Something nerdy and card related like Magic: The Gathering or (I’m showing either my age or love of not so mainstream collectible card games with this next one) Star Trek TCG…
@detailer Oh OK then. Reminds me there was a product sold here that looked like a tennis/badminton racquet, with rechargeable battery and high-voltage grid (and creepy blue lights). Supposedly you could swat things and electrocute them (or yourself) at the same time. Or leave it in the stand and bugs would fly into the light and be zapped, humanely of course(?).
@detailer@pmarin Fortunately for the bugs, the maybe-somewhat-UV dim bluish light didn’t seem to attract much of anything. The brand name was Gloue, which I’m sure somebody thought was just terribly clever.
shuffling, games, magic tricks
Decking around with friends.
For nothing thanks to my ridiculous fear of wasps. They love my deck though.
@LaserEyes I completely understand.
Holding up the back of the house.
Keeping the inside bits of the ship out of the rain.
@mehcuda67 Grab your gun and bring in the cat.
You cannot play poker without a deck.
Launch and recovery; do not go out on the deck during flight ops if you do not have an assigned task there.
@werehatrack Also for Maverick to ignore when on Jester’s six.
KuoH
Counting the cards, so I “know when to hold them, when to fold them, when to walk away, know when to run.”
Ain’t no one trying to be outside in the summertime in the desert.
Something nerdy and card related like Magic: The Gathering or (I’m showing either my age or love of not so mainstream collectible card games with this next one) Star Trek TCG…
Reading/working in the summer for about 10 minutes before being chased back indoors by heat and/or mosquitoes.
Swatting bumble bees with a badminton racket. Great fun!!
@detailer wait, they’re the good ones, aren’t they? Don’t do that, you cruel beast!
@pmarin Not the good ones. The wood boring type. Die you little fuckers…die!
@detailer Oh OK then. Reminds me there was a product sold here that looked like a tennis/badminton racquet, with rechargeable battery and high-voltage grid (and creepy blue lights). Supposedly you could swat things and electrocute them (or yourself) at the same time. Or leave it in the stand and bugs would fly into the light and be zapped, humanely of course(?).
@detailer @pmarin Fortunately for the bugs, the maybe-somewhat-UV dim bluish light didn’t seem to attract much of anything. The brand name was Gloue, which I’m sure somebody thought was just terribly clever.
I have a deck because my wife won’t let me use the smoker inside.
trying to make friends with the local chipmunk and squirrel population
@DocJRoberts But not the moose.
My wealthy neighbors who don’t park on the street.
Chairs.
@pakopako Succinct.