Apolo-geez

I owe an apology to 8 people who did not get to play another round because of my Monkey Boycott. Last Saturday in Interleague it was down to me & Stupor Mario for the win, so I asked Ivy to take me out of the game. That meant the chimp won automatically & everyone else had to pick up their toys & go home. I blame Ivy. He is certainly one of the people who has earned the right to say, "Stop it, you self-absorbed Princess Pepper. Forfeit the match & let people have their final round." (with an accompanying slap on the forhead) But of course he would never do that. I am sorry for cutting the tourney short. I will continue to boycott MonkeyBars, but I will do it with a forfeit & not a withdrawal.

I also owe an apology to anyone who has had the misfortune to step in front of my ill humor lately. I call it MPS "Mad Pepper Syndrome." I seem to be getting ticked off at the slightest things lately. A player gave me a hard time about the blue seat recently, as he has often done in the past. Instead of 1 minute of muttering "asshole" at my monitor, I stewed for the whole tourney & a small time after that. I got annoyed when 2 different players told me they were watching TV while playing. At the time, I felt it was a passive-aggressive gesture to show me that playing me did not require full concentration. (made worse by the fact that they both beat me) This has never bothered me in the past, I've watched TV while playing too, but this time it soured me for an hour. Little things flare up & stick in my craw, like: teenagers who play far beyond their vocabularies; new members who mysteriously appear & play well; players who start a Ladder game 1 minute before the tourney begins, then make their opponents wait until they are finished; readers who comment on blogs anonymously; etc etc etc. I'm a total grouch these days & more than one Ox'er has pm'd to ask if I'm okay.

I am okay, just experiencing little mini-meltdowns that vanish nicely when I smoke a roach or two. If I snap at you, please just call me a name & leave me be until the THC kicks in. This too shall pass.