The Big 150

Whoopdeefuckingdoo, as I like to say to such occasions which are more coincidences than meaningful events.

I cannot get this one hand out of my head. The contract was 5 Spades, doubled, declarer was East, and the salient features of declarer and dummy's hands are a 5-3 fit in trumps with the AKJxx and 86x respectively, a 6-2 fit in the diamond side suit with Kx and A-10xxxx respectively, one club loser, and xx and AQJ in hearts respectively. After the opening club lead to the Ace with North, the second round was a low trump. Here a safety presents itself, which allows for all 4-1 and 5-0 combinations where North has the long trumps (the most likely scenario, given that North doubled in the first place), by playing low to the first trick. Assuming we can set up diamonds, or that the heart finesse is on (both options can be explored in due course, with plenty of entries), we have no other side suit losers, so we can afford to give up one trick in trumps.

Goddamn I suck balls at this game.

Of course, if I really did suck balls, I wouldn't be able to appreciate how much I suck. Idiots don't know they're stupid, as it were.

Nothing much happened today; I had my usual individual session with Prof. Liu in the morning, spent the intervening period of time finishing up the reading and doing homework, attended my regular 2:30 PM drill class, then finished up the last part of the weekly homework (the 800-word+ essay), and turned everything in at 5:00 PM exactly (the due time, of course).

Then, it was TV watching, some Ba Jin-reading, and a few hours of bridge playing, comingled with a few AIM conversations. Sometime soon, I'll also have to check out the warranty on this laptop, and either break it in hopes of getting a new one, or do something else fun with it.

Oh yeah, I also had buffalo wings. There is a God after all; in His benevolence He saw fit to answer my prayers for more chicken wings. Amen, and God Bless. One more thing, I steal cakes now, chocolate ones, from the dining hall. Bitches.

Old man blog, he just keeps rolling along.

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For my 150th post, I would like to point out that I've done everything I needed to do classes-wise in the past 2-3 days. Huzzah.