What can I do? That day is done

bunny_hugger woke up earlier than I did Saturday, so she could sign up for the costume contest, and so she could go to a tournament of a board game she's got but rarely can play because it requires more than two players. I didn't think I was so tired but the fact I barely stirred for another hour or so said otherwise. What I did wake for was the second of the pinball tournaments, this one playing a full game. (This would be done in ``tournament mode'', though, with the random elements part of modern pinball games set to standard routines, for fairness to all players.)

( How did the pinball go? What web comic came surprisingly close to us? What gifts was chefmongoose also generous in giving to us? What was unusual about the Dealers Den arrangements? The answers may surprise you!  )

Trivia: German forces in Italy surrendered to the Allies on the 2nd of May, 1945; those in north-western Europe on the 4th of May, with the final surrender of all German forces on the 7th. Source: History Of The Second World War, B H Liddell Hart.

Currently Reading: The Long Road Home: The Aftermath Of The Second World War, Ben Shephard. This is really gripping reading, about a part of the story of World War II that just never gets told --- given the incredible numbers of people just in Europe whose families were shattered, in areas that were shattered, in nations that were shattered, how do you put anything back together in any way that makes any sense or is just --- but it also feels like all the bits of doing some right to traumatized people have to be paid for with incredible agonies. It's surprisingly similar in tone to (grown-up) westerns, in placing a relative handful of people in a situation too big to be really tamed and doing what they can to make a fair situation of it.