I always lose to my dad.
I don’t know how, but he always seems to end up with hands full of 5s and Js, or 8776.
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But two of those cards need to be moved to the crib!
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I was thinking:
Hand: 5 5 6 J
Cut: 7
or
Hand: 3 4 5 J
Cut: 5
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Oh, duh!!!
I think I need some coffee.
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OK, so fine, one of the other cards is the cut (not the Jack, obviously).
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It seems to be the card game of Michigan. I don’t really like playing it, though, because I count the cards subconsciously and I nearly always win. It’s boring.
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Aparently not thrown anything in the box yet.
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Here’s the trick. Find an electronic version - all the popular Phones have a version (I’m sure I own at least one for every OS) -and start to play.
Sure you don’t know what the hell you’re doing but soon the 15s coalesce in your brain and making runs is second nature.
I learned on a C=64, but the game is the same no matter the platform.
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Euchre is extremely popular in Indiana too. I learned to play in college. My sophomore year I had a dorm-neighbor whose obsession for euchre almost surpassed his obsession with watching football.
All these years later I’ve completely forgotten how to play. So let’s call that a victory. 
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my obscure card game was pinochle. i was playing a game in the dorms when three of the players all had double runs. the bidding was fierce and eventually futile.
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pinochle got me through college when I didn’t have two dimes to rub together. That and Canast(a/y)
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then you understand how particularly futile the bidding was in that hand. my partner signaling he had over 100 meld while i was holding a double run in spades and he had one in hearts. meanwhile one of our opponents had a double run in clubs. i questioned the shuffle after all was said and done.
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Just made my final tuition payment!
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I’ve been teaching myself animation for the last week with the goal of getting to the point that I could construct a cartoon with some sort of story in it rather than just little vignettes.
Behold: Bessie Vs. The Flying Saucer
The cow’s expressive range is quite limited (the UFO emotes more), and there’s no dialog, but still, there’s a lot of stuff in there.
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Checkup at the ol’ doctor. Still on a low dose med (lowest dose possible) but … my BP is back down where BP should be … 122 / 78. Near perfect. Very very very pleased. My goal is to be off it completely when my annual physical rolls around in June.
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200,000!
And I’m flying out to my fiancee tomorrow morning!
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Follow-up to an earlier post: I have now been successfully de-ported.
This time I didn’t fall asleep before the surgery and didn’t wake up singing “Comfortably Numb”. I also have to tape plastic wrap over the incision every time I take a shower but I can live with that.
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#CONGRATULATIONS!!!
No longer being a cyborg must come with mixed feelings for a Healthy Mutant.
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We’re actually moving next week. Yay to a bigger house. Yay to actually having a proper backyard. And, most importantly, yay for hiring a truck and men to help us move everything.
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I’ve stopped going around saying “Resistance is futile” and I still have recurring dreams of Alice Krige so it’s OK.
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