On good friday I, too[1], went to meet my parents

[jack]

Tomorrow is a bank holiday, isn't it?

After ascerning that it definitely was easter tomorrow, and very nearly but not quite getting my program to compile in every configeration, mum and dad picked me up from work.

Ambiguity had been kept *mostly* as decent as it had been made the last parent-visit :) and I'd done the last of the washing-up and a bit of vaccuuming the night before, so it was acceptable. I made dinner mainly from frozen components, which was quite nice though, and I think it impressed mum that I'd settled in enough that I could produce dinner for everyone without any faff. It also reminded me of two beliefs: (1) that food looks more professional if it comes in half a dozen different portions on the plate instead of a big mix and (2) any room looks tidier if you empty and clean any table and put it in the middle

Like Mornington Crescent would be, if it wasn't Mornington Crescent

Then Dad and I went to the Golden Hind and played pool. He won, but I *am* getting slowly better :) And while we were waiting for the table, and discussing money-putting-down etiquette[2]. And while we were waiting we played beggar-my-neighbour[3] and had much fun pretending it to be a game with skill, saying things like "Aha! Little did you know I was saving a jack in reserve" and "Oh no! I didn't see that coming at all!"

In fact, it was quite like mornington crescent. Which reminds me of *last* saturday, which I completely failed to spod, when we played 'London' at Owen's belated housewarming, which really is best described as "Like mornington crescent, but not" because it is a game which REALLY IS about moving dice-thrown numbers along underground tracks, trying to get to six designated stations. There was also a mao-like game, except that the new rules were predetermined of the form of 'play n cards per round' and the like.

[1] Sorry for the blasphemous joke. I couldn't resist.
[2] I described my observations as "Anyone can put the price of a game on the edge of the table and they play in that order. Whether they play a person of their choice or the previous winner is implementation defined. How many games you can by at once is undefined."[4] Does that sound accurate?
[3] Half the pack each. Always play from the top of your pile. Play alternately. But when a J,Q,K or A appears the other player plays 1,2,3 or 4 cards and you collect the whole discard pile, unless one of those cards is itself a J,Q,K or A in which case it the first player has to play 1,2..etc.
[4] Except I didn't say it in those words because I was talking to dad who isn't a C programmer. But I translated it for geekblogging :)

Comments

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

No, really, babe.

*actually screamed out loud" It looks like you might be onto a winner.

I'm just not a babe. I don't have blonde hair and tanned limbs and legs up to here; I certainly don't wander round in miniscule red swimming costumes a la Baywatch

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

*actually screamed out loud" It looks like you might be onto a winner.

Whoa, I may have overdone it there. I'll have to use 'babe' in moderation :)

I'm just not a babe. I don't have blonde hair and tanned limbs and legs up to here; I certainly don't wander round in miniscule red swimming costumes a la Baywatch

Neither do I.

OTOH, you're gorgeous enough that you *could* come across as a babe if you wanted to, if too nice to pass as a bimbo :) But I don't use it because of that, I just use it for the look on people's faces when their absolutely totally shocked :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I may have overdone it there. I'll have to use 'babe' in moderation :)

Save it for special occasions. Kinda like the Wallace and Gromit thing (I can now type the words without flinching! Hooray!) - I've become immune.

OTOH, you're gorgeous enough that you *could* come across as a babe if you wanted to, if too nice to pass as a bimbo :)

*blushes* Not really, especially with my special lemsip yellow teeth. (I know, I shouldn't use 'special' twice in the same sentence. Tough!) I swear, they must be owned by the same company as Colgate or something.

But I don't use it because of that, I just use it for the look on people's faces when their absolutely totally shocked :)

Or possibly even the screams of horror. Gotcha

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Kinda like the Wallace and Gromit thing (I can now type the words without flinching! Hooray!) - I've become immune.

Yay!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Save it for special occasions.

I'll wait until I become an evil vampire, then track you down and call you 'babe' repeatedly until you go insane, and then make you a vampire. And then you can have spike! :)

By the way, how do you feel about derivatives, such as, say, "babalicious"? :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

I'll wait until I become an evil vampire, then track you down and call you 'babe' repeatedly until you go insane, and then make you a vampire. And then you can have spike! :)

He doesn't want me. He wants Buffy *sobs*

By the way, how do you feel about derivatives, such as, say, "babalicious"? :)

OMG. You're kidding, right?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

You could have a brief fling and lots of sexual tension in the seasons after he left dru and before he fell for buffy.

OMG. You're kidding, right?

Define kidding :) I obviously would never use such a word seriously, yet I obviously would reserve the right to use it in jest every time you call me snookiedums :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

You could have a brief fling and lots of sexual tension in the seasons after he left dru and before he fell for buffy.

*squees* I'm loving that idea :)

Define kidding :) I obviously would never use such a word seriously, yet I obviously would reserve the right to use it in jest every time you call me snookiedums :)

:p Yep, I'm witty all right

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

*squees* I'm loving that idea :)

You could badger someone into writing you mary-sue fic about it :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

Great minds :) Read my latest comment.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Not really, especially with my special lemsip yellow teeth.

Well, everyone has funny coloured teeth *sometimes*. Some people just pretend they don't and make sure they're not seen when they do.

Besides, though as aforementioned, you could be, I'm not at all using it in the sense of you *being* a babe, any more than you were when you used it at me, see? :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

Besides, though as aforementioned, you could be, I'm not at all using it in the sense of you *being* a babe, any more than you were when you used it at me, see? :)

I'd love to make a 'snookiedums' comeback, but unless I make some seriously bad jokes about pool players or something, it's not going to work.

Huh

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Eh? What? Pool players? I'm missing subtle humour again, I know it. What?

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

snookiedums. snooker. pool. It's more 'cut your own throat rather than get it' humour than subtle

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah. One of them "hidden in plain sight" things :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

I stand by my 'cut my own throat rather than descend to that level' comment

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I know, I shouldn't use 'special' twice in the same sentence. Tough!

That's one of the rules of writing that you can break for ease in informal writing, though must be careful not to break in formal writing without calling it alliteration :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

:) I'll remember that one