kayser update

We (minus teammate K, plus clubmate JV) lost our first game this morning at 8am, mainly by playing mediocre against a team that played very well indeed (and whose skip, at least, had just won the men's 5-and-under a couple of weeks ago, so we knew he had some game). Won our second this afternoon (without JV but with local perma-spare M the College Kid, who played great and we're glad to have him), so we're still alive in the blue-pin event.

insptr_penguin, abka, Evil Lurker, and JT won their first game and aaalmost got their second; down five in the eighth, they didn't give up, and were counting four! when J's draw was heavy, alas, alas. Blue-pin event for them as well.

The two SFs, DB, and MN lost their first game last night and won this afternoon. One more team in the blue-pin event.

sosovirtuoso, RB, JV, and EM won their first game last night and then won their second game this afternoon, defeating Obnoxious Kid (last year's men's 5- winner and mixed 5- runner-up; this year's men's 5- runner up and, now, mixed 5- not-even-that) and his very pleasant teammates, whom we will now see tomorrow morning. So they are still alive in the Big Event, yay them!

I think that's it for local teams. Appreciate all your good thoughts. Banquet now, where I wouldn't bet against there being more beer. Yay!

update update

There was in fact more beer at the party, and many other drinks as well, of which I had just one. We had some dinner and packed it in early; feeling our age, my teammates and I, not that we weren't probably right around the median for the room. I'm the youngest of the three of us, actually; the others may be on the high side of the center line. And in fairness, our college-student spare was still there when we split.

Speaking of our college-student spare, and of the many other drinks present at the party, a large number of them had been (and were being) consumed by this poor wretched cute girl at the next table, whose lifeguard flotation device (literally; the theme is "life's a beach") College Kid had stolen, and she came over to try to flirt it back ... and then came back again and again and again. Our teammate was playing along in a mild and not-at-all-asshole-y way, and it was all very funny, but at the same time as we were all amused (but not obvious about it, though who knows what other tables were thinking or saying), I still sort of wished the floor would open up and swallow her and put her out of her misery. Finally her teammate came over to insist that they go together to the ladies' room, but they weren't gone long enough for that, of course; they were outside the doors and hidden from view for long enough for the teammate to give her a brief talking-to, and when she returned, pouting, she returned to her own table and not to ours. One can only imagine what the teammate must have said; the girl was too drunk for arguments like "you're making yourself a laughing-stock" to possibly have got through.

Her name was the same as mine, as well. That didn't help.