard pile;
discarding one card on top of the discard pile.
Note that if you choose to take the top card from the discard pile, it is illegal to discard the same card, leaving the position unchanged. You must keep the card you took and discard one of the cards that was previously in your hand. However, if you draw the top card of the stock, you are free to discard the card that you drew onto the discard pile, leaving your hand unchanged.
Knocking
If at the start of your turn, you believe that your hand value is at least as high as your opponents can achieve with one more turn, you can knock instead of drawing a card. Knocking ends your turn; you must keep the hand you had at the start of that turn, but each other player gets one final turn to draw and discard. After the player to the knocker's right has discarded, all players reveal their cards. Each player decides which suit is their point suit, and totals up their cards in that suit.
The player with the lowest hand value loses a life. If there is a tie involving the knocker, the other player(s) lose a life, but the knocker is safe. The knocker loses if his or her score is lower than that of every other player, and in that case the knocker loses two lives. If there is a tie for lowest between two or more players other than the knocker, then both (all) of those players lose a life.
There is just one case where it is possible to pick up your own discard. This happens when there are only two players left in the game and your opponent knocks. The card you discarded just before the knock is still on top of the pile, so it is now available for you to take back if you want it - for example if you had just broken up a suit for tactical reasons you can now restore it.
Declaring 31
If after drawing and discarding, or with the cards originally dealt, a player achieves hand value of 31, they show their cards immediately and claim victory. In this case all the other players lose. A player who gets 31 can declare it even after another player has knocked; victory is immediate and all the other players lose. If it happens that two or more players get 31 on the initial deal then all the players other than those with 31 lose.
Scoring
The normal way of scoring in Scat is that each player begins the game with three pennies. When you lose a life, you have to put one of your pennies into the kitty in the centre of the table. If you knock and lose, having the sole lowest hand, you pay two pennies (if you have that many).
If someone declares 31, all the other players have to put a penny in the kitty. If someone declares 31 after another player has knocked, the knocker just pays one penny, like everyone else.
If you have no money left, having lost all three of your pennies, you are said to be "on the county" (meaning on the dole, on welfare, receiving charity from the county, etc.), or "on your face". If you lose while on the county, you are out of the game. The game continues until only one player has not been eliminated, and that player is the winner.
I found this online since I couldn't explain:
The Game of Scat
Cards and their value
A standard 52 card deck is used. For scoring hands, the ace is worth 11 points, the kings, queens, and jacks are worth 10, and all other cards are worth their pip value.
The value of a three card hand is calculated by adding up the value of the cards held in any one suit. So if you have three cards of the same suit, you can add up all three. If only two cards are in the same suit you can add those, or use the value of the odd card if it is higher than the sum of the other two. If you have three different suits the value of your hand is the value of the highest card in it. The maximum hand value is 31, consisting of the ace and two ten-point cards in the same suit.
Examples:
K-8-5: value 23 (sum of all 3 cards)
Q-9-8: value 17 (9 + 8)
A-6-4: value 11 (the ace is worth more than the spades)
J-7-4: value 10 (the jack)
Deal
Determine the first dealer in any manner you desire. The deal rotates clockwise with each hand. The cards are shuffled and the dealer deals the cards singly, starting with the player to dealer's left and continuing clockwise until everyone has a hand of three cards.
The next card is turned face up on the table to start the discard pile, and the remaining undealt cards are placed face down next to it to form the stock. During play, the discard pile is always kept "squared up" so that only the top card is visible and available to be taken.
Play
The player to dealer's left begins and the turn passes clockwise around the table. A normal turn consists of:
drawing the top card either from the stock or from the discard pile;
discarding one card on top of the discard pile.
Note that if you choose to take the top card from the discard pile, it is illegal to discard the same card, leaving the position unchanged. You must keep the card you took and discard one of the cards that was previously in your hand. However, if you draw the top card of the stock, you are free to discard the card that you drew onto the discard pile, leaving your hand unchanged.
Knocking
If at the start of your turn, you believe that your hand value is at least as high as your opponents can achieve with one more turn, you can knock instead of drawing a card. Knocking ends your turn; you must keep the hand you had at the start of that turn, but each other player gets one final turn to draw and discard. After the player to the knocker's right has discarded, all players reveal their cards. Each player decides which suit is their point suit, and totals up their cards in that suit.
The player with the lowest hand value loses a life. If there is a tie involving the knocker, the other player(s) lose a life, but the knocker is safe. The knocker loses if his or her score is lower than that of every other player, and in that case the knocker loses two lives. If there is a tie for lowest between two or more players other than the knocker, then both (all) of those players lose a life.
There is just one case where it is possible to pick up your own discard. This happens when there are only two players left in the game and your opponent knocks. The card you discarded just before the knock is still on top of the pile, so it is now available for you to take back if you want it - for example if you had just broken up a suit for tactical reasons you can now restore it.
Declaring 31
If after drawing and discarding, or with the cards originally dealt, a player achieves hand value of 31, they show their cards immediately and claim victory. In this case all the other players lose. A player who gets 31 can declare it even after another player has knocked; victory is immediate and all the other players lose. If it happens that two or more players get 31 on the initial deal then all the players other than those with 31 lose.
Scoring
The normal way of scoring in Scat is that each player begins the game with three pennies. When you lose a life, you have to put one of your pennies into the kitty in the centre of the table. If you knock and lose, having the sole lowest hand, you pay two pennies (if you have that many).
If someone declares 31, all the other players have to put a penny in the kitty. If someone declares 31 after another player has knocked, the knocker just pays one penny, like everyone else.
If you have no money left, having lost all three of your pennies, you are said to be "on the county" (meaning on the dole, on welfare, receiving charity from the county, etc.), or "on your face". If you lose while on the county, you are out of the game. The game continues until only one player has not been eliminated, and that player is the winner.
veg-o-matic
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New Year's Eve: waited for my sofa to be delivered. Watched Yogi Bear. Read.
New Year's Day: Went shopping, dropped stuff off at Goodwill. Watched Yogi Bear. Snoozed. Cooked.
Ah, yes, it's truly a Champagne Life!
veg
New Year's Day: Went shopping, dropped stuff off at Goodwill. Watched Yogi Bear. Snoozed. Cooked.
Ah, yes, it's truly a Champagne Life!
veg
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Joe, Fred, and myself:
had a fab dinner last night with Fred Nelson at "the Barn of Barrington"
It was wonderful!
Today we slept in, and hit the matinee show of "Brokeback mountain"
After the movie we picked up a bucket of KFC and came back here to eat and watch "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
Fred has never seen it and is really enjoying it!
Jack is asleep under the Christmas tree...
had a fab dinner last night with Fred Nelson at "the Barn of Barrington"
It was wonderful!
Today we slept in, and hit the matinee show of "Brokeback mountain"
After the movie we picked up a bucket of KFC and came back here to eat and watch "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
Fred has never seen it and is really enjoying it!
Jack is asleep under the Christmas tree...
jasonl
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*SPANK*
It isn't what you think it is.
Veg has Boomerang. They should've done a Tom & Jerry marathon instead.
*SPANK*
It isn't what you think it is.
Veg has Boomerang. They should've done a Tom & Jerry marathon instead.
Hmm, maybe veg is partial to bears. ;-)
jasonl
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And a spank to Bri
You said you quit drinking. now look at you
You said you quit drinking. now look at you
I went out for Chineese after a friend of mine's daughter got baptized. they switched it from after services to before sunday school, so I missed the event. But the food was great lol. And the Eve was a quiet night at home :-(
jasonl
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Not so quiet here
Fireworks were popping everywhere.
Fireworks were popping everywhere.
jasonlangel
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Spank for Bri, yeah yeah
I wanted to block out 06 anyways, lol
I wanted to block out 06 anyways, lol
whirlcool
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We watched the dogs play with the Roomba, took a nap or two, surfed the Internet most of the day. Getting ready for work tomorrrow MSP-SEA-MSP-SFO-MSP-IAD-MSP, a quick three day trip.
New Year's Eve: Awoke 11:15-ish. Had a shower, called the grandmother, then went to Houston with RJ to fetch his new DVD recorder from Circuit City, a quick spin through First Colony Mall, Home Depot (bought a 5-gal bucket), Lowe's, Garden Ridge, Best Buy (grrrr, need a USB A-A extension cable, but NOT a 10-footer for $34! Picked up Enya Amarantine). Headed home. Had leftover Colossal Cheeseburger for supper, with smashed potatoes and Maple Cheesecake (think I got the trick finally, no lumps in this one). We watched Mysterious Skin (OMG, that one's difficult). Approx 10 PM went to check on things at the day job, do a couple things for billing prep. Then went to the night job, got home about 3:45 AM. Watched an episode of Lost. Went to bed.
New Years Day: Awoke later than usual, about 12:45. Went to the day job, did billing prep. Done about 5 PM. Went to visit the grandmother. Went home. Started on another episode of Lost while making Creamy Garlic Chicken Helper and Texas Toast (frozen). Interrupted Lost to go watch Desperate Housewives @ RJ's. But it was some sort of funky season recap episode, he wasn't interested, and I don't know what's going on anyway. So we watched Eden's Curve instead. Now I'm washing a load of sheets (drained the wash water into the 5-gal bucket to get a pseudo-measurement of medium water level), and am currently typing this post ... when I really should be at the night job, but I don't feel like going tonight ... which means I have to go twice tomorrow.
Sheesh. How boring is all that??
New Years Day: Awoke later than usual, about 12:45. Went to the day job, did billing prep. Done about 5 PM. Went to visit the grandmother. Went home. Started on another episode of Lost while making Creamy Garlic Chicken Helper and Texas Toast (frozen). Interrupted Lost to go watch Desperate Housewives @ RJ's. But it was some sort of funky season recap episode, he wasn't interested, and I don't know what's going on anyway. So we watched Eden's Curve instead. Now I'm washing a load of sheets (drained the wash water into the 5-gal bucket to get a pseudo-measurement of medium water level), and am currently typing this post ... when I really should be at the night job, but I don't feel like going tonight ... which means I have to go twice tomorrow.
Sheesh. How boring is all that??
I held up a convenience store. I had no idea it was so easy to do! At long last I have a retirement plan.
angus
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New Year's Eve - up early as usual, cleaned the house, changed all the sheets and did laundry (what a surprise!!!)
Prepared my cocktail weiners in blankets and the famous Jimmy DEan Sausage dip and prepared for the card party. Sister, and a few friends came over around 5PM and everyone brought something. Set up the buffet and drinks.
Everyone ate, had some champagne and played Flinch, Mille Bornes and Would You until 10:30PM. Since it started to rain at 3:30, turned to sleet and ice at 5:30 and then all snow by 7PM, everyone was gone by 10:30.
Cleaned up, watched "What's Cooking" for a while then in bed by 11:45.
New Years Day - made a lot of phone calls, ate leftover weiners, had some neighbors in for snacks and un-decorated the house. Finished by 11:00PM
All in all not a bad New Years Weekend.
Prepared my cocktail weiners in blankets and the famous Jimmy DEan Sausage dip and prepared for the card party. Sister, and a few friends came over around 5PM and everyone brought something. Set up the buffet and drinks.
Everyone ate, had some champagne and played Flinch, Mille Bornes and Would You until 10:30PM. Since it started to rain at 3:30, turned to sleet and ice at 5:30 and then all snow by 7PM, everyone was gone by 10:30.
Cleaned up, watched "What's Cooking" for a while then in bed by 11:45.
New Years Day - made a lot of phone calls, ate leftover weiners, had some neighbors in for snacks and un-decorated the house. Finished by 11:00PM
All in all not a bad New Years Weekend.
veg-o-matic
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QUOTE:"Veg has Boomerang"
I wish! Around here, you have to have digital cable to get it.
I got the box set of Yogi Bear DVDs for Christmas. Friend of mine got Huckleberry Hound, so we're going to borrow back and forth.
Partial to bears? I'd say so!
veg
I wish! Around here, you have to have digital cable to get it.
I got the box set of Yogi Bear DVDs for Christmas. Friend of mine got Huckleberry Hound, so we're going to borrow back and forth.
Partial to bears? I'd say so!
veg
