Totally Unauthorized

And perhaps the worst performance in many a year.

My team managed the impressive feat of tying for fifth through eighth in the loser Swiss.  Can’t get much less exciting than that.

The big news?  Linda Gross and Nancy Munson won the Saturday Open Pairs, while Mike Lippitt and Bob Munson came in second.

Lots of other placings, I just don’t have the results for the tournament yet.

We had dinner Friday night at Bistro Montrio–really, really good.  Small plates or large–I had three of the small plates: chorizo stuffed dates wrapped in pancetta, braised short rib risotto and their BLT—bacon, lobster and tomato sandwich.  It was great.

The service was excellent, too.  Which it had to be, because the leading lights of our district saw fit to move the evening start time up to an utterly unreasonable 7:00 pm.  I guess they think we should all just eat a hot dog at Der Weinerschnitzle and get back to the game.  Or maybe they are too cheap to have a decent meal.  Or maybe they don’t want the people playing the seniors to be able to eat at all–their game ends at 6:45 by the time the scores are posted.

The evening session used to start at 8:oo.  People had time for a pleasant dinner, a nap, sometimes a little sex, too.  The district board is obviously too old or disinterested in sex, they do their napping at the bridge table, and they clearly don’t want anyone to have a decent meal.

People notice that there are no young people playing bridge, then change the starting times to ensure that no you person could possibly ever want to play.

Color me disgusted.