Bingos (words using all seven letters) I played at the Scrabble club tonight:
- GROANED
- FAiREST
- AERiEST
- ANGERING
I missed RITARDS – plural of the musical denotation ritard – but it’s not clear I had a place to play it. I had fun, winning one game and losing two.
By the way, we’re at war! I’m not thrilled, and hope things work out for the best over there. Now that we’ve started it, at least we should:
- get the fighting over with as fast as possible – there are thousands of troops in the desert that don’t deserve to be there.
- remember that being against the war doesn’t mean you’re not patriotic. Enough said.
- not injure or kill any Iraqi civilians – I’ve heard all sorts of discussions saying that if we only kill fewer civilians than would have died under Saddam’s rule, we’re doing okay. This isn’t accounting, people, it’s real people you’re talking about. No killing them. Okay?
- not give up on rebuilding the government there as quickly as we seem to have in Afganistan – the Minister of Finance from Afganistan (or equivalent) was recently in the Senate pleading for them to at least give them some of the money we’ve promised. So far, I’m not impressed though.
- remember that we had a lot to do with causing the trouble in Iraq – many people seem to forget that the US sold Saddam chemical weapons and the plans to build nuclear reactors back in the day, and they speak ill of the French for helping him. We don’t have to be proud of it, but we should own up to mistakes and not repeat them again and again and again.
posted March 20, 2003 – 7:34 pm
In the mall at lunchtime, I heard some of the worst muzak ever: Madonna. I’ve got nothing against Madonna. Heck, I’ve even been known belt my poor falsetto along with ‘Like A Prayer’. However, Muzak versions of ‘Material Girl’ and ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ proved bad enough to send me from the mall like Iraqi soldiers from Saddam.
posted March 19, 2003 – 11:25 am
Well, there was no singing at the Pi party on Saturday, but there was lots of pie and some amazing other desserts. Look for pictures soon, but not too soon, as I left my digital camera in New York on Sunday night. I’ll have it back this weekend…
Happy Purim! Someone (the Purim Fairy?) left a little package of treats on my doorstep this morning – thanks to whomever it was!
I’m signed up for Ben’s Scrabble Tournament this weekend and somehow got placed in division 2. Yikes!
posted March 18, 2003 – 7:13 am
Happy Pi Day!
Also today (technically sometime around 8 PM), I am one quarter century old. It’s nice to know that rental car companies can no longer gouge me for being young, instead they can only gouge me for returning cars without gas, etc. Some festivities are in order, so I’m having a small dinner tonight and a big party tomorrow. Every year, the big question at the Pi Party is: will there be singing? This could be the year…
posted March 14, 2003 – 8:05 am
Bob Levey, a columnist for the Washington Post, hosted an online interview/discussion with John Williams, director of the National Scrabble Association. Check it out here.
posted March 12, 2003 – 7:38 am