Trivia!

Tried something fun and new last night... patgreene introduced me to her pastime of sports-bar trivia, which you play via a console while watching a TV screen in a TGIF-like restaurant. There are three levels of competition: the players in a given restaurant against each other; all players across the nation against one other; and then the restaurants as "teams" against other restaurants.

Pat and I both played; brian1789 took his own delight in making cheerfully teasing commentary regarding our responses ;-) Pat is a trivia whiz (she's been on Jeopardy!) and she consistently scored high, winning most rounds in our restaurant, and placing in the top 12 to 26 (of about 10,000 people) nationally on various rounds.

I had a definite learning curve, and lagged in more or less last or second-to-last place in our restaurant for the first three rounds - but I gradually caught on to the strategy of how to play, and in the 4th round I placed 2nd in our restaurant (behind Pat, of course), and 99th nationally! Pat and I speculated that the guys over at the bar must have been getting tipsy and off their game by that point, as they were partaking of spirits while she and I were tossing back multiply-refilled mugs of caffeine.

I'd definitely like to try that again sometime. Meanwhile, some pics -- sorry about the blurriness --

     

We've been kittened...

This is Lancelot, a kitten that our household found in our backyard. As you can see, he's getting less feral by the day ;-)

We're not sure if we'll be keeping him or adopting him out, but his close kitten relatives over at simplykimberly's place are definitely up for adoption... see photos here and here!