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01/24/2011 18:47 #53490
Cat on turtleCategory: pets
01/23/2011 21:21 #53486
No cheating ;-)Category: friends
Qwirkle with 4! 204, 82,175, 170
heidi - 01/24/11 17:01
I don't know! Hyatt's has it and I was just in there last week. I think I was feeling poor from not having worked in December.
I don't know! Hyatt's has it and I was just in there last week. I think I was feeling poor from not having worked in December.
puddlediving - 01/24/11 16:30
and why do you not have a copy of this game yet? ;)
and why do you not have a copy of this game yet? ;)
terry - 01/24/11 10:12
nice one for 4 people. very pretty and quite efficient :p
nice one for 4 people. very pretty and quite efficient :p
01/18/2011 18:58 #53454
Stupid girl partyCategory: friends
Married straight women with kids love to have these stupid parties (variations on the classic tupperware party). This time it's purses and jewelry. Tacky gaudy jewelry. Purses? Ew. How to torture a heidi. However, Jill's new addition is gorgeous. Kelly & i introduced her to ikea :-)
Her husband found this awesome vintage phone booth. It functions as their home phone. The light turns on when you close the door.
Her husband found this awesome vintage phone booth. It functions as their home phone. The light turns on when you close the door.
metalpeter - 01/29/11 14:54
The Phone Booth Is Pretty cool..............
In Terms of Parties Maybe they will have a cookie Party heard those are fun no one ever talks about the sex toy parties though but I bet those are blast to.... My point being is that yeah some of those parties are lame but some of them are fun but you have to put up with the one to get the other... I have also heard that often at book clubs people read books then drink wine and talk about other stuff more then the books but not sure if that is true or not.......
The Phone Booth Is Pretty cool..............
In Terms of Parties Maybe they will have a cookie Party heard those are fun no one ever talks about the sex toy parties though but I bet those are blast to.... My point being is that yeah some of those parties are lame but some of them are fun but you have to put up with the one to get the other... I have also heard that often at book clubs people read books then drink wine and talk about other stuff more then the books but not sure if that is true or not.......
heidi - 01/21/11 10:14
It's radiant floor heat, so the costs are less than usual. You can see the phone booth in the back of the first picture - it's in the dining room. The dining room table is a reclaimed part of a bowling alley. The ceiling is redwood planks salvaged from a building Shane worked on last year - stuff you couldn't get for less than $25/board foot. The floors are bamboo.
It's radiant floor heat, so the costs are less than usual. You can see the phone booth in the back of the first picture - it's in the dining room. The dining room table is a reclaimed part of a bowling alley. The ceiling is redwood planks salvaged from a building Shane worked on last year - stuff you couldn't get for less than $25/board foot. The floors are bamboo.
tinypliny - 01/21/11 02:44
heh, too bad it's not blue (think TARDIS!)
And wow, heating must cost a lot with such high ceilings...
heh, too bad it's not blue (think TARDIS!)
And wow, heating must cost a lot with such high ceilings...
paul - 01/19/11 19:10
That phone booth is freakin' awesome.
That phone booth is freakin' awesome.
01/16/2011 03:31 #53447
An even awesomer game of qwirkleCategory: friends
Close to maximum efficiency. Final score was within 2 points for two players.
tinypliny - 01/21/11 02:46
Still... sounds complicated. Maybe my capacity to process things is shrinking as well as my memory. Nice combo.
Still... sounds complicated. Maybe my capacity to process things is shrinking as well as my memory. Nice combo.
heidi - 01/16/11 14:49
(e:paul), you're trying to get the most points by creating sets of six. Achieving a set of six is called a qwirkle and gives 12 points. Other plays are scored by how many pieces you've connected to, in scrabble style - you can connect some in each direction. If you played the green four-point star in the lower right of the board, you'd get six points. Each player has six tiles in front of them (like the usual seven scrabble tiles) and replenishes up to six after each turn. You have to match either color or shape, but not both, and any link can't have a duplicate (like you can't add a red four-point star to the line after the green four-point star in the lower right). That's it - very simple rules. I'm more interested in creating pretty patterns than scoring lots of points, but in this game, those go together - the more densely packed things are, the more points are possible, although they may not accrue to me, and I can be pretty easily thwarted and predicted. We each scored just shy of 300 in this game, which is more than twice any of the scores that were left in the box. There weren't any other two-player games to compare to, but even a three-player game didn't crack 150.
(e:paul), you're trying to get the most points by creating sets of six. Achieving a set of six is called a qwirkle and gives 12 points. Other plays are scored by how many pieces you've connected to, in scrabble style - you can connect some in each direction. If you played the green four-point star in the lower right of the board, you'd get six points. Each player has six tiles in front of them (like the usual seven scrabble tiles) and replenishes up to six after each turn. You have to match either color or shape, but not both, and any link can't have a duplicate (like you can't add a red four-point star to the line after the green four-point star in the lower right). That's it - very simple rules. I'm more interested in creating pretty patterns than scoring lots of points, but in this game, those go together - the more densely packed things are, the more points are possible, although they may not accrue to me, and I can be pretty easily thwarted and predicted. We each scored just shy of 300 in this game, which is more than twice any of the scores that were left in the box. There weren't any other two-player games to compare to, but even a three-player game didn't crack 150.
paul - 01/16/11 14:23
What are the rules?
What are the rules?
01/15/2011 21:46 #53443
Eating habits of the picky poodleCategory: pets
Nisha likes Kibbles & Bits, but only the bits. She'll leave the kibbles in her bowl until she gets _really_ hungry. This is like time lapse photography of her food dish.
Day 1 before feeding
Full bowl
Day 2
Day 1 before feeding
Full bowl
Day 2
tinypliny - 01/21/11 02:48
Hilarious - what is the composition difference between the things she eats and the things she leaves out?
Hilarious - what is the composition difference between the things she eats and the things she leaves out?
lauren - 01/19/11 09:56
This is too funny, because Ralphie does a very similar thing, except we feed him with this little ball that is hollow in the middle. You put the food in the ball and has to push it around for the food to come out, except he eats all the light brown food and doesn't like the darker stuff, which we think is harder for him to chew on, so there are little black food particles all over my house that he won't eat!
This is too funny, because Ralphie does a very similar thing, except we feed him with this little ball that is hollow in the middle. You put the food in the ball and has to push it around for the food to come out, except he eats all the light brown food and doesn't like the darker stuff, which we think is harder for him to chew on, so there are little black food particles all over my house that he won't eat!
heidi - 01/16/11 14:38
(e:libertad) - I got her kibbles & bits because my aunt had it for her dog and Nisha liked it -I hadn't thought very hard about it because Nisha's not with me much, but yeah, I'm going to get her some good food. I recently switched China Cat's food to something much higher quality and she loves the food, her coat is gorgeous, she lost a little weight, and she's got much fewer hairballs. At A's, Nisha just gets whatever the household buys. A's dog is large so they go through food very quickly.
(e:libertad) - I got her kibbles & bits because my aunt had it for her dog and Nisha liked it -I hadn't thought very hard about it because Nisha's not with me much, but yeah, I'm going to get her some good food. I recently switched China Cat's food to something much higher quality and she loves the food, her coat is gorgeous, she lost a little weight, and she's got much fewer hairballs. At A's, Nisha just gets whatever the household buys. A's dog is large so they go through food very quickly.
paul - 01/16/11 14:26
The tortoise used to be like that but now that he is older he is less picky. That and for the last year I started mushing all his food together.
The tortoise used to be like that but now that he is older he is less picky. That and for the last year I started mushing all his food together.
libertad - 01/16/11 09:35
I loved their old commercial, just loved it. I feel like I wrote about it before but I can't remember. :::link:::
Won't she eat any other kind of food? The first two ingredients are corn and soybean meal. An animal protein should be the first ingredient as dogs are primarily carnivorous. There are lots of very decent foods out there that don't necessarily cost a lot. PETsMART has a brand of their own (I hate them) that has corn in their food but it follows chicken, chicken meal and brown rice. :::link:::
I loved their old commercial, just loved it. I feel like I wrote about it before but I can't remember. :::link:::
Won't she eat any other kind of food? The first two ingredients are corn and soybean meal. An animal protein should be the first ingredient as dogs are primarily carnivorous. There are lots of very decent foods out there that don't necessarily cost a lot. PETsMART has a brand of their own (I hate them) that has corn in their food but it follows chicken, chicken meal and brown rice. :::link:::
cute cat
LOL
I guess a little bit of tortoise can even make a cat cute ;)