Meet the neighbor: I was mowing my lawn last week and I finally met my neighbor. I am not one of those people who is socially graceful so I wasn't really looking forward to it. I almost got the feeling he was not looking forward to it but wanted to get it over with. He could plainly see that I was almost done with my lawn when he wandered out into his back yard and started puttering around.
We shook hands and spoke for a few minutes. When the elderly couple next door moved out, I always got the feeling they were not to happy about it. I imagined that something bad had happened and therefore they needed to move out. In talking with my neighbor, the old man wanted to move to Florida so he could play golf more (what, they don't have golf around here?). He (my new neighbor) seemed like a nice enough person. He asked me if I'd had any problems with crime because someone broke into his car. I mentioned that we rarely see any police action in the neighborhood.
But just as I'm finishing that sentence, I did happen to notice a police car stationed at a house just within sight of where we were standing. It was true that crime is not a rampant thing in this neck of the woods but stranger things have been known to happen.
Superman and the game: I had come up with an idea for a new board game. I tried to make one that was not too complex but no so simplistic. I basically stole some neat ideas from other games that I had seen or played. I wrote up instructions and rules. I showed Superman the general idea and he said "let's play it". Well, last night we tried it.
I have to say I was a little disappointed in the results. It seemed to work really good -- in theory. When I was reading through what I had written, it sounded like a really good idea. When we played it, it just wasn't there for me. Everything I thought would happen, didn't. We talked afterwards about what we could do to 'fix' it but couldn't come to any sort of consensus. I think we just need to let it stew a little and come back to it.
Rain: It's raining today. It will probably rain this whole weekend. It's gloomy.
We shook hands and spoke for a few minutes. When the elderly couple next door moved out, I always got the feeling they were not to happy about it. I imagined that something bad had happened and therefore they needed to move out. In talking with my neighbor, the old man wanted to move to Florida so he could play golf more (what, they don't have golf around here?). He (my new neighbor) seemed like a nice enough person. He asked me if I'd had any problems with crime because someone broke into his car. I mentioned that we rarely see any police action in the neighborhood.
But just as I'm finishing that sentence, I did happen to notice a police car stationed at a house just within sight of where we were standing. It was true that crime is not a rampant thing in this neck of the woods but stranger things have been known to happen.
Superman and the game: I had come up with an idea for a new board game. I tried to make one that was not too complex but no so simplistic. I basically stole some neat ideas from other games that I had seen or played. I wrote up instructions and rules. I showed Superman the general idea and he said "let's play it". Well, last night we tried it.
I have to say I was a little disappointed in the results. It seemed to work really good -- in theory. When I was reading through what I had written, it sounded like a really good idea. When we played it, it just wasn't there for me. Everything I thought would happen, didn't. We talked afterwards about what we could do to 'fix' it but couldn't come to any sort of consensus. I think we just need to let it stew a little and come back to it.
Rain: It's raining today. It will probably rain this whole weekend. It's gloomy.