snood

*WARNING*: If you have a tendency to get easily addicted to computer games, whatever you do, DON'T read the rest of this Blathering! I'm not kidding! Trust me!!

So Andy was right about Jeff liking the movie Cabaret despite it being a musical (he posted about this in Blatherchat a while back).

Last night, Jeff and I hung out at Andy's and Christine's. We had pizza from Amato's that was mouthwateringly good and then watched Cabaret. Great movie! Wow, Michael York looked so innocent and young back then. And wow, what a voice on Liza Minnelli. I'd heard recordings, of course, and numerous parodies.

Andy and Christine introduced Jeff to the joys of Snood. When Christine was going through cancer treatments, she asked friends to recommend anything that would help distract her from the bad stuff. A friend recommended Snood. "It's highly addictive," Christine told us.

Anyway, we watched Andy play a little bit. As you can tell from the high score list in the screen shot above, he's not quite as good as Christine. :-) It was great fun mocking his technique as we stood watching, and then (I will get you for this, Andy) he asked Jeff if he wanted to give it a try.

The pizza arrived. "I'll be right there," promised Jeff, his eyes fixed on the screen. After we got home, Jeff downloaded Snood (the Snood Web site has a free demo available for a number of platforms).

"I'm going to bed," I told him.

"I'll be right there," Jeff said, his eyes fixed on the screen. 45 minutes later...

But I can't complain; I've been there with games, and also when I start fiddling about with HTML stuff. The games are easier to control, since I just don't let myself play them during work hours. HTML-fiddling is trickier, since I can always justify the time as being work-related somehow.

Speaking of work, I sent out two queries this week, got one bite so far (I'm writing about my NaNoWriMo experience next month for a newspaper). After asking some questions on the NaNoWriMo forums, I found that doing prepwork before November IS allowed, so I've written out a basic outline of the novel I want to write. Not sure how much good this will do me, however, since in the past I've found that I always change the outline.

Hey, I just checked out the Snood Web site and found that there's a Palm version. Uh oh.

Links/News:

Congratulations to Helen (who writes as "antonlerchner" in Blatherchat sometimes) and Alec, who get married today!

Two years ago, I was sick after hanging out with kids with colds at the cottage.

Three years ago, Jeff and I were sick after hanging out with kids with colds at the cottage.

Hmmm. Jeff and I are leaving for the cottage in a couple hours. Maybe I'd better stock up on tissues and cold remedies before we leave, just to save time.

To you Canadians out there: Have a great Thanksgiving weekend!