Last night during Mabel I knitted up a scarf for being sold by Reality.
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11:24:18 AM,Saturday 16 February 2002
When we played Spades a lot in high school, we all learned how to count for Spades. Almost all of us also learned how to stack the bottom of the deck, and maybe the top of the deck too, if you were really talented, so that you and/or your partner would get a really good hand, and the other people would get a kind of crappy hand. The thing with stacking the deck in that sort of game, though, is that all the cards get dealt out, among four. There are four hands of cards in that will be dealt, and cutting the deck only determins who gets which hand. It's really amusing. Ah well. I will be dealing blackjack on Saturday, and then later will be waitressing. It will be amusing. I almost bartended, but I have a better idea as to how to deal blackjack than as to how to mix drinks, so...
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11:19:22 PM,Thursday 14 February 2002
The key to blackjack, as I understand it, is to count cards without looking as though that is what you are doing. Making everyone think that you aren't. Which is sometihng I find rather amusing. I've been told that, at least sometimes, they play with more than one deck, to make it harder to count. Now, I do know how to count cards, and I tend to do so when I'm playing cards, at least if I'm playing the right game. (There is little point to counting cards in Mao, for example.) Counting cards for blackjack, though, is an entirely different sort of counting cards than what I've learned to do. I learned how to count cards playing Spades, which means it travels rather easily over into Hearts and Bridge. You keep an eye out for the aces and kings, remember which were played, who is out of what suits, and you keep track of what's been played in the way of trump (or hearts, if you are playing Hearts), so you know how high up your cards are. It's all in how you play: it's part of the game. When we played Spades a lot
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11:15:22 PM,Thursday 14 February 2002
When I go home in slightly more than two weeks I want to make felafels and bread and hummus and soup and gooey yummy wonderful chocolate chip cookies...
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07:01:49 PM,Thursday 14 February 2002
It would just be damn cool to be able to say that you are a third generation folk singer.
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