things to do today

[magicicada]

• complete mini temp assignment - at home. this one's a phone/computer job.
  
• get sylvia a sippy cup. my impromptu dixie cup experiment went well. we may skip the bottle stage entirely. i'm going to see if i can find a translucent blue cup as sylvia is utterly and completely fascinated by h_postmortemus's ice glass.
  
• hunt down job(s)
  
• amuse sylvia - all day long
  
• watch sylvia like a hawk to see if the mysterious blue spots change in any way.
  
• continue the planning for sylvia's big move into her own room. who am i kidding, she'll still sleep in our bed a lot, but at least we might get a bit more sleep in the morning while she does her groove thing in the mobile.
  
• plot (evil cackling optional) sheepshead, etc.
  

Comments

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely interested, and I have another friend that could easily be persuaded to come as well. I'd suggest that it would probably be a good idea to switch to the more common diamonds-as-trump rule, just so new people can go practice on Yahoo between sessions if they want.

Then, of course, there's the question of how to pick partners: call an ace, or Jack of Diamonds. Or we could just leave that to house rules.

the partner issue

[gardenwaltz.livejournal.com]

what we have done in the past is have jack of diamonds partner. if the picker has the jack of diamonds, they can (but do not have to) call the jack of hearts. if they have both, they can call an ace. this is generally considered to be a horrific situation because it doesn't usually work as well as using one of the jacks. in addition, if a picker wants to go alone, they would just call alone.

Re: the partner issue

[gardenwaltz.livejournal.com]

argh. i would say house rules might be a good idea.

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

Growing up we always played call-an-ace, which is pretty brutal on pickers. I'd never heard of jack-of-diamonds until my brother got married, and her family uses the jack-of-diamonds rule (with call-an-ace if the picker has it). I generally prefer that now. And, of course, proving that there is no end to sheepshead variations, I've never heard of the jack-of-hearts option.

So, anyways, when do we get to play? :) I can only do weekends, as I'm currently working in Charlotte during the week, but I'm quite flexible on my weekend schedule.

sheepshead timings

[gardenwaltz.livejournal.com]

i am sending you and the others who have expressed interest email so we can all coordinate.