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Hey, just because you can't read it. Besides, there really isn't much you need to read to play.

There is no install, it's Java or flash. You just log in and choose a name, then a room.

Furiten rules are Japanese rules, it'll be easier to explain in a game at some point. Basically it plays something like gin rummy, you build 3-4 of a kinds or 1-2-3 straights to form a hand. Hands are worth more or less depending on how they're played.

Furiten is a little different, since you have Dora tiles, riichi, and furiten. Dora tiles are bonus tiles, indicated by a flipped tile. When you get 4 of a kind you can flip another tile. They basically just add to your score at the end.

Riichi is a 1000 point investment, if you're one tile away from winning and haven't called anything you can declare riichi. You'll have to discard anything that isn't your winning tile though.

Furiten is a state where you can only win by drawing the tile you need (Tsumo) because you discarded or passed on a tile you needed to win earlier in the game. You have to plan out your hand to not get screwed by it.

It's a little complicated, I'll draw up a picture to illustrate what I mean later.

Hahaha. Text message my mom sent me: "It's snowing again!" Text message I sent back: "Lame, I'm sunbathing."
...yeah, I definitely don't miss snow.


I can't wait 'til next weekend - I get to see BOTH my girls!

Your mom can text? x3

My boyfriend's mom sent him one for the first time last week. It was extremely short, but so funny and endearing how excited she was about it.

It's weird, now that my mom and dad regularly communicate via MSN messenger, they both have picked up a lot of chatspeak. xd I understand the shortcuts though, when you type as fast as they do [not fast at all] it helps tremendously. But it's so strange to see our "worlds" collide, like how my mom crawls into bed with her webcam to say goodnight to dad the same way I do with Ryan when we're apart.

Awh, that's really sweet. =)

For a really long time, my mother's text messages were entirely in capitals and had weird spacing, and half the time the words had a letter in them that was one off (like she didn't press the key enough times). I sat down with her over the summer and showed her how to change stuff around, though, and she's gotten a lot better...now she sends me a text message every morning, telling me what the weather at home is like and to have a wonderful day.
She uses MSN messenger, too, but I don't think she's picked up on any chatspeak.

Why am I letting something stupid like this bother me? D:

Work is going to be very unpleasant if I can't get out of this mood. Curling up in a corner and crying, or taking a lond, hot bubble bath with a good book would do me wonders. So would getting those headphones, but noooo. An hour isn't long enough to go somewhere that's ten minutes away, get what I want, and come back. Of course not.

At least I found my iPod.