Forming an opinion
Feb. 1st, 2008 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jianantonicFollowing my last post, reading up today on last night's debate was quite helpful.
"The debate was a rallying debate for Democrats," said CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider. "Democrats like both of them, they continue to like both of them, and they want to vote for both of them."
I'm not sure if that's really true for most dems, but it's true for me. I think I really am leaning toward Hillary, number one because of her health care stance, and number two because of Bill/experience in a functioning government (especially when Congress was Republican dominated while Bill was Prez)/proven economic savvy of the Clinton regime.
So my vote in the primary is most likely going to Hillary, but I'd love to see both of them on the same ticket, and I'd still be proud to vote for Obama in November, as well. This is a helpful summary of health care platforms, btw: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.healthcare.html.
I'm on a friend's Mac today and I'm having issues figuring out everything. I get that Apple is a better company than Microsoft, with better products, but at the same time I'm so accustomed to the shittier version that adjusting to this one is more trouble than it's worth.
Oh, also, I'm really sick. Like, if I were using a computer that I understood, the word "really" would be bold, underlined, and italicized. But I'm at the playing site as a 5th member of the Swiss squad today with Z, two other pros, and the client. I played the last two evenings with Chris Moll, one of my favorite people in the world, and we had a good time but I just kept getting sicker and my play has steadily declined since Wednesday night. I played well-ish in the first set today, but could've picked up at least 7 or 8 more imps on one board that I chose to misbid. It was still a pickup, but it could've been bigger, which would have been nice given that we were only +2. I also made a questionable call on the next board which could have been heroic but ended up sort of disastrous. I held Kxxx QTxxxxx x J in second seat, all white. Over 1D, I pulled 3H, which got tapped and passed around. Dummy came down with xxx 2 xxxx Qxxxx, or something very similar to this. I held it to -500, and our teammates were in he 6D they belonged in, which is unfortunately down given the strange distribution for lose 12. Shame.
I fucked up pretty badly on the first board of the next match and couldn't let it go, which led to a handful of minor mistakes after that. I'm going to blame all of these stupid mistakes on the fact that the mucous has moved into where my brain used to be and I am doing the absolute best that I can what with the 3% of remaining thought power that I have. So while I do have an excuse, I still feel awful about the way shit's going down, because given that I'm not 100%, I shouldn't be playing on the team. We're in agreement that I'm still better than the client no matter how sick I may be, but the question is A) Is it worth sitting the client given that she won't get full awards if we place? and B) Do I want the boss seeing me play this way, given that one day I hope to work for him in a real capacity? Meh.
I know the mistakes that I made and I knew immediately that they were mistakes. Now if only I could reach the point in my game where I catch the mistakes before I go ahead and fucking make them. I'm disappointed with myself, and feeling sick on top of that is no picnic. I will play in one or two more rounds today, and hopefully I will have a strong showing. Then tonight we're going to a formal banquet, and I feel like ASS.
Blech.
Peace.
"The debate was a rallying debate for Democrats," said CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider. "Democrats like both of them, they continue to like both of them, and they want to vote for both of them."
I'm not sure if that's really true for most dems, but it's true for me. I think I really am leaning toward Hillary, number one because of her health care stance, and number two because of Bill/experience in a functioning government (especially when Congress was Republican dominated while Bill was Prez)/proven economic savvy of the Clinton regime.
So my vote in the primary is most likely going to Hillary, but I'd love to see both of them on the same ticket, and I'd still be proud to vote for Obama in November, as well. This is a helpful summary of health care platforms, btw: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.healthcare.html.
I'm on a friend's Mac today and I'm having issues figuring out everything. I get that Apple is a better company than Microsoft, with better products, but at the same time I'm so accustomed to the shittier version that adjusting to this one is more trouble than it's worth.
Oh, also, I'm really sick. Like, if I were using a computer that I understood, the word "really" would be bold, underlined, and italicized. But I'm at the playing site as a 5th member of the Swiss squad today with Z, two other pros, and the client. I played the last two evenings with Chris Moll, one of my favorite people in the world, and we had a good time but I just kept getting sicker and my play has steadily declined since Wednesday night. I played well-ish in the first set today, but could've picked up at least 7 or 8 more imps on one board that I chose to misbid. It was still a pickup, but it could've been bigger, which would have been nice given that we were only +2. I also made a questionable call on the next board which could have been heroic but ended up sort of disastrous. I held Kxxx QTxxxxx x J in second seat, all white. Over 1D, I pulled 3H, which got tapped and passed around. Dummy came down with xxx 2 xxxx Qxxxx, or something very similar to this. I held it to -500, and our teammates were in he 6D they belonged in, which is unfortunately down given the strange distribution for lose 12. Shame.
I fucked up pretty badly on the first board of the next match and couldn't let it go, which led to a handful of minor mistakes after that. I'm going to blame all of these stupid mistakes on the fact that the mucous has moved into where my brain used to be and I am doing the absolute best that I can what with the 3% of remaining thought power that I have. So while I do have an excuse, I still feel awful about the way shit's going down, because given that I'm not 100%, I shouldn't be playing on the team. We're in agreement that I'm still better than the client no matter how sick I may be, but the question is A) Is it worth sitting the client given that she won't get full awards if we place? and B) Do I want the boss seeing me play this way, given that one day I hope to work for him in a real capacity? Meh.
I know the mistakes that I made and I knew immediately that they were mistakes. Now if only I could reach the point in my game where I catch the mistakes before I go ahead and fucking make them. I'm disappointed with myself, and feeling sick on top of that is no picnic. I will play in one or two more rounds today, and hopefully I will have a strong showing. Then tonight we're going to a formal banquet, and I feel like ASS.
Blech.
Peace.
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Date: 2008-02-01 05:30 pm (UTC)Hope you feel better. Enjoy the rest of bridge in Bermuda.
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Date: 2008-02-01 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-01 05:57 pm (UTC)1D 3H X p p p suggests the opponent might be some sort of moron. What heart holding does he have in front of you where he things it might be profitable? AKJx? 1D 3H p p X p p p is more reasonable, although I now wonder how the auction went at the other table.
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Date: 2008-02-01 06:20 pm (UTC)that heart pre-empt
Date: 2008-02-02 06:35 pm (UTC)-- Kevin
Re: that heart pre-empt
Date: 2008-02-02 10:43 pm (UTC)Re: that heart pre-empt
Date: 2008-02-03 04:17 am (UTC)-- Kevin
Re: that heart pre-empt
Date: 2008-02-03 02:52 pm (UTC)