HOUSE OF GILBETRON

Calendalorious

28/08/08

“A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”

-Liz Panting (Aug. 28, 2008).

Liz’s brother is a bastard. Seriously, Chris is an evil mofo. You will never believe what that lowlife did to me and my card-playing compadres. So, I was playing a cardgame called Calendalorious. Here’s how you play. You deal all the cards in a single deck among four players. You then proceed to play counter-clockwise, with each person laying a card on a day of the month. The last person to play a card on any given month is the winner. Each player must play in suit with the preceding player, or match the denomination of the previous card for extra points and to change suits. Not a fun game.

So, I was playing with Liz, Joel, and my dad. At the end of each month of play, we all left the room for various purposes (ie to go to the bathroom, to take short nap, or grab a snack). While we were gone between rounds, Chris (that inglorious bastard), snuck into the room and added extra cards to the deck. Not so many that it was immediately noticable, just two or three at a time. After a few rounds of this, I began to notice duplicate cards showing up in Calendalorious gameplay and it made me feel angry. Livid, even. Furious! Apoplectic! I couldn’t do anything about it and wanted to find him so that I could really let him have it.

This was a dream.

Except for Liz’s quote. That was real.