I visited Prue last night, for dinner and (as it turned out) half a game of Scrabble. Another visitor arrived while we were playing, and we thought it would be rude to ignore her and carry on.

So we thought for a bit, applied my camera to the problem, and now on my hard disk I have pictures of the board, my letters, her letters, and the score sheet. Some day we'll meet up again, reconstruct the game state, and finish it off :-)

(We got some very odd looks from Prue's sister and the other friend for doing this. I think they thought we were doing it because we cared about the Scrabble game so much that we couldn't bear to leave it unfinished, and therefore they seemed to think it was kind of sad. In fact it was more that once we'd had the idea of preserving the game by camera, it was much too silly an idea to waste. Perhaps this is one of those mindset things that stops normal people understanding geeks.)