Playing Monopoly with eight year olds is one of those ideas that seems like fun, but is in fact a cleverly disguised bottomless pit of hell. Young children aren’t very good at losing, and in Monopoly there is really only one winner. Generally I am crap at Monopoly, and often take out last place - even when I’m playing with my sisters. For some reason this time, I was kicking ass; by the time I was on my third lap of the board I had eight properties and the girls had like, one.

Obviously, they didn’t like that, and started getting all pouty and grumpy. We decided to take a break from Monopoly so that they could get over it, and I think we’ll try to continue the game tomorrow. The girls are in bed right now - they actually go to sleep without much fuss now - and I’m playing Ultima Online right now, relaxing. Speaking of Ultima Online, I found this awesome comic today that uses a few fantastic UO references, and you should check it out.

Um, yes. That is all.