Monopoly post script

P.S. I FINALLY beat Ben at Monopoly after trying for a week. Unfortunately for our marriage, this whoopin' (for Monopoly, which tends to take a relatively long time, the entire game last about an hour) was sandwiched between 2 veritable decimations playing Scrabble. Ben finally declared a 7 day moratorium on playing games with me. I know that he's hit his breaking point when he keeps muttering, "It's not your birthday...it's not your birthday!!"