good morning

1. This hotel has the Sleep Number bed, which as it turns out is essentially the Air Jordan of mattresses. You can pump it up or let it down; and if you choose a softer option, then when you move the whole thing wiggles under you like an air mattress, only without going flatter and flatter all night. Not sure this is a feature.

2. If you would like to guess my yuletide fic, I will write you a drabble or something like it. Not today, but I will.

curling update

The good news: we are only scheduled to have three games tomorrow and one Wednesday, after having four today. Four a day is more than a third again as exhausting as three a day. I am v. v. tired, and two more days of this might kill me.

The bad news: we might well have four games tomorrow, and will almost certainly have more than one on Wednesday.

More good news: I know and am comfortable with the procedure for breaking a three-way tie for two places at Nationals. Not only that, I can articulately explain my reasoning and point to the page in the rule book that backs me up.

More bad news: Nobody who is likely to be involved in such a three-way tie (and has asked about the possibilities so far) likes the procedure as I have explained it. The odds are overwhelming that people will argue with me. The odds are even decent someone might file a grievance. (They'll get nowhere, because I'm right, but GOD. In fact I think they'll have to file a grievance with the Rules and Championships Committee, not with the Officials Committee, because there'll be no way to prove we've done anything wrong, since we will have been acting entirely within the rules as they are currently set down. Such a grievance will also go nowhere, but what would make it better would be that it would have nothing at all to do with me.)