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Good night, Grandma JJ.
Mary Louise Benda (née Mary Louise Jeffery)
(29 June 1928 - 02 June 2011) -
Power Grid Japan.
I've played two games now of Power Grid on the Japan board. The first game was a two-player game with a modified deck (added 12 cards from the green deck, then removed 20 at random) on the middle three regions. I lost, $104 to $67; we both powered 21 cities the final turn ( Read more... ) -
Anonymous Benefactor Is Anonymous
It appears I have access to A Few More Icons now.
I have no idea who caused that, but thank you. -
A map for ambelies
I haven't put the rivers or the terrain in, but I threw this map together this afternoon. I based the city size solely on Census data: 20000-49999 was a Small city, 50000-94999 was a Medium city, and 95000+ was a Major city.
Iowa map (PDF, 100K) -- printed 7 pages wide by 4 pages high -
I says to the MTD, I says:
I wanted to suggest a potential improvement to the way schedule information is accessed on your website, a sort of integration of the Maps/Schedules page and the Trip Planner ( Read more... ) -
The state of things.
It's 19:00 on Wednesday, 02 February. According to the bulletin board at the park, there's a neighborhood meeting now. I would have thought that if they'd cancelled it, they would have posted a cancellation notice on the sign. Jenni assumed that it wasn't happening, and so didn't try to go ( Read more... ) -
The Lead
Looking at my phone, I see the Jets have the ball in Indianapolis territory. I relay this to Jenni, noting that the Jets could take …
… the lead.
Jenni's response: "The [perfect fifth jump up in pitch] lead!"
Cue me laughing very muchly.
If you don't get the joke, go listen to Episode 30 of the Red Panda Adventures from Decoder Ring Theatre. And don't ( Read more... ) -
I'm different.
Just occurred to me that I'm definitely the only married person in this bar.
That quote last night, from an old friend of mine who was at Joe's Brewery in Champaign, sticks out to me as an attestation of how different I am. I'm disinclined to go to bars to begin with -- not opposed per se, particularly since the Smoke-Free Illinois Act of 2007 ( Read more... ) -
Cranberry sauce
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 12oz package cranberries
Mix sugar and water in a deep skillet; heat just until boiling, stirring frequently to ensure sugar is dissolved. Add cranberries to pan; continue to boil for about 12 minutes, stirring frequently to ensure even cooking. (NOTE: individual cranberries may explode during cooking.) Pour mixture into ( Read more... )
