Hello Bloggers, I am currently at Webster Conference center with hundreds of college students. I am sitting by myself doing a blog. I feel so old. I am still dealing with a sinus cold so I have been sleeping a lot.
This week I had AI help me with the pictures. So you will see his (I am guessing he is male) comments and I will of course comment on his comments.
Claude: Chef Dmitri Pan-Holloway approaches the roaster with the calm focus of a man defusing a bomb. Legend says he once served noodles so evenly that each bowl got the exact same number of oyster crackers. He brought his own bowl. He always brings his own bowl.
Dan: Claude this is my new friend from Taiwan, Hong. We had soup for dinner and we ate at Eric's office in town because it was raining and flooding at our house. We provided the bowls.
Claude: The Lavender Coalition (Brynn, Kenzie, Tatum, and Sloane) holding their weekly meeting by the couch, agenda item #1: "Who is taking a picture of us?" Meanwhile, Marlowe at the snack table has tuned out the chaos and is conducting serious cookie-tin reconnaissance. Note the sign on the wall warning that unattended children will be given an energy drink and a new kitten. Nobody here is unattended. Probably.
Dan: the Lavender Coalition is a great name, we will just call them Lav-girls. Brenna (not Tatum) looks like she is picking her nose.
Claude: Delaney is explaining, with full hand choreography, exactly how she plans to win Board Room UNO. Corrie, in the backwards cap, has heard this speech four times and is being very polite about it.
Dan:This is actually Charis (which doesn't mean joy BTW) and Jamie. I think it looks like Jamie is saying talk to the hand.
Claude: The Arcade Delegation. Wen is three levels deep into a Springfield adventure with one knee up for maximum gaming stability, Rafael is taking on X-Men, and Hollis in the pearl-snap shirt is supervising like a foreman on a construction site. Hollis has not played a single game. Hollis is "just watching." Hollis will be watching for two more hours.
Dan: Hollis is actually named Payton, and I think he just watched true. Eric has arcade games in his office like the famed silver spoons TV show.
Claude: Peak storytelling energy. Josie in the overalls is mid-tale ("and THEN the heifer just walked right through the gate") while Margaret in the green sweater listens with the patience of a TA during office hours. Half the circle has lost the plot, and the rest are waiting for the punchline.
Dan: Claude they are just waiting for dinner, Sophie in the overalls and she is probably telling a story.
Claude: Orchestra Section Leader Matteo Ruiz-Feldman reclines like he just finished a nine-movement symphony, gripping a camo pillow for emotional support. Beside him, Grant has been scrolling on his phone since 6:15 and has not looked up. Their matching purple shirts were not planned. They will claim it was planned. It was not planned.
Dan: This is Mark and Jake (not Jacob). They are patiently waiting for food.
Photo 7: The room is set, the tables are lined up, and the mission briefing has begun. Commander Deb points at the troops with authority while the new arrivals (Tucker and Ford) stroll in with "did we miss the food?" energy. Yes, gentlemen. The food was 40 minutes ago.
Dan: Commander Deb! hahaha Deb is not her name its Commander Angie to you!
Dan: This is Judah, funny that the AI focused on his hair.
Photo 9: Beau Thackery has been told the funniest joke of the night and refuses to share it with the rest of us. He's down to two grapes and his dignity. In the background, a gentleman in a blue polo appears to be giving a sales pitch to no one in particular.
Dan:Hahaha, "Two grapes and his dignity!" keep giving that sales pitch Eric. Oh yeah Claude, that guy is not a gentlemen.
So I was dared to give Collin a bonnet, can't remember why, something about purpose on the prairie. while I was at it I gave Eric one too.
Claude: Two moods in one frame. On the left, Abigail has just spotted something unforgivable across the room (probably someone playing UNO wrong). On the right, Renata is reading a text that clearly says "can you send me the homework," and she is deciding whether to respond.
Dan: nothing to add to that.
Claude: The great Board Room UNO migration. The official rules state you play once per table and then ROLL to the next table, and this crew took it seriously. Lined up on office chairs like a bobsled team waiting for the starting gun, they're inching forward in single file, gripping their chair backs, eyes fixed on the next table like it's the Promised Land. Sloane in the back has gotten a running start and her feet are already off the ground. Meanwhile Tucker on the far right is watching this unfold with the face of a man who knows he'll be next and has made peace with it.
Dan: Claude you are way off this is not board room uno. These are just several girls doing a Conga line with office chairs.
Claude: Caleb Strand, holding his noodle bowl with one hand and pointing at the floor with the other, saying "No no no, it was RIGHT THERE." Nobody knows what "it" was. Some say a dropped Skip card. Others say a lost oyster cracker. Caleb has been searching ever since, and his noodles have gone cold. Behind him, life carries on, completely unaware of the tragedy.
Dan: This is Braden, not sure about his noodle bowl, what I am sure of is that he and the Nutter kid cheat at Uno, oh yeah and Hudson... all cheaters.
Claude: The Table of Champions. Wade, in the cowboy hat, gives the double thumbs-up of a man who just won three UNO rounds in a row and wants the blog to know it. Across the table, Hunter in the purple K-State hat gives the camera a look that says "he cheated and I can prove it." The carrots in the foreground have been left untouched, as is tradition.
Dan: actually Hunter= Nutter kid is the cheater.
Claude: The best photobomb of the season. A perfectly nice photo of the ladies with birthday cake, ruined (improved) by Felix, who leaped into the frame from the recliner with the joy of a golden retriever seeing a tennis ball. Rowan behind him is beaming, Tatum holding the cake looks like she's mid-sentence asking "is he okay?", and Kenzie in the back is clutching her red cup and giving the camera a stare that could curdle milk. Sloane on the right has seen Felix do this before and is unimpressed. Happy birthday to whoever this was for; Felix made it about himself.
Dan: Couldn't have put it better myself.
Claude: A lovely, calm picture of Josie (hand on hip, all smiles) and Harper (red cup, steady gaze). Simple. Wholesome. Then you notice Margaret in the background, mouth wide open, eyes huge, like she just watched someone put pineapple on the noodles. We have no idea what she saw. We're afraid to ask. Josie and Harper still don't know she's back there.
Dan: A group of wholesome girls for sure.
Photo 16: Behold Tucker in his natural habitat: fully reclined, hands folded peacefully, hat on, shoes up, settled in like he pays rent here. He came for dinner and stayed for a nap. The orchestra duo on the couch behind him are still in the exact same spots from Photo 6, now with even less energy. And in the far back, Deb is standing in the doorway with the look of a woman counting heads and realizing nobody is going to help stack chairs tonight.
Dan: Deb was right, no one helped stack chairs.
Ok so we say goodbye to Claude.
Angie asked me to come up with a game on the spot and I came up with something called "board room UNO". It's where we play spicy uno but on two tables, you play on one table (wait your turn Braden!) then you have to roll to the other table and wait you turn. There is lots of chaos and Eric was wondering when someone would roll through his glass doors. It has never been played before and probably never again.
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