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yeah, baby
So my partner’s a really great player and that’s a lot to live up to, if you know what I mean. Today was the first time I wasn’t out of my mind nervous to sit across from her, even though I was wound up extra tight on account of my promotion to Cantina Short Order [...]
Published by stacy on November 22nd, 2008 tagged Bridge | 3 Comments »
mea culpa
I sent a nastygram out to my teammates last week. What I should have sent was something friendly, like: “Can’t wait to see you in Boston, hope all is well.” Instead, I wrote seven impassioned paragraphs outlining my perspective and emailed an unfortunate three of them. I’d have done better, I realize in retrospect, to [...]
Published by stacy on November 19th, 2008 tagged Bridge | 3 Comments »
prepping for boston
I’ve been catching up on some reading lately; the other day I stopped in on Claire and found all sorts of great things including this interview with Lorenzo Lauria. George sent me this great article about the end of the world as we know it.
It will be interesting to see how the bridge world looks [...]
Published by stacy on November 15th, 2008 tagged Bridge | 2 Comments »
once upon a time
Several interesting threads going on around the bridge blogosphere; I’ll tell you a story which may relate.
Once upon a time, a brilliant swarthy zen master played bridge with his flashy young partner on a team sponsored by one of his oldest and dearest friends and filled out with some high-octane horses. The third pair like [...]
Published by stacy on November 9th, 2008 tagged Bridge | Comment now »
be right back
Birthday Week is finally over. My folks arrived on Thursday in time to celebrate the big one-two with us; then I put in a couple of days making a fairly traditional Thanksgiving dinner: squash soup, roast turkey (I recommend this recipe), oyster dressing, cornbread stuffing (Kosher - meat), green beans, sweet potato gnocchi, cranberries, brussels [...]