I have to finalize basics very soon.  So here's your last chance for input before I make everything official - and post it on x-t and NASPA:

Please reply, and thanks in advance:

• 90% certain that it'll be 20 games, beginning either Friday late afternoon or night.  Which is better for you, more games Friday ( afternoon start) or more on Saturday?
• June 4 ( Read more... )

STUD: Scrabble Till U Drop

Date: Tentatively scheduled for June 4 - June 12, 2011.

Location: Baltimore, Maryland, in the beautiful yet surprisingly affordable Inner Harbor

Number of Games: 60: 3-8-7-8-7-8-7-8-4, starting Saturday evening and running through the following Sunday.  YES, you read that right.  NINE DAYS of Scrabble.

Divisions: Two ( Read more... )

Okay.  I just woke up with a startle, after having a nightmare that I pulled a Ronnie Thomas and slept through the entire morning's games.  "Oh, shit," I thought as I squinted to see the time.  If I'm missing the games, then so is Spouse.  Whew, 7:19, we're okay.  So, I leisurely perused the room service menu, and placed an omelet order for me, a ( Read more... )

Spouse went to bed at 6:30 tonight.  As in, went to sleep for the night.  He's been a zonkles for about six hours.  Why?  It took us twelve hours to get here last night from Baltimore.  Yes, poor Spouse got up early Friday, worked a full day at the community hospital (which is super busy), then drove the entire way in horrific DC-area traffic and ( Read more... )

I'm curious - how are "lurkers" able to find LJ users?  I ask because since I joined, I have gotten friended by folks I don't know.  Very recently, I got asked by someone I've never heard of, who is not a Scrabbler, and who I know I have never met.  She lives in Georgia.  From her photo - if indeed it is real - she is Asian, and if my [what I call ( Read more... )

1. "The Situation" may be the stupidest nickname in the history of mankind.  I don't know what's more depressing: the fact that these people exist, that they're making money with a TV show - or that otherwise sane, normal folks are watching them.
2. My almost-perfect spouse's only foible (and it's a doozy) is that he is a massive catastrophizer - how he's ( Read more... )

Pretty Boy does Evil  I have to admit Spouse was right all along.  Back when John Edwards was running for prez, S would go nuts every time he'd see him on TV, calling Edwards that "motherfuckin' scumbag ambulance-chaser!" (Yes, I'm not the only one in the household who rants).

"Not every med-mal attorney's evil," I'd say calmly.

"WHAT?!! Are you ( Read more... )

I have to take a deep breath, and brace myself for this trip - even though it's only 2 1/2 hours, according to googlemaps.  Spouse will be driving separately from Pittsburgh - where he's still at an interview.  My plan is to get to the hotel early, find a wig store, relax a bit, maybe squeeze in a nap before the Doubles this evening ( Read more... )

If you like scary movies, you MUST see this.  I screamed till I had a headache - but I loved almost every minute of it.

I had no idea what this was about - and might have nixed seeing it had I known the religious theme - but the trailer intrigued me.  Since I was in a frighteningly FOUL mood, S thought it'd be a good idea to take me on a movie date ( Read more... )

The Australian Open and the availability of ESPN on a 68-inch HDTV is, for an insomniac tennis buff like me, just about as good as life can get.  Sadly the big TV was just at my richie-rich bro's house Sunday night.  Now, I have to settle for watching it on a small, "normal person's" TV at the hotel ( Read more... )