Two club bidding

 

At clubhouse, my Lefthand opponent Ira opened with a pass. My partner Mark called two clubs, and said ‘you’ve to response.’ A pass followed. I answered with 3 clubs.

My hand is weak, with 8 points, with 5 low clubs cards, which was my longest suit. Since it’s informal and I’ve been asking questions on my bidding, Mark said ‘2 clubs’ meant a strong hand and not necessarily mean in club suit. 

A few notes for  Two Clubs bid and responses:

  • 22 points to open bid (doesn’t show/deny club suit)
  • 2D response bid = a bad hand, 0-6 points (doesn’t show/deny diamond suit)
  • 2 No Trump bid only needs at 20-22 hcp with a balanced hand.

 

a few hands from last night with the girls

We chitchat a little between hands. And sometimes after a rubber or twenty some hands (22 hands here), we tend to loose focus. This will be the time we make mistakes. Most often, by playing the wrong card. Such as, one intends to use ♥️ to trump but instead plays ♦️. The dummy is usually keeps a tape on things, like who goes and if it should be led by the hand on deck. All the times, such mistakes were only pointed out afterward. No one, not even the partner would say a thing. And I like it a lot: at Guandan or other kind of card games with my fellow countrymen, oh boy, do they talk and cheat!

 

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The shower door

3-5 (resumed the set at 3-4), 5-1, 4-1 (time runs out …)

Another messed up day – I went to the wrong location, again. The threesome (Bruce, Al and Greg) found another player, who is graciously bowed out when I arrived. Thanks Bob.
I promptly went to work, and heard the score wrong – thought we were up. Oh well.

While I was in the shower at clubhouse, a Chinese put her stuff on the locked door. It’s so o-d-d.

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A dragonfly by the pool

Played really well: 🎾 5-0, 5-2, 3-5

A good victory 🎾 赢的干净利落 [偷笑]

👇 这是啥东东呀?

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A good match, a good swim

A pretty competitive match with two Gregs and Jim: 4-5, 5-2, 5-4. GJ lost all three sets.

I started the day in the dark, and served first in all 3 sets.

The first set, GJ and I lost first 6 points, won the 7th and lost the 8th. There went 0-2. GJ held his serve but we lost the 4th game. It was a pretty good come back.

This month, I swam 26,560 yards / 15.09 miles in 660 minutes, which equals to 43’73” per mile. … with two hurricanes in between: Helene and Milton.

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The best opening hand

The first hand of the night: 18 hcp. I bid 4♥️ and made the game.

Toward end of the (the 16th hands) night, I bid 3 NT and ended up winning a grand slam.

The evening went smoothly and I ultimately played the majority of the hands.

My question for the evening is, would you have to play a great hand with little thinking needed, or a even hand that requests some brain to win?

您喜欢一手好牌不要用脑筋 还是 平均牌 需要技巧?

 

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Swim & tube @ Kelly Park

400 E Kelly Park Rd,
Apopka, FL 32712

I get to swim at another springs!

This swimming area is at Rock Springs state park, (visit Florida) which is very close to Wekiwa. Because of current, many people and families come here to tube. Water is shallow and refreshing.

A water snake swam by me.

There is an outdoor shower with weak water, but it’s good enough for a quick rinse off.

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Swim at Wekiwa Springs State Park

1800 Wekiwa Cir
Apopka, FL 32712

… more pix Yelp and Google Maps.

Couldn’t have been any better than this!!! Clear springs at 72° temp year around – it’s heaven on earth. School of tiny fish is seen. Two park rangers walking by, I asked them about the distance to the bridge.
“Ehhh I don’t know. It’s not job requirement,” he joked. “Will add this one then,” he said.

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Free vs breaststroke

I timed free and front crawl separately:

  • free (no flip) +front 1320 yard in 32 min = 43’28”
  • breaststroke 560 yards in 16 min = 50’45” per mile
  • free (flip) 600 yards in 12 min = 36’58 per mile

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85th birthday

A friend’s mom is turning 85 today!

8am tennis: I played well but came up short. NJ, Graham, George: 5-0, 3-5, 3-5. It was a really nice game.

Did 200 swim / stretch after tennis. This morning was pretty cold, smell of autumn!

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Milton; 65 degrees

Hurricane Milton: eggs and milk are out @ WalMart delivery since Helene. There was a brief time that had eggs and milk but ran out quickly as Milton approaching. They’re till out, as of today, Oct 15. I had an order coming on Saturday, Oct 12, from Weee (they’ve eggs and milk) but had to cancel on Friday – still no power. Once the power is restored on Saturday morning, I placed the order on Sunday with WalMart, the first available deliver date is Thursday, Oct 17th – normally it’s within a few hours, which is why I’ve been using it. No milk, eggs and lemon till Oct 18.

~ swim log ~

At pool today, Matt said he was fine during the hurricane and he didn’t even loss power – I don’t know where he lives, assume not too far. He corrected me that the heater stops working once the temp hit 65 degrees. I previously thought was 55°.

Hurricane Milton, per wiki, as of 2024.10.15:

  • Formed October 5, 2024
  • Extratropical October 10, 2024
  • Dissipated October 12, 2024
  • Fatalities ≥27
  • Missing ≥6
  • Damage >$30 billion (2024 USD)

Timeline:

… some swim

  • 10.20 36’46” per mile; 24’14” 1,160 yard
  • 10.31 1,000 in 23 minutes

        

 

… and the tennis courts need clean up, on 10.10

 

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