Winning

CARD SHARKS: We love playing games, especially games that involve multiple nuances and multi faceted strategy. Munchkin is one such game. Recently, Annabelle came loaded for bear, and brought her own (pony) player instead of accepting one of the game issued playing pieces. 

It was an epic battle. Look at all the cards in front of each of us. So many things to be considered on each and every turn. 

In the end, we were all just one square away from victory, but it was pony ueber alles. Congratulations, Annabelle. 

PUBLIC BROADCASTING FTW:  Last night, we watched two terrific shows on PBS. The first was "The Great Math Mystery." The hour-long show contemplated the question: "Is math invented by humans, or is it the language of the universe?" The journey contemplated everything from a sunflower's spiral to the swirl of a shell to the Higgs boson discoveries. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocq8OR4OydQ

During the show, when the Platonic solids were being introduced, a super interested Annabelle implored, "Can you write this down?"Fortunately for me, many others have already written it down, including Wikipedia. 

The documentary showed the Higgs boson folks receiving their Nobel Prize. I laughed out loud when Annabelle said, "You make a prediction about the stuff that holds the universe together and it works? Goddamn right you get a Nobel Prize."

All in all, a wonderful 60 minutes of math fun. Highly recommended.

After that was over, a new-to-PBS series premiered based on TED talks. This episode was filmed in 2015 in Manhattan. Presenters included Pixar's director of photography Danielle Feinberg; genomics expert Juan Enriquez; cancer researcher Paula Hammond; artist Zaria Forman; and Radiolab director of research Latif Nasser. Also: three short films, including "Bridge to the Future," "Our Place in Space" and "The Rapture."
Check out the episode here: http://www.pbs.org/video/2365700379/

SOILED: This afternoon, we spent 1.5 hours starting to get the garden plot prepped for this growing season. 

 There were So. Many.Worms. That's a good thing, right?

 Whilst digging, we found some of the leftovers from last season.

HOOPLA: March is nearly over, but the madness continues. The University of Washington Huskies have - for the first time in history - made it to the Final Four! 

CJ and Annabelle have been basketball fans since we attended the Pac 12 tournament a couple of weeks ago. Today, they worked up a sweat playing on the hoop we picked up for free and took to their school a few months back.