I just finished playing two games of spades with Matt Pendleton. It was another string of two great games with excellent teamwork and some timely luck. The first game was an easy victory against significantly inferior opponents. In the second game, our opponents actually had some idea of what they were doing, although they were somewhat strange.
One of them claimed to be female, throwing out an age/sex/location announcement completely unabated. She said she was 26/f/texas, meaning she is 26 years old, female, and from texas. Naturally I responded with 73/m/antarctica for myself. I was having enough of a laugh at this, but then she says back, 'where's antarctica?', and she's totally serious. So I say, 'south of new jersey'. To which she says, 'oh, i didn't know that'. Priceless. Later on, her partner said something along the lines of 'HEY P [short for partner] I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO, BUT MY BALLS COULD USE SOME SUCKING'. Or something frightening along those lines. I mean, they were just weird. And dumb.
But getting back to the game, our opponents managed to pull off a double nil (bidding nil without looking at your cards), taking a commanding lead in a game which we had previously been dominating. We aggresively tried to go for a set in a 10 bid hand, but fell one trick short, taking three bags. At that point, things looked grim, but all was not lost. On the last hand of the game, Matt bid 6, influencing me to go double nil. Making both the dnil and Matt's bid gave us victory. At the end, the psychotic male opponent claimed that we were extremely lucky to make a dnil and a 6 bid at the end. Well, all I can say to that is that it must be great to have a selective memory like that. I mean, to be able to forget about his team's double nil only a few minutes earlier must be really advantageous, right?
In softball news, I have a bunch of people telling me there's a good chance they'll make it. So we'll see how many of those people actually show up. I'm hoping for 16-20.
Work was simultaneously frustrating and rewarding. I think that's a good thing.
I didn't study any Physics 112 today. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. If all goes right tomorrow, poker will occur following the softball game and I won't get a chance to study tomorrow night either. That means I'll have to finish my notes on Thursday, which really isn't a bad thing.
Posted by Shane at June 10, 2003 11:58 PM