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what happens at Threadgill’s
Last night George and I had the great fortune of being invited to a rockstar (bluegrass, actually, courtesy of the legendary Austin Lounge Lizards) birthday party. We were pleasantly surprised to run into a few bridge players, including my recent teammate Mildred Breed.
Above: George and birthday boy Sam Dinkin talking about a hand from the [...]
Published by stacy on May 31st, 2009 tagged Bridge | 1 Comment »
giddyup!
Back from a thoroughly enjoyable west coast roadtrip. I’d been feeling a little (a lot) gun-shy after the ass-kicking we took in Houston, I was nervous going into the trials and disheartened when we came up lame. I’m nothing if not tenacious, so instead of slinking back home feeling sorry for myself, I talked my [...]
Published by stacy on May 29th, 2009 tagged Bridge | 6 Comments »
a downer
“Show me a good loser,” Vince Lombardi said, “and I’ll show you a loser.”
I was disappointed not to have made it out of the Round Robin. We were still in good shape — qualifying — with two matches to play, but it just wasn’t to be. I still want to go [...]
Published by stacy on May 26th, 2009 tagged Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
gotta beat somebody
We had our best match of the day (so far, lots still to play) against Bye; we had accidents against Glasson and Fireman in the first and second rounds and lost them both.
Teammates are playing Sylvia Moss, against whom we were previously up 10, in what feels like a must-win match; they’ve taken our [...]
Published by stacy on May 24th, 2009 tagged Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
well underway
By the time Terry Lavender started the captain’s meeting at 10:30 yesterday morning, even the non-captains among us knew that we were missing some crucial items.
In today’s bulletin you’ll read that the entire women’s trials is played behind screens. That’s a bit of an overbid; the pallet with the screens didn’t arrive from Memphis, [...]