... to distant Danbury, CT. "Distant" here means "less than two miles from the New York state line". The key attraction here, aside from an excuse to spend a weekend not thinking about work, was a bridge tournament. The director for the "newplicate" game for people with fewer than 200 masterpoints was quite friendly. In between the two sessions on Saturday she held an open Q&A session for people...

...current examples of promotions, including promotional risk, which enable companies to give away cash and large prizes, within a profitable business strategy. I recently read something on bridge:  “The best is the enemy of the good.”  If you are getting 95% results, to try and squeeze the extra 5% out may cost so much that it is not worth the effort.  However, as George C. Scott said, “The...

My keys are next to my computer which is quite unusual, they're usually in my handbag so I don't forget to take them out when I got, but today they're here.  I like my keys, they're mine, I own them,...D.  Lipsy, reduced from £65 to £35.  I'm such a girl.  I also had the best bath ever, candle, bubbles, Celine Dion's 'Miracle' album (the one that came with the Anne Geddes photo book she did), mmm.

Went along to the university bridge club for the first time in ages. It was quite good. I played with Ben, who's very confident, but was very sleepy this week; but that probably worked out well as I hadn't played in a club for ages, and so without a lot of fussing about details we generally seemed to know what the other was doing as well, and to guess if not the right contract, at least a good guess...

Every morning I look out my window At the Williamsburg Bridge I open the window And look out every morning To see if someone else is there Walking on the bridge Or looking out his window too But there is no one Except for me And a painter on the Williamsburg Bridge In this big city The Williamsburg Bridge, 1928 by Edward Hopper

drivingfastgustingwindsintersectionscrossingboardersfree. Probably one of the best pictures I've ever taken, disregard it being from a phone.

Today me and dad went to Shrewsbury for a nose about. Even though we visit there fairly often, there is usually something new to see X3 Today we went from the abbey, up town and i looked in sohos for...via some other shops, then to one of the bridges and generally just just had a wlak round the whole town ending at the castle. About the only place we didn't go was the quarry ;p