I spent all Saturday morning and afternoon sipping coffee and writing. Rick came over about 6:00 for The Great 2008 Memorial Day and Short Notice Unemployed Backgammon Tournament And Other Foolishness Party. Steve was going to come, but got tied up at another party, and Marissa dropped in for a few minutes, but other than that it was just Rick and me to have all the fun.

But then, I didn't decide to even have a party until after karate class on Thursday night because I had already had one party for the month. Well, there's always time for a backgammon party, even if only a couple of us are there!

So, it was just the two of us banging away at the board. We stopped and had some spaghetti, finished off the final game, and then watched No Country For Old Men, which was more than disappointing as far as the reasonableness of the plot. Acting was outstanding, and overall it was just okay - or so we thought.

You'll have to excuse the poor picture quality, but the camera dude flipped the shutter thingy to the wrong setting again...

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At least the sun was out for most of the day, though there were periods of clouds that really looked like it could have rained. It probably did somewhere, but not here.

Rick arrives ready to play.

Before we got to backgammon, Rick and I went over some of the work that is assigned to Nidan 2nd Degree Black Belt level. Here is where he finds out there are 24 books on the core reading list and another 20 in the resources sections.

We're pretty serious about this backgammon stuff: we eat as we play. We never miss a beat.