Two annotations, five rambling recaps. To the games: Game 1 vs. Connie Breitbeil (W, 435-337) I walk into the playing room, not 10 seconds elapse before I hear Connie say: "You lost to a 700?" This after she said in Battle Creek: "Aren't you the one who just keeps missing qualifying for that national tournament?" Yes, according to CGP, if I died tomorrow my Scrabble legacy would be failing to qualify...

Almost forgot about 101 list updates... 44. Hit 1750 by May '09 (the 1,001 days end at the end of May) (Nice to check that one off!) On the docket for this weekend: 46. Play a Hudson tournament 50. Win at least five Scrabble tournaments in the 1,001-day span, including one Div. 1 (No. 1: Division 2, Fenton, 9-8-07) (No. 2: Late bird (open), Fenton, 9-9-07) (No. 3: Division 1, Elyria, 10-13 and...

Or, as I've taken to calling it, "the two-day miracle." To the games: Game 13 vs. Kevin Colosa (W, 406-328) Thanks to Kevin for passing along a digital copy of the "BAT Winners" pic ... and for his accidental phony three, which allowed me to bingo and take control early. (Equity loss: 55.9) Play the game Game 14 vs. goldfishbw (L, 282-436) If memory serves, Bradley said this was the...

OK, if I want to get all these annotations posted before Hudson next weekend, I better get cracking. Skipping the early bird for now (Why? 'Cause I said so) and starting with my main event success. To the games. (I wanted to supply more color, but then I'd be another week adding to the annotations ... just too many good stories to share, esp. since what happens at Cheesecake Factory stays at Cheesecake...

So I've had a bunch of thoughts about Albany that I've been turning over in my mind the past couple of days. The majority of them good. Time to put them into word, I suppose. You might have heard (from magratheazaphod , or perhaps some other source) that I broke 1700 this week. And this is indeed the case -- my midpoint rating was 1776, and despite having a rough Day 3, I believe I managed...

I'll probably post again at least once or twice about the tournament with some kind of other information, but. My goodness. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop and for my opponents to start getting the luck, but it just never happened. Good thing I'm not playing the late bird.  First off, major props to everyone for doing so well. I am so so proud of tailskid  . He played a fantastic...

Cross-tables.com Forums Please discuss the forums, and pay attention here, in the forums themselves . :-) Huge thanks to cesarsalad for inspiring me to finally install the PhPBB forum software and for graciously allowing me to host the forums!

Someone going to Albany BETTER bring a Mac, since cesarsalad DIDNT BRING HIS! A mass videochat is in order from Middle-of-Noahwhere Oregon and Albany.

So I finally broke down and started Aerolithing the other day. It's crack plus Prefab Sprout's "38 Carat Collection" compilation, pretty much, so yeah, I'm hooked. Thank you/damn you, cesarsalad , sir. Fact of the day: Go to Andy Kaufman's Wikipedia page and check out what his middle name was. What a badass. I wholeheartedly approve of this.

I had a chat with "greenblood" on aerolith this evening. He lives in the Toronto area, and wants to "learn the whole dictionary" before he drops into a Scrabble club. I encouraged him to consider it sooner. He wants to know who GordonShumway is. I told him I would ask around. Aerolith is a great site, thanks cesarsalad   !