Others writing the Sunday Somethings: Kerry
Something that makes me happy: Playing bridge with Lance on Saturday mornings at the Triangle Bridge Club.
Something i am struggling with: I’m studying strip-squeezes, a bridge play technique. They are immensely cool, but i’m despairing of ever actually recognizing one in real play.
Something tasty: Coffee made at home. We went for a week without it, and no one else’s coffee is quite the same. It’s often too strong, and always too hot. Why do they need the water to be 150 degrees or whatever it is? When it comes out of my own coffee pot, i can drink it without burning my tongue.
Something i learned: WD-40 really is magic.
Something from the bridge table: A couple of hands from the recent regional tournament are written up on the bridge tab.
Something i am reading: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.
Something happening around the house: Raleigh is hosting another sectional tournament this coming weekend, so i’ve been doing my thing making a few goodies to bring and share. I like making food for the tournament because i always make things that i rarely make on my own,
Something i am thinking: I heard an amusing segment on NPR about the rearrangement of the major football conferences. It seems somehow wrong that the schools are making shittons of money off of these kids, who don’t see any of it. I guess it comes back in the way of NFL contracts for some of them, but plenty of them won’t make it professionally.
Something i am looking forward to: More bridge this weekend at the Raleigh sectional.
Something random: We took Nugent for a walk at Lake Lynn yesterday. On the far side of the lake there’s a long bridge under which turtles congregate. We fed a few of them some bread, and once word got out that there was food being doled out, all sorts of turtles, big and small, started heading our way. I counted 30 turtles at one point. The fun part was trying to drop the bread bits where the turtles could snatch them before the ducks stole the loot.
Something captured: I just haven’t gotten my camera out recently.