My exciting life

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On tapestries I play a few glamorous characters in shiny plastic cloths, and cloaked in other sorts of dubious prestige and exiting social lives. They hang out in dance clubs and sip fruity cocktails while flirting with people and ultimately getting laid, mostly a few times a night with more than one partner at once. (not lately, but usually)

Tonight in my real life I played national parks monopoly with my sister, her boyfriend and my brother. Then we all did a shot of tequila and played Guitar Hero 2. We didn't have the materials to do tequila shots properly, oh no. We had no lime. In fact the only citrus available was a moldy orange, which we tossed out. We used table salt, and lemon juice out of a little squeeze bottle which we use for cooking. That was fine though, because we only had enough tequila for each of us to have one shot anyway. My sister found the sensation of becoming instantly drunk (or at least buzzed) hilarious, and I mentioned that subsequent shots just taste bad and you don't notice yourself getting any drunker until you try to stand. So we were out of tequila after that, but we all balked at the idea of continuing our little caper with the bottle of Bourbon. Directly afterward I completed Deathklok's "Thunder Horse" track in Guitar Hero 2, and in the manner of one of the characters from Metalocalypse noted to the others "I cants not play fast. It's like physically unpossible!"

So... I just thought I would relate that. We don't normally drink for no good reason, no, we were driven to it by the absolute tedium of trying to complete a game of monopoly. And then there were video games. I spent the rest of the night up until now playing Bookworm Adventure, which I like. . . because it's a game about spelling.

Comments

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Oooh, Bookworm Adventure may very well be the best computer game ever. Can you play it competitively, against other people?

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Unfortunately not. I guess we just have to brag about the giant words we were able to spell without any real proof. The dictionary the game uses is a little wonky. There are a lot of words I try to spell that it won't accept, and even more odd letter combinations that do work that I had no idea were words! It doesn't seem to like proper nouns like states or cities. It accepts a very limited number of ancient deity's names, which is quite confusing. I'm not sure where they draw the line there. Why will they accept Bast but not Odin isn't Bast a few orders more obscure? And then there is the selection of non-English words that it will accept which is always a roll of the dice. I guess the rule of thumb there is whether or not it has ever been in common usage in English. Dadaist worked (I think that's anglicized though), but I find myself spelling a lot of German words to try to get rid of consonants, but it rarely accepts them.