field notes 4 dcook

On this day i returned to th Due West Retirement Center determined to improve my new found obsession in Rumikub. Although they only play certain days at 3 o' clock I had spent some time over the week looking up diffeent strategies and different plays that could procure a victory. The first couple rounds of the game I realized that all the startegy and and game plans that I had eveloped were sudenly useless. General Patton, I believe once said, " No battle plan survives contact contact with the enemy." He could not have hit the nail on the head any harder than he did. I spent all that time deeloping a point of attack and plan to thwart my elderly counterparts but all that preparatin was nullified by the experience my fellow rummikub players possessed. I played for quite some time that day but left once again defeated but with a better understanding of what these rsidents use their time doing at the center. They may be cut off from the rest of the world but in the center they have to make due with what they have and have as much fun as they can even though they may never get a visit or call froma family member.