I have been trying to redefine how I perceive luck.

My one son is very logical. He plays Scape statistically, using probability. Usually he doesn’t’ have as much fun as my other son and I. To us it’s about stories, about characters and battles and situations. Legends. My logical son usually wins, but he doesn’t enjoy it as much as we losers do. Sometimes he actually has a bad time slaughtering us. Isn’t that funny?

I usually roll really badly. Is it logical that I can roll the same dice that my middle son rolls and he will usually get what he wants and I never will? I guess some part of dice rolling involves quantum probability- you get what you think you’re going to get. So I roll poorly, my middle son rolls very well and my logical son gets what he logically would.

I used to play cards with my dad; he thinks he is a very unlucky man. I always won. He used to curse his luck, curse the cards, and wonder why he was so unlucky. We...

Today everything is worthwhile.

It’s morning. I’m still at my weird soulless job, the one where I don’t have internet access and can’t check out this site anymore. That sucks the most, you know. The rest of it is almost funny. If it wasn't my life, I'd find it entertaining.

The hourly workers are in a little corral of cubes, and the managers surround us, so many managers- really, do they need all those managers? There are more of them than there are of us. They watch us all the time. I was warned. They whisper about you. Cause trouble for you. But it doesn’t really matter you see, because they have taken away every distraction, everything of interest, ever spark of life that could ignite us. We have been told not to gossip, not to do personal things, not to talk to others. Just work. And most of us don’t have enough to do. It doesn’t make sense at all. Sometimes it feels like I'm participating in some weird sensory deprivation experiment....

I have never played WoW and really know nothing about it. That’s probably for the best. Ignorance is bliss, right?

But my sons have played, and they wanted to set up a Scape scenario something like Erathi Basin, whatever that means. I have long been dreaming of a scenario where points are obtained during play for reinforcing armies...

But my sons suggested this Erathi Basin version:

Control one node on the map and get 3 points each turn, control two and get five, controlling three gets you eight points, control of four earns 12 points and controlling all five is rewarded with 20 points per turn. The game winner would be the first person to reach a predetermined number.

There would be a starting zone at each end of the board as well as two graveyards near the middle. Dead troops, after sitting out two rounds, could re-enter the game through starting zones or through a graveyard if you controlled it. The game would be...