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Returned for the Pittsburgh Tourney... nice job by Stan and Terry... the room was a little tight, but otherwise, a superb job. And since the original motivation for me to get my directors test was to see a tourney in the Burgh, I was happy to make it, despite the personal costs involved, monetary and otherwise. My level of play was decidedly mediocre on the whole. 6-6, -200-something. Only 2 games behind first in a field where parity was the rule, congrats ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) endbrainon the win... Back behind the privacy and safety of the friends only wall, I will do my game b y game breakdowns, discussion of my play and its general atrocity, and other fun stuff... but out here in public, some highlights, and the ubiquitous bingo list. 1. Found the coolest play with a first rack of EEILOT? after Paul Epstein opened with WANTED 8D. 2. Overcame a Triple Triple by Dorcas Alexander to win a shootout... 3. Found the only win in the endgame to complete a comeback against Carolyn Easter. Bingoes: Tags: bingoes, pittsburgh, scrabble
Current Location: Medina
Current Mood:  cheerful
Current Music: Semisonic- The Great Divide
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Returned from West Virginia, family tree still branching. A rather pedestrian 0-4 today knocked me out of the main event money, but it was a fun day. Won the early bird at 4-0, and 6-6 is what I end up in the Main Event against a strongish field. With one exception, my bingoes weren't quite as impressive as stmonday's, but There is one must see position. There is an easy seven to play here... but that would be too easy and unimpressive. My play scored the same and was far more fun. If you were at Charleston, you probably heard about it from me, so don't blow it for the rest.
THE POSITION IS HEREOtherwise, the official certified bingo list below.
So that's the short story. More about me handing away a couple of games and being an idiot in future posts. Have fun with the position. Tags: bingoes, charleston, position, scrabble
Current Location: back home
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Neutral Milk Hoten- In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
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endbrainposted his half of the game... figured it's time to put mine out there. Game HERE He played better than me, and he clearly has far stronger word knowledge, but I won, because my traditional "draw marginally better" than my opponents strategy was reasonably effective. Fun game though, and absolutely vital for getting the rust off before this weekend's Elyria Tourney. Turn 1- As usual I misplay my opening rack. I'd misplay AEINST? if I had it most games. FOGY is clearly best. 2- Ugh. I misspell SATIETY, transposing the I and E... fortunately with a rack as strong as that one, it handcuffed him a bit in response. I shoulda played the eights, but I was lazy, frankly. I need to get back into a working mindset when I play. 3. I let the phoney go, because sixes are a foreign language. He gave me the P for the bingo, and again I was lazy. ASPERITY is far better... but EPINASTY is just a cool word. 4. again, I'm a moron. I know INTINES. I knew I shoulda played it two minutes after I played the vastly inferior eight. Ugh... I suck sometimes. 5. Miraculously I actually make the right play... of course, it's obvious and scores more than I deserve. My drawing well strategy at its peak. 6. I hold his ORMOLU, but figure one that weird must be good. Quackle likes POON instead of POO, I figure if I have to hold onto UI, NR is better than R as its company. 7.Quackle says take the points for ULNAR, but only barely. Sim kills my UNAU though. too many points to give up to break up the IU. 8. I should have fished. OH kills my OREAD (which looked cool at the time). Even FILCHED is better. At this point, I would like to say, that maybe I'm just not very good. 9. My fixation with dumping the V costs me 13 points (and eight points of equity). I just wanted to dump the V and make sure that I killed the E to play through, with the ? unseen. 10. Brendan's only real mistake so far (to my 7 or 8) gives me the opening I need. I score well, take the dangerous triple, while holding the I for the unseen Q. I finally do something right. 11. His play empties the bag. I realize that with his drekkish rack, i just need to pull off a garden variety out in two.In my excitement and rush to get the out in two, I miss the cool sequence endbrain describes on his blog. I probably woulda missed it anyways, but then again, I'm not very good. It was fun to play and return to the Pittsburgh club, anyways. It's good to se a big turnout, and some improving players there. I'm looking forward to a trip back for the June tourney in the Burgh, where Brendan will exact his revenge when it counts. Tags: scrabble
Current Location: my apartment, briefly
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Connells- Boylan Heights
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Ganked from everyone... most recently ipecac_icecap, aibretty, et al. Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random. Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song. Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from. Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly. Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is cheating. no cheating, please! Having no MP3 player, I'm cheating and using my CDs... Including the embarrassing ones. 1. Brother Pele's in the back, sweet Zina in the front 2. Don't start me talking... I could talk all night. 3. Make a hole with a gun perpendicular to the name of this town in a desktop globe 4.This is just the basics, this is not the best... everybody knows that the trouble starts when you talk all about the rest 5. Tears fill up my eyes, I'm washed away in sorrow 6. I want a pill that makes me drunk. 7. A friend assures me, it's all or nothing, but I am not really worried. 8. I can't see myself at thirty. 9. Got a body like soft serve dripping down in the June sun. 10.Can you be so cold? Can you know how I feel? 11. I like the way she calls me "Baby," her hair pulled back to show a smile. 12. Her name is Noelle, I had a dream about her. 13. How can I believe that everything in this world is going to be fine? 14. I've never been too good with names. 15. There's dancing behind movie scenes. 16. Howard, the strangest thing's been happening lately when I... 17. So surprised, I fought windmills. 18. It's the sound of my ego spinning out of control. 19. You have to excuse me, I'm not at my best... I've been gone for a week, I've been drunk since I left. 20. Punctured bicycle on a hillside desolate. This should be easy compared to everyone else's. PZ Tags: meme, music
Current Location: killing time pre-church
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: the album with #18
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I have no stake whatsoever in this game, this Super Bowl... but if you aren't sickened by Joe Buck's blatant Patriot rooting... heck, if you aren't sickened by Joe Buck in general, we're watching different games. (sorry pats fans... it's not personal, but really, it's nearly unbearable) Another sign that nepotism is killing America. HALFTIME: My Lord, Tom Petty has turned decrepit. I remember when could do his not-quite-singing bit with range... now he looks and sounds elderly... And I think Raffi is playing lead guitar for him. Ugh. HALFTIME II Well, he found his range again in time for Free Fallin (and skipped the best verse of the song)... He lacks his normal force. We should be able to put our icons in homes where we don't have to watch this... at least it's better than the Stones' disgraceful halftime show a while back. THIRD QUARTER: The problem with quitting the use of all intoxicating substances is that I experience every part of the Joe Buck experience. I had only experienced it drunk, but sober it's even more frightening. Beta-max Bill has zero confidence in Gut-shank-ski, and with the game this close, you know it could come down to that. Passing on the FG attempt to go for it on 4th and 13 was ridiculous... FOURTH QUARTER- Eli Manning just smiled on a football field for the first time in his career. Maybe he really does like the game... although will it replace squash in his heart? FOURTH QUARTER II: Joe Buck does it again.... Tom Brady, under relatively little pressure, overthrows an open Randy Moss. Joe Buck starts with "Tom Brady, under pressure all night." Yes he has been, but he threw that last pass like Kordell Stewart, and it deserves some mention. I'm afraid to tell Joe Buck the negative medical impacts of prolonged anilingus. 2 MINUTE WARNING: Joe Buck aside, it's been one heck of a game. The commercials have been fairly pedestrian, but this game has drama. I do not take this for granted, with my fanhood coming of age in the mid eighties, when a 21 point margin was a close Super Bowl... :35 REMAINING OMG. I have to admit, I was skeptical... Now, what if it comes down to a long Gostkowski FG for OT? Wow... NYG 17- NE 14- WTF!?!?! What a game. My only regret is that the 72 Dolphins are now doing their obnoxious champagne thing. Now Mercury Morris may never shut up. Glad to see them screw up ending the game though... such a random ending to a classic game. Tags: joe buck, liveblog, nepotism, rant, super bowl
Current Location: In front of TV
Current Mood:  frustrated
Current Music: Anything that'll shut Joe Buck up.
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The position, with full unseen pool and whatnot, is HERE., including 4 unknown tiles from current player's rackIt's a relatively straight-forward one at first blush. There are exactly seven tiles left in the bag, with both blanks unseen, and I trail 299 to 323. I strongly suspect, due to an obvious fish the previous play, that my opponent holds at least one, and possibly both blanks, and considering the unseen pool unseen tiles (AANNNOORRSUW??), a bingo, while not automatic, seemed probable. My rack is CEIKRSV. This rack yields one eight, which I did find relatively easily. It also plays at 14A. Pete: Turn 12 | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | | 1 | L1 | A1 | C3 | E1 | | | P3 | U1 | N1 | T1 | | | | | | | 2 | | | | F4 | A1 | Z10 | E1 | | | O1 | N1 | | | | | | 3 | | Y4 | E1 | T1 | I1 | | | Q10 | | T1 | I1 | | O1 | E1 | | | 4 | V4 | A1 | T1 | | | | P3 | I1 | N1 | A1 | S1 | T1 | E1 | R1 | S1 | | 5 | I1 | | | |
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