Today's sewing...

[susandennis]

2 dolls and 24 faces. I was on a roll and then Google came out with solitaire and an hour left the building. I'm trying to keep it to an hour but I think I'm losing. I'm a sucker for solitaire.

Hell, I'm a sucker for card games and it's my father's fault. The very minute my hands got big enough to hold cards, he taught me how to play gin rummy. And then he taught me the nuances of how to play well and how to trash talk. First grade interrupted my card shark career. When I couldn't find him to play gin with or my brother or sister to play Go Fish or Old Maid with, I played solitaire.

As a family, we played Yahtzee but when we couldn't find all the dice we'd play I Doubt It or hold cribbage tournaments.

In college I played bridge for beer money. After college I played tournament bridge for many years. I was part of an online gaming beta in the late 80's early 90's (1200/2400 baud dial up modem) called Sierra Online. I played bridge there, canasta and I think some cribbage.

And then Windows included Solitaire on the computer. Holy moly. I probably tossed at least a year or two towards that effort. Today, the minute I saw what Google had done today, I was a goner. Sigh.

Comments

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

Solitaire is such a great game, my aunt taught us several versions of it when we were little kids. I still prefer to play it with real cards, though.

[susandennis]

Oh gosh, not me. Life is too short to waste any of it shuffling and dealing - at least for me!

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

I've just always had a thing for the feeling of cards in my hands. I love them!

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

I laughed about your solitaire addiction. I learned to add by playing cribbage with my Grandpa. I played yahtzee with my Grandma, and I think we also played it when camping. I may have wasted half a year playing euchre and crazy eights in my high school cafeteria during lunch and spares. My Grandma also taught me a number of solitaire games, and that addiction was fuelled when I discovered them on my computer. I still play at least a few games a day.

[susandennis]

Euchre was maybe the only card game on the face of the earth that I never played once.

Maybe the attraction besides the obvious is the little dance with our childhoods. Sweet.