The power went off at 13:30 while I was waiting in my dentist’s office to get a tooth pulled.
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I met my rather ancient neighbor trundling up Ollerias looking a bit panicked, so I took her bags for her and asked her how she was. I told her she was welcome to heat up food at my house since I have a gas stove.
She said she was worried for all the young people who didn’t know how to cope without phones. I joked that they’d just start having to amuse each other and gave her a pack of candles from the stash I’d picked up.
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While all the big stores were closed, the market and all the smaller stores run by Chinese and Moroccan immigrants were going gangbusters because they can still add up with a pencil and paper, and their scales are mechanical. But Fatima - at the greengrocers - said she didn’t have any candles so I gave her a pack too.
I spent a lovely evening playing vicious candle-lit scrabble with Don, with both cats sitting like loafed sentinals on either side of the board.
It was a lovely day. #apagon
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I had completely forgotten what a shockingly aggressive scrabble player I am.
Also, no, Don, rabbit is spelled with two Bs.
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@Remittancegirl My ex-fiance's mother, a university lecturer in English Lit, hated the fact I always won at Scrabble because she was so used to beating the rest of the family!
I couldn't beat her at chess though. My god she was good at chess.
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@ApostateEnglishman People think Scrabble is about making big fancy words, but it’s really more strategic. heheh.
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@Remittancegirl Yep. It helps to have a read through the official Scrabble dictionary so you know all those strange little words that no-one believes are words - especially if they have high-scoring letters in 'em!
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And the only acceptable word that has a q with no u after it: qat
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@Remittancegirl Well Qi is a valid Scrabble word. 11 points, is it?
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@ApostateEnglishman You know… I argued that last night. But he wouldn’t accept it.
Sometimes you just have to give way with good grace.
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@Remittancegirl Okay I just looked it up. Qi is indeed a valid word in Scrabble US, Canada, Thailand and UK dictionaries.
And it is 11 points.
Perhaps a rematch is in order?
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@ApostateEnglishman Definitely! Now how can I engineer another power blackout?
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