SPORTS and GAMES
Singular and Joint Pursuits
I love Sudoku. I do.
My current goal is to be able to solve puzzles without writing the
answers..i.e.; entirely in my head. Gotta be good brain exercise,
right? I remember playing these silly puzzles
in Dell puzzle mags back in the 70s, when they were called "Number Place."
Glad they've shown up again. I play Scrabble or some arcade-style
game with my Gameboy
sporadically, mostly when waiting at some bureaucratic office
somewhere. People seem to find it amusing that a middle-aged lady
enjoys playing with a Gameboy. A friend has a favourite story
involving her daughter and I, with our corresponding Leapfrog and
Gameboy. Sue-boo, driving us to lunch, looked in her rearview
mirror to find me playing with the Leapfrog and little Livia playing
with my Gameboy...a 50 year old and a 5 year old with the same look of
concentration.
I also enjoy computer gaming, though I'm not really a fan of creepy
stuff jumping out at me that I have to kill. Instead, and perhaps
entirely predictably, I prefer Adventure games, a la Myst. Killing
stuff is easy, figuring out a way out of a bad situation is FAR more
fun for me. See,
all you really need to know
about me is that if it engages my MIND, I will more than likely
appreciate whatever IT is.
Word or dice games are my preference
when
playing with others - even when
playing with myself, for that matter. Peter and I
enjoy Boggle,
Scrabble, Word Yahtzee, Farkel (the dice game most often seen at
Renaissance Faires), and others.
We do like to make up our own rules, though, playing Boggle, for
example, without a time limit and individually. In otherwords, we
shake up the letters, each of us then takes a turn in finding every
possible word combination, then we read our lists aloud and cross off
all duplicates. We don't keep score with any of these games but
Yahtzee...guess it's not important to either of us. Winning
doesn't matter so much as the knowing.
I also like to watch curling (I'm a BIG fan), and play Open Bocce
Ball, though the grass in the yard rivals
that of the lumpy yard at Tofte
for unexpected hops and leaps. So far, I haven't found anyplace I
can rollerblade in town...and no, I'm not aBOUT to go to the skate park
and dodge crazy kids on skateboards. I really AM too old for
that. I've been considering getting back into sailing by finding
a captain who needs some good floating ballast, and I noticed the other
day that there's a woman's sculling crew here in town...something I
used to enjoy very much. I have absolutely promised myself that I
will learn sea kayaking now that I'm back amongst the semi-archipelago
of the San Juans, so hopefully this summer will see that happen!
CURRENT
INTERESTS
...and
links to some pages I frequent...