That makes it a perfect time to play some cards (Pinochle, Uno, Sheepshead, Schmear) or board games (Monopoly, Scrabble, Sequence) to pass the time.
It's been a while since I had done much card or game playing, but in the last month or so there have been a couple of times when it proved to be a great way to spend time together.
Monopoly is one of those games that requires time to play to the finish, so it's a good way to while a way the afternoon or the evening with several friends. My suggestion, if you are playing Monopoly buy the properties you land on, get complete ownership of a couples as soon as possible and buy houses and hotels as fast as you can. If you are the first to that party, you have a high likelihood of winning.
Just playing cards is a social event all its own and depending on what kind of cards you play it can be social or competitive. My interest and ability to learn the rules of card games is limited, so games like Uno and combination card and board games like Sequence are more my speed than poker or bridge.
If you ever see me in a poker game with you - I'd suggest upping your ante because I'm an easy mark.
Lutherans are known to like their card playing. While serving as a district representative for Aid Association for Lutherans in north Wisconsin, the games of choice at branch meetings were euchre, schmear, and sheepshead. They tried a couple of times to break-down the rules of trump and suits and how to play spades when the moon is full. Let's just say I watched and walked from table to table re-filling coffee.
You may not have time today for a round (with Packer pre-game, game, and post-game) of cards, but in this electronic social atmosphere we live in today... welcoming 2015 in with an old style game of cards may be just the thing to renew old traditions and old (or new) friendships.
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