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FUN & GAMES & WORK:  Our weekend was a mixed bag. Saturday found us back in West Seattle, going on round 38 or so with Rick's 80 year old, abused wood floors. We made our final patches, one painstaking square inch at a time.

The stain was a lovely, dark color called "Kona" per the Varathane label. Once the staining was done, it was time for the (stinky) polyurethane. Rick was pretty much on his own for that. That meant we had Sunday off!

We decided to play a few board games to relax and unwind. We headed to Chuck's Central District to do just that.  First we played Dixit Jinx, which is fun, fast paced and requires sharp communication skills.  I won that game. :)

Next up it was Pass the Pigs: Pig Party. On each turn you roll 'dice' that are actually little plastic piggies, and you get X number of points depending on how they land. You can keep rolling as long as you like (at the peril of losing all points accumulated during your turn), or stop when you want.

We were playing to 100, and my strategy was trying to get 20 points a roll. I was plugging along, and Annabelle had a similar strategy. CJ was having not such great pig rolling luck, and then there was Christian, would would run up serious points on each turn, only to have them wiped out when he rolled a 'pig out' (pigs land on opposite sides). However, Christian's Big Gamble paid off, and he ended up being the big boss hog!

The last game was Jenga (photo at the top of the blog). We built our tower pretty darn high, but eventually Christian made it fall down go BOOM!

Today, the floors shiny and new looking, we were back at Rick's. We installed base moulding in the living room and kitchen, hung some artwork, hung drapes, and brought furniture (thanks G&G) into the front room for the first time. 

It's starting to look downright homey! 

BY GEORGE: We continue to enjoy our Beatles' music class. One of the things the professor covers is who wrote and who sang what. Sometimes we get surprised. We often hop to YouTube after lectures to listen the songs just covered. Yesterday, that sent us on a George Harrison kick. We would up listening to Beatles' tunes, as well as some of Harrison's post-Beatles' music. 

I was shocked when I stumbled upon "Crackerbox Palace." I loved that song as a kid, and would have sworn it was a Pal McCartney and Wings song. What's funny, is when I sent my sister a link to it last night saying,  "Wow, it's not Paul, it's George!" she immediately replied with an "I thought it was Ringo!" I played it for CJ and asked him who he thought was singing. "John Lennon," he said, without hesitation. Poor George, we thought it was everyone BUT him. http://youtu.be/IOvnG-WTDXw

We also spent some time watching George Harrison's final known (kinda) public performance, in the VH-1 studio, back when they actually played lots of music. Harrison was there with Ravi Shankar, promoting the sitar player's new album. However, as the interview wore on, someone slipped a guitar into George's hands and he played a few tunes. 

http://youtu.be/fdSb4zddOzo