The multiplication game

Friday

I got up at 8, having had a bit of a hard time staying asleep. I took supplements and got ready for the day. I played trombone and did exercises. I checked messages and made egg salad. Then I filled a bottle with water and went to the chapel for Math Morning.

Some of the kids had already arrived when I got there. I unlocked the chapel and went in. We assembled in the fellowship hall. I had deck of cards with 1-13 on them. I took out the 13's and shuffled the rest. I had the kids each pick two cards off the top, multiply them and announce the answer. If it was correct, they kept the cards. If not, the cards went to the next person in line to multiply. As we played several rounds, we narrowed down a set of rules. Saronna even played a round. Then I removed the 1's as well. I think next time I'll remove the 10's. I used the extra cards to give an extra point when someone knew a hard one right off without having to think it out.

At 10, we packed up and went home. I stopped at the post office to check the mail. I read messages online. I drank half of the fiber gel and laid out in the sun and read. I went in to make and eat breakfast. Then I walked to the swap shop to unlock it for someone who wanted to look for the makings of a Halloween costume.

I walked home. I watched NWNW and some other videos. Then I went to the commissary. I asked a cashier and she said they were getting paid for the next 30 days. I shopped, then checked out. Jenni was bagging. I gave her a dollar and will probably get it back when she trades 1's for 20's. She said I could pick anything in her garden.

I went home and put groceries away. I went to her garden and got cabbage leaves and broccoli leaves. I pulled some onions from my garden and went home. I opened a gopher tunnel and poured a 5 gallon bucket of water into it. I repeated it several times and also on other tunnels. No gophers came up, so either they weren't trapped by the water or they drowned.

It got dark, so I went in. I put beef, rice and sliced squash in a bowl in the toaster oven. I read e-mail till it was done. Then I prayed and ate it. I read more news. I worked on my blog. Jenni came over to exchange 1's for 20's. We talked a bit and I gave her a strawberry plant.

I went back in to finished my blog and get ready for Game Night. I took a bottle of tea and a bag of cabbage leaves and went to Michelle's house. She and I talked while Casey set up the game. Even then, we kept talking. Finally I loaded my saved game. I played through the sparse notes I had put on my phone. But there was one puzzle piece that I couldn't find anywhere and there was no going on without it.

I shut down the game at 10:50. However Michelle and I talked for some time. Casey went to bed and we kept talking. When I got home, I was disappointed to see that it was 12:30. I got ready and went to bed.