Snow and Dominion with the Family

Today was an incredibly snowy day. Not a blizzardy day, mind you. In fact, the sun came out about halfway through the day and there was hardly any wind when there was snow. But snow strongly marked today's "theme" if you will, because the first half of it involved pushing and shoveling it around. The Northeast is good for that kind of thing.

My aunt and uncle are here this week from Illinois. They usually get their own snow, but we're sharing with them while they're here. My uncle apparently LOVES to push snow around, and did so with his bare arms to get it off his car (though he did switch to shovels when it was time to scrape it out from around the car and dig out the path to my grandma's house).

Most of the rest of this day involved avoiding being outside for the rest of it in one way or another. Team Fortress 2 took up some of that time, and I swear that in public servers, there's always one side that is either so skilled or so cheating that it doesn't matter what the other side does, as the side with more skilled and/or cheating players will win, and people who are just "average" don't really have anything to add most of the time. Private servers wouldn't help much, since the players are usually all skilled.

Now for the second part of my blog post - Dominion. Dominion is one of those games that you break out when someone's coming over to visit and you want to do something interesting for an hour or so that doesn't involve talking about politics or books or movies or any of the other things that will enrage half the people in the room and/or alienate everyone who has no idea what's being talked about. (I should read more books anyway, but I digress) My Aunt and Uncle play this game all the time, and it shows in how thoroughly they've beaten us the two times we've played it since they were here. Granted, the first time they only had my grandma and I to contend with. This time, they had myself, my other aunt, my dad and my grandma. I'm not sure if the addition of players who didn't know the rules helped or hindered their success, but they once again wiped the floor with us.

Now I'm back here in my house, hoping that my girlfriend's internet connection starts working again so I can chat with her online. There's fresh bread downstairs that my dad baked earlier today.

So despite a crushing defeat in Team Fortress 2 AND Dominion, today has been a pretty good day, marked largely by snow.