back (phase 2)

I am indeed much more alert this morning. Per my prediction, yesterday was the worst day of the cold; also, I am not singing the concert whose rehearsals begin this evening, so I will go home after work and put away the things I didn't put away last night, do laundry, etc. Today in between work tasks I will arrange payment of my bills, try to sort out my calendar, make some shopping lists (!), and so on.

Spring cleaning comes early over here, when a person is recovering from the ick. :-D

Forward.

WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?!

So by virtue of having beat the other three teams in the four-way tie head-to-head during the first session, my Wednesday team has been relegated up into the Senate league.

Okay, let's back up: our competitive curling league, the Capital league, has two divisions, the House (lower) and Senate (upper). Each season has four sessions; at the beginning of the first session, the skips peer-seed one another's teams to determine initial rankings. Following each of the first three sessions, the bottom two teams in the Senate league move down and the top two teams in the House league move up. It is thus possible for a team that was underestimated to advance to the top of the Senate league and win it all. Likewise, a team that gets seeded into the Senate league but is out of its depth up there can find its level and not spend a whole year getting creamed. Customarily, though, the two teams that drop from the Senate league after the first session spend the second session beating the pants off everyone left in the House league and move back up for the third, and the two teams that rise from the House league after the first session get their heads handed to them in the second and drop back down again.

So we were not at the top of the standings for the first session, but we were in a four-way tie for second place; and as we had defeated each of the other tied teams (and as there is no rule in this league about not being eliminated without losing an extra game [g]), up we go.

Thank god we all know we don't belong there. I confidently expect to be relegated right back down in two months.

[wibble]

(Further updates after a meeting I have to go to soon.)

further update (part 1)

I can now report that skip=999 is as far back as you can go. So I've missed a few days before and after the 25th, but I skipped back to some time on the 27th and have been reading skimming the backlog; most of it is yuletide recs and general good wishes (with extra helpings of GOP-candidates-as-Buffy-villains and that-privilege-meme), so you'll forgive me for not reading it all in detail. I am now, with most of the day's work-work done and lunch eaten, at skip=350 and off to get my allergy shot, which is strange for me to have on a Monday, so I'm glad I remembered.

that was the year that was - 2007

A week into the new year and I'm just about catching up with the fact that 2007 is over. So, a couple of weeks later than usual, here is ( 2007 in review: )

DCFOLK

Can anyone pick me up at BWI at 8:30 pm on January 21 (MLK Day)?  Looks like the best thing has me flying out of DCA (to which I can take a bus or a cab) but back in to BWI (from which I could take the supershuttle, but I'd much rather owe someone a drink).

[bats eyelashes]

GIP

Here is NoRMaN #2, at nap time.  The light was v. bright behind us; I painted out the back door, but I like the lighting, yeah?  (I'm distorted with cutout and she with ... something else, I forget what.)

Also, WELCOME BACK JON AND STEPHEN zOMG I MISSED YOU GUYS.