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velvetpage ([personal profile] velvetpage) wrote2005-04-30 12:32 am

Euchre, anyone?

Anyone in the Hamilton area, or near enough and willing to drive, who wishes to play Euchre against myself and [livejournal.com profile] wggthegnoll, we would be very, very interested in playing you.

Also, if anyone happens to know of any euchre tournaments in the immediate area, that would be really cool.

I've missed card games the last few years. I used to play euchre pretty much constantly in high school and university. I was an accomplished deck-stacker and had a standard arsenal of partner signals with my group of friends - different depending on who the partner was, of course. I've lost many of those skills. I doubt I could stack much more than one card for myself and maybe one for my partner at the moment. That doesn't matter if I'm playing against people who aren't going to cheat. In university, of course, it's not cheating unless you get caught.

But Piet doesn't care much for card games, my best friend Melissa lives in Brampton now, and I'm no longer seeing most of the SOCS people from university, so I don't have anyone to play euchre with. Even my family doesn't play much anymore. We're too busy chasing toddlers, or there aren't enough of us who want to play, or something. So my card decks languish in the drawer of the microwave cart, still virgin, still unmarked by the half-deck discoloration that is the sign of a well-used euchre deck. It's tragic.

I'm going to bed now. Good night.
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[personal profile] thebitterguy 2005-04-30 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
You can come over to our house today. Cindy's having a bunch of people over to play Euchre. There will be BBQ.

[identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com 2005-04-30 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't know you guys played Euchre! Cool!

Unfortunately, life is rather insanely busy this weekend. It'll have to wait. But I'll keep it in mind.

[identity profile] wggthegnoll.livejournal.com 2005-05-04 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
As I mentioned before, outside of weddings and funerals this is about the only thing that will get me into a church basement. Hopefully we'll find a venue this summer, hopefully on a weeknight or something like that.

[identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com 2005-05-04 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Summer would be good. I'm too busy to sneeze just now, but summer would be very nice.