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When your aunts and uncles are complaining about how hot 80 degrees is and how humid Wisconsin can be, do not, under any circumstance, scoff and flaunt your hard-won partial acclimation to Texas weather.
Or, if you must scoff, do it after the card playing is over.
It was a good trip. Sure, I had to change my card goals from “win and impress the uncles with my talent” to “please don’t let me get skunked,” but I managed to cross the skunk line in every game. Sure, a rogue shade umbrella attacked me. I’m still not sure what that was about, but I think I won and I came away with only minor scrapes.
Lessons learned. It was a good trip.
Then I came home, and may be learning yet another lesson re: offhand comments. We’ll see. I’ve said before: the gods have a sense of humor.
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You had me rolling on the “change my goals” line. That would be, uh, my life! 
Sounds like fun.
Funder, we were playing cribbage.
They also have a game called Sheepshead. The rules are like this: deal five cards. Try to remember if a 10 beats a Jack or and whether a Queen or Ace is the high card. Play. Pay out money to all the uncles. Rinse and repeat. They swear there are rules, but I haven’t seen evidence yet. I don’t even try to win that one.
On Jun 23, 2009, Funder said:
What game were you playing?
Welcome back to the South, btw. I must say the weather in Ohio is way nicer than in MS at this time of year. I tend to quietly roll my eyes when the locals whine about upper-80s as “so hot,” though!