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jianantonicI wasn't going to write more yet, but I got to work early today and someone told me I needed to write more, so, be careful what you wish for, I say.
I'll start from Friday and work forward. The place I'm living for the next few weeks is not equipped with laundry facilities, so on Friday night, Ahren and I packed up our laptops and dirty clothes and went to my mom's. We did three loads of laundry and played in three BBO tourneys. We scratched in all three and finished the night 1.87 masterpoints richer than we'd started. It was after midnight when we got home and we were beat.
But there was no sleeping in, because the cable guy came at 8am Saturday. He set us up with the wrong type of modem, but he made too fast a getaway, so we ended up having to fix it ourselves. Ahren went to Best Buy for me while I went to the gym (legs and 35 minutes on the treadmill). I napped after that, but Ahren couldn't sleep. At 4, we left for NoVa with a stop at TGIFridays on the way. Our waiter sucked big hairy donkey balls, and we were late getting out of town, but we still made it to Kerry and Jill's by 7:30. I was nervous about going to a party where I didn't know anyone, but their friends were all quite social and several of them had ties to Minnesota, which kept Ahren entertained. His lack of sleep/nap caught up with him, though, and he went to bed while most of us were still hanging out downstairs.
Kerry and I spent much of the evening talking music with some of his other music-loving friends, and while I'm not at liberty to discuss the details, let's just say I'm a little heartbroken over a certain Arlo incident. And to a lesser extent, a Nields incident. Oh well. And I learned that I'd been too much of a doofus and I missed getting Birchmere tickets before they sold out for EFO in January. I was going to try to get some from someone on the Edhead list, but then I checked the bridge schedule and there's a tourney that weekend in Williamsburg, so I think I may end up doing the tourney instead...cause EFO is playing the Blackfriars Playhouse in early February, so I'll definitely catch them then. That's my tentative plan. I'm trying to be really serious about bridge these days, so I can't be skipping the tournaments that are actually nearby.
On Saturday morning, I kicked Ahren's ass at Mario Bros version 1.0 before having cake for breakfast (I hadn't had any the night before because I was full from the vegetarian lasagna that rocked my world before the cake showed up) and skipping town. Sunday was booked for us, too.
First we went to Monticello, compliments of Adam. Ahren was kind of a punk about it, saying he didn't give a shit about American history, until the tour guide started talking about Lafayette - then he perked up and seemed to enjoy it. For the first time ever on one of my bajillion Monticello tours, I heard the guide actually mention Sally Hemmings - AND he went on to say that it was the official position of the TJ Society that he DID father her children. That's a HUGE turnaround from the stance they held when I was in school. If you so much as mentioned Sally Hemmings on the grounds of Monticello, you were shunned.
After that, we hit up my boss' Christmas party, then back home for more BBO. We'd gone over 24 hours without it and that's just too long. We entered an IMP Pair event and won our bracket for 1.20 masterpoints. I also cooked dinner that night and did a damn fine job if I do say so.
Yesterday was a busy and stressful day at work, but I sat on the couch with my laptop for an hour in the afternoon and pounded out my weekly feature so that I could free up some time in the rest of the week for all the other stuff I have to do - like the giant annual report I have to write, the pile of accounting crap I have to sort through, and the training I have to do for the new portfolio I'm taking over. Fun times.
After work was DI, which was a blast - the girls have some great ideas and I can't wait to see it all come together. I just hope they put their noses to the grindstone because the competition isn't as far off as they may think it is. I went to the gym after DI and did arms. I was going to maybe just bike for cardio, but my trainer was there and when she asked me what I was gonna do, "run" just escaped my mouth before my brain could stop it...so I ran.
I played some on BBO with Ahren (not tourney) when I got home, and then crashed pretty early. On one hand, I accidentally misclicked and hit DBL when I meant to hit PASS, and the bastards wouldn't let me undo, so they played 3H doubled, when most people are bidding four. That pissed me off, and I wanted to boot them from the table, but Ahren wouldn't let me - he told me to just wait it out. We ended up setting them 2. Ha! Others were bidding and making 4, but I found the perfect lead and ended up setting them for something obscene like 14 IMPs for us. I barked at them "That's what you get for being a jerk about my misclick" and left the table to go to bed. I'd say I ended the night on a high note, if not a bit of immaturity:)
So that brings us to today, where the plans are not solid but involve hanging out with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pwylltwiceborn and hitting up a sports bar to watch a hockey game. I'm not sure if these events will coincide or not, but they're both on the agenda.
Oh and congrats tojjbrr for the 98 on the paper about that anonymous person he interviewed last week. ;) jjbrr=my hero. No lie.
Peace.
I'll start from Friday and work forward. The place I'm living for the next few weeks is not equipped with laundry facilities, so on Friday night, Ahren and I packed up our laptops and dirty clothes and went to my mom's. We did three loads of laundry and played in three BBO tourneys. We scratched in all three and finished the night 1.87 masterpoints richer than we'd started. It was after midnight when we got home and we were beat.
But there was no sleeping in, because the cable guy came at 8am Saturday. He set us up with the wrong type of modem, but he made too fast a getaway, so we ended up having to fix it ourselves. Ahren went to Best Buy for me while I went to the gym (legs and 35 minutes on the treadmill). I napped after that, but Ahren couldn't sleep. At 4, we left for NoVa with a stop at TGIFridays on the way. Our waiter sucked big hairy donkey balls, and we were late getting out of town, but we still made it to Kerry and Jill's by 7:30. I was nervous about going to a party where I didn't know anyone, but their friends were all quite social and several of them had ties to Minnesota, which kept Ahren entertained. His lack of sleep/nap caught up with him, though, and he went to bed while most of us were still hanging out downstairs.
Kerry and I spent much of the evening talking music with some of his other music-loving friends, and while I'm not at liberty to discuss the details, let's just say I'm a little heartbroken over a certain Arlo incident. And to a lesser extent, a Nields incident. Oh well. And I learned that I'd been too much of a doofus and I missed getting Birchmere tickets before they sold out for EFO in January. I was going to try to get some from someone on the Edhead list, but then I checked the bridge schedule and there's a tourney that weekend in Williamsburg, so I think I may end up doing the tourney instead...cause EFO is playing the Blackfriars Playhouse in early February, so I'll definitely catch them then. That's my tentative plan. I'm trying to be really serious about bridge these days, so I can't be skipping the tournaments that are actually nearby.
On Saturday morning, I kicked Ahren's ass at Mario Bros version 1.0 before having cake for breakfast (I hadn't had any the night before because I was full from the vegetarian lasagna that rocked my world before the cake showed up) and skipping town. Sunday was booked for us, too.
First we went to Monticello, compliments of Adam. Ahren was kind of a punk about it, saying he didn't give a shit about American history, until the tour guide started talking about Lafayette - then he perked up and seemed to enjoy it. For the first time ever on one of my bajillion Monticello tours, I heard the guide actually mention Sally Hemmings - AND he went on to say that it was the official position of the TJ Society that he DID father her children. That's a HUGE turnaround from the stance they held when I was in school. If you so much as mentioned Sally Hemmings on the grounds of Monticello, you were shunned.
After that, we hit up my boss' Christmas party, then back home for more BBO. We'd gone over 24 hours without it and that's just too long. We entered an IMP Pair event and won our bracket for 1.20 masterpoints. I also cooked dinner that night and did a damn fine job if I do say so.
Yesterday was a busy and stressful day at work, but I sat on the couch with my laptop for an hour in the afternoon and pounded out my weekly feature so that I could free up some time in the rest of the week for all the other stuff I have to do - like the giant annual report I have to write, the pile of accounting crap I have to sort through, and the training I have to do for the new portfolio I'm taking over. Fun times.
After work was DI, which was a blast - the girls have some great ideas and I can't wait to see it all come together. I just hope they put their noses to the grindstone because the competition isn't as far off as they may think it is. I went to the gym after DI and did arms. I was going to maybe just bike for cardio, but my trainer was there and when she asked me what I was gonna do, "run" just escaped my mouth before my brain could stop it...so I ran.
I played some on BBO with Ahren (not tourney) when I got home, and then crashed pretty early. On one hand, I accidentally misclicked and hit DBL when I meant to hit PASS, and the bastards wouldn't let me undo, so they played 3H doubled, when most people are bidding four. That pissed me off, and I wanted to boot them from the table, but Ahren wouldn't let me - he told me to just wait it out. We ended up setting them 2. Ha! Others were bidding and making 4, but I found the perfect lead and ended up setting them for something obscene like 14 IMPs for us. I barked at them "That's what you get for being a jerk about my misclick" and left the table to go to bed. I'd say I ended the night on a high note, if not a bit of immaturity:)
So that brings us to today, where the plans are not solid but involve hanging out with
pwylltwiceborn and hitting up a sports bar to watch a hockey game. I'm not sure if these events will coincide or not, but they're both on the agenda. Oh and congrats to
jjbrr for the 98 on the paper about that anonymous person he interviewed last week. ;) jjbrr=my hero. No lie.Peace.
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Date: 2006-12-20 12:23 am (UTC)Is Ahren French? (Otherwise why Lafayette? I need exposition!) He's not doing much to help their stereotype by saying he doesn't care about American history. :-P
And there's nothing wrong with that sort of immaturity.
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Date: 2006-12-20 01:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-21 10:38 pm (UTC)