Totally Unauthorized

Back in the room between sessions.  I’ve been out to dinner 7 nights in a row, and couldn’t take it anymore.  So a quick jaunt to Costco to buy scrip, pick up some Vietnamese food and I’ll just eat here and take a nap.  Nationals are great, but exhausting.  You don’t want to have so much fun you just collapse and can’t play a decent game.

Part of why I’m beat is staying up too late last night watching the Vanderbilt on Vugraph.  Life is easy now that you can just long in to Bridge Base Online and kibitz great bridge from all over the world–or 24 floors down in the hotel.  The Nickell team was playing Zimmerman, a team from Europe.  The match was close, with Nickell behind.  That’s the most interesting, of course, watching Hamman and Zia try to make a miracle happen.  Which they almost did, but couldn’t quite carry it off.  But it took until 1:30 am to find that out, while I sat here enrapt in front of the computer.

I certainly hope that the people who qualified in the Red Ribbon pairs had more sense than I do. Locals  Blair Hoffman and Jim Kuhn (8th), Tom Franklin and Brian Eisenberg (41st), Susan Ledford and Tanya McCully (74th), Ching Chao (91st), Grant Robinson and Terry Boyd (111th), Reggie Williams and Dennis Teifel  (121st), Patricia Perry and Shirley Rodenborn (127th) and Keith Gunn and Dan Rubinfeld (129th) all made the cut for the second day.

In the Silodor Open Pairs, the open National event, Ed Nagy and Jeff Polisner qualified 6th.

Shirley Nedham and Susie Wiebe qualified 46th in the Whitehead Women’s Pairs.

Randy Corr, Pat Krock, John and Lynne White won the compact KO consol, bracket 4.  Marj Russel and Carroll Brooks were 3rd in the morning KO, bracket 4.

Many more are still fighting it out in the KO’s.  Micky and Linda won two matches yesterday, I think, because they dazzled the opponents with their matching argyle sweaters.

Nap time. Have to play good tonight.