general life stuff
May. 19th, 2004 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerYesterday I met Liza. She is cute! She's very sweet, very friendly, got beautiful eyes. Ever so snuggly. And the softest grey fur... :-)
There's a grey kitty that I and my housemates have seen at various times wandering around outside our place. I came home yesterday and she was strreched out on the boardwalk that leads from ym driveway to my door. After a bit of cajoling and cat-talk, I was able to persuade her to come over and let me pet her, at which point she didn't want me to stop! :-) I noticed she had lost some fur on her tail and that there were a couple of sores or scabs there. I went inside and asked M if she thought we should do something (the kitty didn't have a collar to say who, if anyone, she lived with). M and I agreed to consult C when she got home. C volunteered to go around and ask at various neighbors', so we snagged Miss Kitty and put her in a carrier with some food, and C started around the neighbors. Turns out kitty lives next door to us with our (sort of) newest neighbors (I don't count the people who live in Orthanc), is named Liza, and used to be an indoor cat. We returned her to her owner, who seems nice enough and who promised to get her acollar, but who really ought not to lett her out, given the foxes and racoons that live in our neighborhood.
After dinner, M and I played L5R (the Legend of the Five Rings card game) for the first time in months. It was ever so much fun. We're both a bit rusty on the rules, but we had a good series of battles and duels until I finally prevailed. :-) M's was just sort of a tossed-together Crane deck, not one she'd had an opportunity to "tune" (weed out the random cards that don't really benefit you and add in other cards that will be more helpful). Being focused on the Crane clan, it has lots of duellists and artists. I used one of the "fixed" decks I had purchased last year (fixed decks are ones that come with the same cards in every set, usually in pairs to be used for learning the game). It's a Crab deck from the Clan wars, so it's full of tough Crab warriors and nasty Shadowland monsters. (For more on L5R, see Zen Faulkes' excellent introduction to the game and its fictional background.)
Most of the local players I've been able to find on the web (a) seem a bit more competitive than we are and (b) are playing the latest edition, rather than the editions we have, so I've ordered some decks of the newest set so we can get up to speed on new rules and build some decks that we can use to play with other people locally.
If any of this sounds interesting, let me know. I'd love to introduce any of my friends to the game (to date I think I've played at least one game with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
azbound, bidger, and john_arundel), and I have enough extra cards that I'd be happy to build a few decks for people who wanted decks of their own (nothing like giving away some freebies to entice people in further, as any good drug dealer knows :-).
Tonight DC United is playing the LA Galaxy; I'm hoping that we can produce another win like last weekend, but maybe put a few more goals on the board. One is enough to win, but we need to be scoring more; a late-game slip in a 1-0 game can make the difference between a win and a tie (or even a loss!) I can't wait for Chiba Martins to get back in "healthy" squad; we're missing his size and speed up front.
There's a grey kitty that I and my housemates have seen at various times wandering around outside our place. I came home yesterday and she was strreched out on the boardwalk that leads from ym driveway to my door. After a bit of cajoling and cat-talk, I was able to persuade her to come over and let me pet her, at which point she didn't want me to stop! :-) I noticed she had lost some fur on her tail and that there were a couple of sores or scabs there. I went inside and asked M if she thought we should do something (the kitty didn't have a collar to say who, if anyone, she lived with). M and I agreed to consult C when she got home. C volunteered to go around and ask at various neighbors', so we snagged Miss Kitty and put her in a carrier with some food, and C started around the neighbors. Turns out kitty lives next door to us with our (sort of) newest neighbors (I don't count the people who live in Orthanc), is named Liza, and used to be an indoor cat. We returned her to her owner, who seems nice enough and who promised to get her acollar, but who really ought not to lett her out, given the foxes and racoons that live in our neighborhood.
After dinner, M and I played L5R (the Legend of the Five Rings card game) for the first time in months. It was ever so much fun. We're both a bit rusty on the rules, but we had a good series of battles and duels until I finally prevailed. :-) M's was just sort of a tossed-together Crane deck, not one she'd had an opportunity to "tune" (weed out the random cards that don't really benefit you and add in other cards that will be more helpful). Being focused on the Crane clan, it has lots of duellists and artists. I used one of the "fixed" decks I had purchased last year (fixed decks are ones that come with the same cards in every set, usually in pairs to be used for learning the game). It's a Crab deck from the Clan wars, so it's full of tough Crab warriors and nasty Shadowland monsters. (For more on L5R, see Zen Faulkes' excellent introduction to the game and its fictional background.)
Most of the local players I've been able to find on the web (a) seem a bit more competitive than we are and (b) are playing the latest edition, rather than the editions we have, so I've ordered some decks of the newest set so we can get up to speed on new rules and build some decks that we can use to play with other people locally.
If any of this sounds interesting, let me know. I'd love to introduce any of my friends to the game (to date I think I've played at least one game with
azbound, bidger, and john_arundel), and I have enough extra cards that I'd be happy to build a few decks for people who wanted decks of their own (nothing like giving away some freebies to entice people in further, as any good drug dealer knows :-).Tonight DC United is playing the LA Galaxy; I'm hoping that we can produce another win like last weekend, but maybe put a few more goals on the board. One is enough to win, but we need to be scoring more; a late-game slip in a 1-0 game can make the difference between a win and a tie (or even a loss!) I can't wait for Chiba Martins to get back in "healthy" squad; we're missing his size and speed up front.
