- I didn't let a blown 100-point lead in the opener get to me ( Read more... )

You don't get a ranking unless you're active.

You're not active unless you've played 28 fully-rated games in 24 months.

Weera's not going to be "top 10" or "top anything" until after he's completed another multi-day, or a couple of one-days.

can be found at http://www.andysthoughts.com/dec2009/html/

...is jambalaya night. Julie's recipe. :-)

Apologies for lack of photograph; my guests ate these before I remembered to take one ( Read more... )

How do you open?

http://www.examiner.com/x-10967-Fun-Examiner~y2009m8d20-Fun-101--Are-there-other-ways-to-play-ScrabbleRead more... )

If somebody was to host a local-to-you charity NASPA-rated Scrabble tournament where 100% of the money taken in went to the charity, if instead of paying an entry fee, you'd collect pledged donations (with a minimum requirement of, say, $25 to enter), and all of the prizes were of donated merchandise and none of the prizes were cash, would you play ( Read more... )

It was great to see everybody that I don't get to see all of the time.

Karaoke Tuesday night was an absolute blast.

I missed Julie terribly the entire week.

On the plus side -- I didn't lose a game the entire weekend.

I was on Paul Paquet's QuizCaster this week; you can have a listen here -- enjoy!