Day: January 14, 2025

I had a good laugh when I received this over text message the other night!  I guess Sierra is getting pretty good at making her own memes and sending them to me?

We were playing a card game called Pair Them Up with involves pairing up cards with socks on them.

I believe I ended up winning four games in a row and then it was bedtime.  She couldn’t believe I kept winning and then I received this picture on my phone and laughed.

I did go to her and explain that I have witnessed her legitimately beat me in a few games in my life, the first being 7 Wonders Duel which really surprised me since it’s a fairly strategic game that I still hadn’t wrapped my head around.

After that day I decided to not let her win anymore and I explained that to her.  At 8 years old, she has proven to me that she doesn’t need me to let her win anymore but I did say that if she wanted me to let her win games again, I could certainly do that.  But she declined the offer and went to bed still upset that she wasn’t winning any games.

Life is rough!

I should start letting her win regardless because she’s the only one in the house that proactively comes to me and says “Do you want to play a game?”  It’s my favourite thing to hear in the house!

I read quite a bit in my 20s because I was taking the bus to work every day.  Nowadays I don’t read a lot.  That doesn’t stop me from building up my library and Vero comments on it once in awhile.  “Do you even READ any of these books?”

I decided to start chipping away at the backlog of books.

Patrick Stewart’s autobiography kept my interest.  He had a way of writing that kept me engaged and coming back for more.  50% of the book is about his life in theatre work, 20% is about Star Trek/X-Men stuff.

Some stories that really caught my interest:

– He grew up quite poor.  For bath nights once a week, him and his brother would haul the bathtub up from the basement, set it by the fireplace and when the bath night was done his brother would have to bring up a rubber hose from the basement and siphon the water out of the bathtub which was disgusting.

– One time Patrick Stewart was at a restaurant and in walks Paul McCartney with Ringo Starr.  He had met Paul before but not Ringo.  They end up chatting together and at one point Paul says “Hey!  We have Sir Patrick, Sir Paul and Sir Ringo!  We are the knights of the round table!”

All in all, an entertaining read, especially if you have a bit of interest in how life was over in England and life as an actor.