We've Stretched The Rules A Little Bit (Day 3522 - 7/17/19)

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Mallory prepared a cheese tray, a bowl of grapes, and a bowl of carrots for appetizers. Stephen talks about the air duster spray on the counter. The cap for the air duster spray broke during the move, so the spray became unusable. However, you can't throw away cans of pressurized air so they have both been gradually releasing the pressure every day by sticking a pencil in the hole. They can't relieve the pressure all at once because it's dangerous since canned air is a toxic poison that is not meant to be inhaled. Mal also prepared ingredients for tacos, chips and salsa, and the brownies she baked yesterday.

Roland, Dan, Austin, Nikki, and Lindsey came over for Lunch Bunch. Lindsey was only there for 30 minutes since she had to get back to work, while everyone else had the day off so they could stay longer. They all played Unstable Unicorns which they also played when Emile and Masae visited in January. Stephen says that it's a lot harder to play with 6 people compared to with 4 people. Roland won by getting a lucky draw. Then, they talk about how Stephen and his college friends tried playing Axis & Allies, but realized that they would never finish it so they just gave up. Austin says that he also played Axis & Allies in college and they would just leave the board on a table and just continue playing whenever they felt like it.

Lindsey came back after she finished work. They are playing Hanabi and they have 19 points. If Dan picks the correct card out of 4 cards, then they would end the game with 20 points. Otherwise, their points will completely drop to 0. Dan already knew the most recent card he picked wasn't the correct one, so he has a 1 in 3 chance. Nikki then asks Dan if he's looking at his cards using the vlog camera since Stephen's filming his cards. He admits he saw that a lot of his cards were blue cards. Stephen says that they have been stretching the rules a little, so they might as well stretch them a little more and just forget that Dan saw some of his cards.

Later, Dan and Roland just left. Stephen says that they were only planning to take today off if people were willing to stay and play games. Nikki had to leave briefly because she had an appointment for her car, but she came back. Everyone stayed so long that they also ended up eating the tacos for dinner. Stephen says that they had a lot of fun today and he would like to have days off like these where they just all get together and play games like DND or Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. He mentions that they played Pathfinder Adventure today, but they were a but rusty and some people were playing for the first time so the game went badly. Stephen then talks about how they don't usually take full days off unless they're on a trip.