Monthly Archives: July 2007

Modern Life

Scales

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Well, it’s more ladylike to stand with your legs together!!

Books, Family, Shopping

Reading Harry Potter

Harry Potter

A very exciting day yesterday as we buy the latest Harry Potter book. The deal is What is supposed to be done in such a situation? Do you drop the TV set, breaking it, and launch a front kick? Do you ask the fellow to put it down for a second, pretending you are tired or need to http://frankkrauseautomotive.com/testimonial/honest-friendly-very-easy-purchase/ buy viagra online regrip it, and then scream for help? After all, the thief has broken into your house. Then it demands to levitra 40 mg http://frankkrauseautomotive.com/cars-for-sale/2004-toyota-camry-le-2/ urinate, thus frequent urination occurs. Some patients should also not take viagra soft tabs it because of their medicines. Sexual problem and complication are much in active which are resulting in Divorce and depression in an individual’s personality traits. buy female viagra Junior Poshi can read it first, but then I get to read it before she re-reads it. She finished the book at 2.30am last night. Bless.

Bridge

Operation

So I’m standing at the corner of a card table, my laptop perched precariously on a stack of four dining chairs, my feet sweating in a pair of heels that are too high.

I am a vugraph operator for Bridge Base Online for the Australian National Championships in Fremantle WA.

Correction.  I am a virgin vugraph operator and this is my first official match.

It is the Womens’ teams finals and it’s WA versus Victoria.  For the first time Alida Clarke is playing in the womens’ team.  It has given the whole team a lift.  They know they can win it if they keep cool.

The team is made up of Annabelle Booth, Leonie Shiels, Jill Del Piccolo, Kate Smith, Alida Clark and Leone Fuller.

At my table Alida is sitting North, Leone South and EW are Mary Elson and Diana Jacobs.

So my boards are loaded, they seem to be in order, we begin.

Now at this point let me tell you what I’m trying to do.  As the players bid and then play the cards I’m supposed to follow the action using a mouse and clicking on the card they play as they play it.  Bidding isn’t so hard.  They use bidding cards, they bid slowly, I don’t have to move the mouse around much.  Easy peasy.  Unless…

Unless you miss a crucial pass bid from dealer and then the whole auction is with the wrong pairs.  Yes.  So then as they are about to play their first card, you are (or rather I am) rapidly undoing the last 15 bids and then remembering the bidding (as best you can) so that you can get to the right auction and get the opening lead…

My shoes are a little slipperier, and I thirst for water.

The first board was a lively 6H by South.  Leone plays what seems to be perfectly good cardplay and claims.  Well she claims conceding a trick for one off but I didn’t see that until I was onto the next board.  So a mistake on my first board.  I went back and fixed it manually, apologised to the watching crowd and prepared for the second.

The second board was straight-forward and I managed to follow quite nicely thanks to some deliberate cardplay by the ladies.

The third board was a mess as previously described.

So now my hand is aching.  Carpel tunnel must be a risk for vugraph operators! My heels put me at just the wrong height for my four chairs but I can’t take them off because that would leave me barefoot and someone has just complained about a junior player kicking off his shoes because he finds it more comfortable to play with bare feet, and besides, my feet have been sweating so much I’m not entirely confident they wouldn’t stink.  Also, after a litre of water I need the bathroom… but they’re bidding again.

Three hands pass and I manage – just – to keep up. At worst, it kind of goes, first trick – yep.  Second trick – was that a King she played??? Must be.  Third trick – yep. Fourth trick – ahhhh losing it.  Fifth trick – lets see what she makes at the end.  Claim.

Around Board 7, and the Open Room have their scores in for Board 1.  5Dx – off 4 for 800.  But something’s wrong.  The lovely and very kind (to what must seem to her a chaotic vugraph operator) commentator suggests I have a look at the score.

So now I’m trying to keep up with the bidding, the cardplay and work out why there is a problem with the score.
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I decide to wait til it’s over as it looks okay to me.

Finally we’re on the final board.  It looks pretty straightforward. I let the young girl standing next to me have a go (she can hardly do worse) and she aquits herself nicely.  The team leaves the table.

Anyway turns out the teams were all sitting in the wrong seats – so that’s why the score looked funny to the commentator.  Victoria won 13:30.

Round Two.

Oh did I mention that while I’m typing in these bids and plays, scores of people are watching in from around the world?  Just a little added pressure.

So we go back in the room for the second round.  This time I have my Victorian friends back again sitting N/S and Annabelle Booth and Leonie Shiels sitting E/W.  It’s lovely putting faces to all these names and seeing how they sort their cards and how they like to sit while they play… Leone for example never sorts the cards in her suits – although she does put her suits together…  Mary likes to tuck her legs up on her chair while she plays…

I feel like an insider.

So round two.  I load up the first deal.  It bears absolutely no resemblance to the cards I see Mary and Annabelle holding. Panic!

It is discovered that the wrong deals have been loaded in the machine.  This is a problem.  We abandon the vugraph and my little helper goes off to bed.

Nick from BBO Australia reckons he can get the deals somehow and goes off to do some computer magic.  We wait on the sidelines to see if we are needed to continue.

By the time the girls are on their third board we are back on… but most of our audience has gone.  Just 25 of the 125 are left – bless them.  Still it’s all good practice and I’m rostered on again tomorrow.

This session goes off without a hitch.  I practice back stretches between boards to loosen the lower lumber strained by my odd set-up.  I’m now more able to keep up with the cardplay and can actually enjoy the bridge.

WA are ahead after the second ground, making up for the loss in the first. The score 54:43. [view scores]

Afterward I go into the other room to watch the Open teams finish their match.  The ANC has set up a projector and has a couple of commentators describing the action and telling tall tales between boards so that people can see what was going on.  A bit scary to think that they might view my vugraph stumbles… 🙂

Still I survived and tomorrow is another day.  See you back at the tables after lunch.

UPDATE:  WA won!  Yay!!

Family

The Munticated Strawberry

In my fridgeNumberOneSon chose this treat from the shops yesterday and now the house is not at peace as my two little darlings fight over it.

Someone will be munticated soon I suspect.
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TV

Warning – this is a post about Big Brother

How dumb can the housemates be?  Plenty, with the exception of Alicia who just looks as if she is.

And the producers are not exempt – if they wanted anyone else to be evicted apart from Daniela on Sunday – you know, to make it more interesting for us viewers – they should have told the housemates the deal and given them time to work out their strategies. Stupid.

Blind Freddy could see that evicting Billy was the sensible move – he had the twist and was definitely going to be there for the last week unless they evicted him – they didn’t – and now four of them are up this week with two going.
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Am I surprised by their collective stupidity? No. Will I still watch it?  Oh yeah, sure.

Health, Modern Life

What makes a holiday?

If you’re not going away and you’ve only got a short break – say just one week – what turns time off into a true holiday?

For one colleague who recently took a week off it was making sure everyday she had a walk on the beach, drank a latte, and saw a movie.

I’ve decided for me, this week will be about getting my fitness and health back on track.  I’ve signed up for a FreshStart at a local gym.  This basically means I get a couple of hours workout everyday, a planned diet, a massage and time for me.
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What makes a short break a holiday for you?

Health

A weighty issue

I didn’t realise how much my weight fluctuates throughout the day.  Now that I have scales of course I weigh myself continually. The interest will wear off I’m sure.

By my reckoning my weight changes by about 2 kilos over the day… can that be right?
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Health, Recipes, Work

It’s in.

Yes my application is in and it is amazing how good that feels. Firstly it is an affirmation to sit down and write an application to tell someone you are good, and secondly it’s a relief to have it off my plate.

I guess I’ve been waiting for this to happen for at least 12 months.

Now that it’s out of the way I have space in my life to concentrate on me!  I’m going on a bit of a health kick, one that includes moderate amounts of red wine, coffee and tea.  I’ve been reading a book called “Very Wellness” by a local naturopath Val Allen. According to her ‘O’ blood types should avoid wheat and dairy products where possible. Suits me. I prefer goat’s cheese anyway.

Today I spent a lot of money on exotic weird flours like spelt (which is an ancient type of wheat but allowed), rice and a weird bread called Essene Bread.  I also bought a proper blender for smoothies for breakfast. Yum yum.

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Tonight we had veal steaks “crumbed” in rice flour, egg then sesame seeds and ground almonds.  It was pretty good.

Tomorrow I’m going to try and make her lamb tagine.

I’ve even bought some bathroom scales…

Groover, Hugamuga, Travel

Footy Trip

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Hugamuga and Groover have gone to Melbourne for the 12s Footy Trip…

Here are some photos… sounds as if they are having a great time. They saw a game at Docklands last night and are at the MCG now. They’ve toured the Essendon Hall of Fame, had a game with some local lads, gone on the MCG tour, seen training at the MCG and will go on to see AFL World.
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Meanwhile back at the ranch, Junior Poshi and I have stayed up late watching videos, seen the latest Harry Potter movie and spent a couple of hours after work in the studios having fun making film review podcasts… coming soon!

Health, Recipes

Heavy Metal

It’s rare to come across a yummy recipe that is also not only good for you but able to provide some health benefits as well. My mum had this recipe out as a dip last night at dinner and let me tell you – it is delicious! She sent me the recipe…

Heavy metal poisoning is rampant. It is a major cause of hormonal imbalances, can, thyroid problems, neurological disturbances, learning problems, depression, food allergies, parasites, etc. etc. This is a great recipe that is not only easy to make but also really yummy, and it tells you how to remove heavy metals from the body!

Coriander is truly a healing food. One friend suffering from high blood pressure due to mercury poisoning had her blood pressure return to normal after eating two teaspoons of this pesto daily for only a week. So whether you need to detoxify heavy metals from your body or just wish to use it as a preventative measure, 2 teaspoons a day is all you need to take. This pesto has now become a regular in my diet.

CORIANDER CHELATION PESTO

4 cloves garlic
1/3 cup Brazil nuts (selenium, magnesium)
1/3 cup sunflower seeds (cysteine)
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Two teaspoons of this pesto daily for three weeks is purportedly enough to increase the urinary excretion of mercury, lead and aluminum, thus effectively removing these toxic metals from our bodies. We can consider doing this cleanse for three weeks at least once a year. The pesto is delicious on toast, baked potatoes, and pasta.