It's the 19th so time for another update.

Happy birthday (slightly belated) to my wonderful sister.  The first of many 39th birthdays to come.

Sorry to see that none of my friends or 'bridge friends' had a particularly spectacular Detroit.  I'm looking forward to Las Vegas.

Reading the Lone Wolff (my friend Joanie bought me an autographed copy.)  Interesting to read about Bobby's Texas days (we both went to UT,) and his references to Jonathan Steinberg, George Retek, and trying to prevent Ottawa from getting its annual regional.  Fie on you Bobby Wolff!   It seems like he names names if he dislikes someone and doesn't name names if he likes someone (for instance, he refers to a convicted bridge cheater but refuses to disclose who that is because that person has since reformed) and so far he hasn't mentioned in any detail the main thing I was interested in hearing about (his removal from the Nickell team.)  (Never mind, I just hadn't gotten to the Hamman/Wolff chapter.) But still, overall a good read.

LOTRO still has me hooked.  Now I'm playing on the 'dark side' as a rank 6 Uruk Warleader against the players.  PvP as it's called (on LOTRO they call it PvMP,) is much more stimulating and interesting than PvE.

Was amused to see a thread get deleted on Stacy's blog.  There've been a few heated conversations on there (during the Shanghai Venice Cup thing for one) and she lets people express themselves pretty openly.  What got the thread deleted?  Obscenity/vulgarity?  Spam?  Harassment?   Gee Jon, you only make 1 post a month, shouldn't you make it a decent one?  Yeah, my bad, sorry.  I couldn't find this post when I went looking for it again and thought it had been deleted.  Anyway, the article below is a good one if you're looking for a pet so I'll keep the link up. 

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http://www.arkonline.com/birkin2.html


Here's a very funny video: