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The last week has been rough. Rather than dwelling on the bad, such as how I missed my flight to Bellingham, hitched a ride to Seattle, had my ride break down and ended up taking a taxi to the airport, I'll leave you with this relatively positive missive that I wrote on Friday but didn't get the chance to post:
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thoughts
times are strange. Life is currently a mashup of great and tough. They managed to slot my surgery in for next wednesday morning at 7 AM (I have to show up to the hospital at 5:30 AM). This is a fantastic development because it means that I have plenty of time to recover before I have to take my qualifying exam at the end of the April. It also means ( Read more... ) -
In case you live under a facebook rock
my apparently minor knee injury has turned out to be a torn acl. sigh. -
bibliomania
In spite of my huge backlog of reading I just picked up three books off of amazon ( Read more... ) -
Doug V Mike Frentz
I'm hanging out at scrabble club hoping to do some work, but I have the pleasure of getting to see doug and mike play their matchplay game so I'll add a few comments here and there (not full live coverage, sorry).
7pm - doug goes first and starts with zoeas for 48.
7:20 - as I finally start programming, doug has 289 and mike has himself 201. the ( Read more... ) -
injury fail
well, I'd kinda assumed my knee thing wasn't that bad since I've more or less just been able to walk around for a day or two. Instead, a trip to the doctor's appointment reveals that I might have a torn meniscus in my left knee and I need an MRI. Also, I now get to be on crutches again until the MRI, which means I will be on crutches in vegas. -
Game 7!!
We are here eating amazing pizza and cake and nick and xp are tied at 3-3! I'm gonna annotate this one - no computer with me but I'll try to update here.
9:42 - nick goes first
9:44 - opening racks ADEEQSZ for nick, BEHNNOR for xp. Nick puts down ZED, xp responds with bonze - maybe setting up bonzer?
The rocking beats of kcrw are in the background
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Discuss
James Leong is the Jeremy Lin of scrabble. -
Done with 2012
I uploaded the games for the only other tournament I've played this year, the Berkeley 1-day for January. It was pretty exciting because I had the chance to pass conrad and go 6-0 if I won my last game, but instead peter beat me and I was second on spread. I didn't update my game with conrad yet (I'll do that tomorrow) but my game against bruce was ( Read more... ) -
further upload of games
since I am currently mobility-challenged I have lots of time on my hands, so I went ahead and uploaded all my games from Best of the Bay last weekend in which I finished third. Plays worth checking out:
1. Sam Kantimathi correctly burns a blank for 17 points!
2. XP finally puts a hurting on me that I've long since deserved
3. I blow a pre-endgame but ( Read more... )