the phagos blog

This past weekend some friends and I got together for our regular monthly card game.  It’s a friendly low stakes game that gives us a chance to catch up with each other since we don’t work together anymore.  I lost a little bit of money - not a great deal, but the last few times I have lost money.  Looking back, I can clearly see the pattern of how I am playing - I don’t play to win, I play to not lose.  There’s a huge difference.

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Not so long ago I went to see the movie Hitman in the theatres.  Not a bad action flick really - not my favorite, but definitely worth the price of a ticket.  I’d seen the game in Sam’s Club a year or two ago, shopping for something else, and while I didn’t pick it up then, it stuck in my mind as something I might want to buy and play.  Of course, I didn’t know they were going to adapt it into a miovie.
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