Should I let him win? I had “shortcake” written on my calendar for Sunday. But when I looked at it Sunday morning, it didn’t compute. I wondered how a cake could be short, and what about a tall cake? Then I remembered. It’s a father’s day tradition, strawberry shortcake at Outer Space brunch style. Yo, […]
The last time I took a picture of our weekly Scrabble game, Chris was playing two boards at a time, one with Jayn and one with Mark. This time, Daphne and Jayn played as a duo team opposite me after Daphne finished her three-way game early. I kept my lead with Jayn throughout the game, […]
This is the Scrabble game I played with a migraine aura and seven one point vowel tiles. Nah Nah got played twice as if it were a taunt. I learned that “Ruth” was a real word that means “empathy,” as in the opposite of “Ruthless.” Someone added a “T” and made it “truth.” Then I […]
From Outer Space to a warmer place. Players at work.
This is not a sewing bee. Nor is it a bridge club. It’s an overflow meeting of minds, the Scrabble kind, enjoying lunch and crunching letters at Outerspace.
Our regular photo bombers were not at our Scrabble game at Outer Space on Wednesday, but sitting right next to us was a mother and daughter who were also playing Scrabble! The young daughter became Jayn’s sidekick, lucky charm or coach. Whatever, it worked because Jayn, who claims to like losing, won the game. We […]
After not playing with me for 30 years and then being mostly home for nearly a year, it was a pandemic adjustment well made. We also did a fish and chips newsprint crossword puzzle together and we got every space filled! Nod to the Parkway Grille for the food and service! I recommend the bourbon […]
It was only the third time Joe has played Scrabble with me in the 30+ years we’ve been together. In lieu of having no New Year resolution and not being able to play during the pandemic, he asked what I wanted to do more of in the new year. ‘Play Scrabble’ was my answer. And […]
The upside of having 7 rounds of letters with only 1 point each is that all those Rs, Ts, and Es make it easier to make a SCRABBLE (worth 50 extra points), especially if you have an S (also only worth one point). And, a SCRABBLE (or what some call a BINGO) is a long […]
We had one board, two Official Scrabble Dictionaries and three free look-ups. “Do you want the new or older one,” he asked one of the players who wanted to look up a word, “the one with the dirty words in it or the cleaned up one?” He had the 3rd edition that had swear words […]
They Have a new Black IPA at the Buffalo Mountain Brewery. It’s good, part stout, part IPA, and named Get the LED Out, after Led Zeppelin, my once favorite band that I saw in concert before they were famous, and after that as well. I was winning the game before I drank the beer, and […]
