From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-04-13, D  wrote:   
      
   > Beautiful! Recently, due to the need to occupy myself   
   > with something physical, I've started a trip down memory   
   > lane to my childhood and youth when I wanted to become   
   > a magician. So to occupy my mind, I've found picking up   
   > sleight of hands and card magic to be very therapeutic. The   
   > hands practice their moves, while the mind focuses on   
   > other things.   
      
   You know, I want to say I had some magician leanings as a kid.   
      
   And typing that suddenly had me remembering a book from the   
   1970s called "The Inner Game of Tennis", whose ideas I felt   
   actually worked. I wasn't a tennis player, but definitely   
   sported a table tennis obsession, and honestly felt that   
   having read that book had given me a borderline magical   
   :-) advantage.   
      
   > WHen it comes so solitaire, I've been   
   > thinking about trying the canfield   
   > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_(solitaire) ).   
      
   I'm not familiar with Canfield, but then I'm not familiar   
   with games in general. I had a solitaire app on my phone   
   for years, and was really into its "Spider Solitaire"   
   option. But I eventually had to admit it turned me into a   
   bit of a nervous wreck, never mind quite the procrastinator   
   therein. I removed it a couple months ago.   
      
   So now I play *my* game on it from time to time, but it's   
   not the kind of game one could become keypress addicted to.   
      
   The only electronic games I could say I got really into   
   were the arcade console games "Ms. Pacman" and "Galaga".   
   I can't say I mastered the former, just enjoyed the heck   
   out of it. But I got pretty good at Galaga. As I recall,   
   I was one of the first in my realm to notice that one could   
   score over a million only as player two, so of course I'd   
   wind up spending a bit more over time.   
      
   Unfortunately, that was so long ago I've no idea what my   
   best game was. But it was just so intensely absorbing in   
   the higher "levels", and the aforementioned "inner game"   
   could come into play with it as well.   
      
   Oh, gosh, I just remembered the "sub(marine sandwich)   
   shop" in town that had those games also had "Donkey Kong",   
   which was quite the hit back then. I'd completely forgotten   
   about that beast....   
      
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