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Ok...I REALLY want to share pictures of my very cool new designs...but I CAN'T because my husband has neglected to load my pics! *foot tapping impatiently* I don't dare try it myself because he has some kind of weird system...I've even tried to learn by watching him do it but he just seems to randomly click things as FAST as he can and I don't know what the hell he does.
Grr...
So instead I'll tell you about going to Canal Days with my daughter and her friend yesterday. We played a few games of chance, (which I am secretly addicted to but you never heard it from me!). We played the coolest carny game ever...mouse roulette! It was so WEIRD. There was a central turntable that looked like a roulette wheel but horizontal. The wedges, instead of being red and black with numbers, had colorful, innocuous pictures of watermelons or rainbows...you get the idea. It had plexiglas all around the outside of the wheel and holes at the end of each wedge. We all placed quarter bets on the table...you could pick symbols that corresponded to the ones on the wheel. The barker spun it (not too fast, just enough to turn it slowly) and lifted up a lid in the center and out runs a little brown mouse! The mouse sniffs around and eventually dives into a hole, and someone (sometimes a few people) wins a prize! Then the barker pulls a drawer out, snags the mouse and the whole thing starts again. The mice got rotated out every few spins, so it didn't seem particularly cruel, and we had fun cheering for the mousie to pick our symbols. I only blew five bucks there and Char's friend actually won once, so it was all good.
We also went on a few fair rides. I LOVE Tilt-A-Whirl...it's just my favorite little spinny ride. The carny folks they hired to run Canal Fest this year had really nice, well kept, liberally greased rides. I did not take this into account. I was spun within an inch of my life. Char and her friend in the next car over, were hysterically laughing at me because every time my car flashed past them I was pressed firmly against the back of it screaming "OH CRAP MAKE IT STOP!!!". Apparently that's pretty funny. I needed help getting off...couldn't walk straight for about a half-hour. But you know, I secretly loved that too. :-)
Of course there was funnel cake. The only thing better than fresh funnel cake is fresh funnel cake sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. Oh my, yes.
Anyway it was a good time even though I felt like the carny folks had taken me by the ankles and given me a good shaking, so as to dislodge every last cent I had on my person.
There is something fundamentally hilarious about allowing vermin to determine your gambling success or failure. I say, one more election like the last two and we should permanently switch to a mouse-generated voting system. Couldn't possibly be more irritating (or less random) than the currently accepted way of getting the job done.
Grr...
So instead I'll tell you about going to Canal Days with my daughter and her friend yesterday. We played a few games of chance, (which I am secretly addicted to but you never heard it from me!). We played the coolest carny game ever...mouse roulette! It was so WEIRD. There was a central turntable that looked like a roulette wheel but horizontal. The wedges, instead of being red and black with numbers, had colorful, innocuous pictures of watermelons or rainbows...you get the idea. It had plexiglas all around the outside of the wheel and holes at the end of each wedge. We all placed quarter bets on the table...you could pick symbols that corresponded to the ones on the wheel. The barker spun it (not too fast, just enough to turn it slowly) and lifted up a lid in the center and out runs a little brown mouse! The mouse sniffs around and eventually dives into a hole, and someone (sometimes a few people) wins a prize! Then the barker pulls a drawer out, snags the mouse and the whole thing starts again. The mice got rotated out every few spins, so it didn't seem particularly cruel, and we had fun cheering for the mousie to pick our symbols. I only blew five bucks there and Char's friend actually won once, so it was all good.
We also went on a few fair rides. I LOVE Tilt-A-Whirl...it's just my favorite little spinny ride. The carny folks they hired to run Canal Fest this year had really nice, well kept, liberally greased rides. I did not take this into account. I was spun within an inch of my life. Char and her friend in the next car over, were hysterically laughing at me because every time my car flashed past them I was pressed firmly against the back of it screaming "OH CRAP MAKE IT STOP!!!". Apparently that's pretty funny. I needed help getting off...couldn't walk straight for about a half-hour. But you know, I secretly loved that too. :-)
Of course there was funnel cake. The only thing better than fresh funnel cake is fresh funnel cake sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. Oh my, yes.
Anyway it was a good time even though I felt like the carny folks had taken me by the ankles and given me a good shaking, so as to dislodge every last cent I had on my person.
There is something fundamentally hilarious about allowing vermin to determine your gambling success or failure. I say, one more election like the last two and we should permanently switch to a mouse-generated voting system. Couldn't possibly be more irritating (or less random) than the currently accepted way of getting the job done.
