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good morning
had a nice day in dover yesterday...5-3 would have been good enough for third, but kind of hard to catch up on spread when someone in my division had a 740-ish game. regardless, i gained back more than half the rating points i lost in chicago, averaged 402 a game, played two nines and had lots of fun. but without further ado...survey! yay!
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so i took some nyquil tuesday night...
...and was suddenly driving around the estate section southampton, ny looking for my pet bat, which must have flown out of the car (the le baron convertible i had when i was seventeen). etheridge2 was in the passenger seat telling me where to turn (in my own home town?) and bricap was in the back seat, asking me if i had a bat cave. for some reason, i thought he ( Read more... ) -
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i have not been writing/commenting here much, and it isn't as if i have nothing to write about...i just have not been doing it. i needed a break from introspection. my tournament reports were boring even though the tournaments never are. i had to quote literature to make a point which was both presumptuous and redundant. i couldn't make sense of ( Read more... ) -
oh, yeah
from rob brezney (read in the local alternative weekly while at work ( Read more... ) -
"what the fuck is an f-bomb?"
the above quote was uttered by one of my customers last week, just as i was approaching the table, and it took nearly everything i had to control my facial expression AND not say something snarky ( Read more... ) -
the schedule
i went to utica club last night because, in two and a half hours, i begin the first of six shifts in four days, which includes a v-day double (restaurant hell), a conference of assholes (i don't know this for sure, but most of my experiences with conferences is that the people are assholes) and a motherload of snow (i'll believe it when i see it), ( Read more... ) -
for fuck's sake
they just hauled a dead guy off the sidewalk across the street. it seems that he fell off a roof, or out a window, possibly getting hit by a car in the process. -
digesting the TACO
my 8-7-1 finish accomplished my goal of winning more than i lost, and that combined with finishing 30 places above my seeding made up for not finishing in the (class prize) money. i was always in good company and had a great weekend. my rating increase should be somewhat substantial, and i felt i was playing fairly well ( Read more... )