Adventures in Domesticity: Checkers

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Checkers

Is checkers really that hard or should I just not play games before I've had my morning Coke Zero? Wild Man just beat me with minimal effort. So, now I'm in the losers bracket in our double elimination tournament set up by Ga'hoole Girl. Alas!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: I think the Zero in Coke Zero means Zero percent of anything that might be good for you.

-ccc; 11:51 AM

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