Update of very little

It’s been a while since I’ve put a post up on this blog, because I haven’t done anything worth posting in a while. And I still haven’t, truth be told. My Scrabble life has been basically stagnant since Illinois. I’ve been itching to play a tourney, but nothing has worked out. The Sunday Philly 7-gamers are too far away for me now that my friends (and thus my place to stay) have moved from West Chester. The big Baltimore tourney in September fell on a bad weekend, as did a one day DC club tournament. I played a few times in the weekly sessions at club this summer, maybe I’ll try to hit that up more often. I have my sights set on Atlantic City (assuming Eric will want to go), but there is an outside chance that I will be in Denmark at that time.

My studying has gone down, because I don’t go to the gym as often (I memorize words while doing cardio) but I still make time. I learned a set of 10 or so new stems in the past few weeks. I’ve also been playing on-line a lot. My averages are all up. I only dip below 20 pts per play during really dry spells, and I’ve been as high as 23 pts per play. I think with a little luck I could really gain some NSA rating points at my next tournament. Also, Eric has been teaching me some new words during his routine beat-downs of me. He’s getting really good (living in the middle of nowhere can help you Scrabble game, apparently). I can give him a game though, and I beat him just enough to not get completely frustrated. Recently I put up nearly 600 on him. My big play was DEMENTIA – a 3x3 for 140 pts. Nice find.