1502 Commerce St.
Fort Worth, TX
A neat little garden in the city. On this hot Thursday, it’s particularly soothing.
According to wiki, the Fort Worth Water Gardens, built in 1974, is located on the south end of downtown Fort Worth between Houston and Commerce Streets next to the Fort Worth Convention Center. The 4.3-acre (1.7 hectare) Water Gardens were designed by noted New York architects Philip Johnson (1906-2005) and John Burgee (1933-).
During the intermission at Van Cliburn 2025 piano competition concert #3 @ Bass Hall, I did a little yoga in our booth.
Morning yoga @ Arches National Park
… at the Delicate Arch
… at the Double Arch
… at the Turret Arch
So, the British tennis player – wild card – Harriet Dart (1996-; 2015, $2,891,681) becomes overnight sensation due to her comment on her opponent Lois Boisson (2003-; 2021?, $127,741) at R32, “… Can you tell her to wear deodorant, … she smells really bad …” @ 2025 Ope de Rouen: she lost to the French, 0 and 3.
Rouen is a small city on the Seine river, in the NW corner of France, population 116,331. It’s a WTA 250 tourney (April 14-20), winner takes home $275,094, which is far better than the Sarasota Open.
The sunrise
Ok, back to my game today, w/ John, Kurt and Ken: 0-5, 5-3, 4-5
~ 0-5: I lost 3 tie breaks
~ 4-5: we were 4-1 … then at the last point, I double faulted … the two courts certainly adds uncertainty
Seriously?!? 💩 deodorant woman
她告诉裁判员 她的对手需要用除臭剂
这28岁的🇬🇧网球员终于出名了
昨天我吃了一🥚
0-5, 5-3, 4-5
挺郁闷的
… 0-5 输了三个tie break
… 4-5 从4-1 开始… 然后最后一决胜负的俺发球是 double 😹🙀😿
…
不过这28岁的除臭妞应该更…
这大妈的心眼也忒坏
别人遭殃她开心 [Lol]
I bid a slam and we made it! What a winning night of bridge.
This is the third hand of the night, with 32 hcp: me 21 and partner 11. 4 aces and 3 kings.
I dealt and opened with 1NT, which is incorrect: should be 2N.
My thinking goes: open low, so others have a chance to bid, especially for my P. With 21 points on hand, their hands share 19 points. IF I were to open 2N, I could face 3 passes (?)
Bid 4NT: asking for aces = how many do you have?
Bid 5NT: asking for kings
The hand is played at 6♦️, which my partner played. It’s safer suit to play diamond (I’ve A K 9), instead of spade or NT, which I get to play.
Hooray: bid 12 and made it! [愉快]
问完了A 再问老K [调皮] 最后叫了小满罐 & 赢了 第一次叫的
小🐔冻
整晚 好牌
Happy Monday
Chess doesn’t make much news. But today the reign champ and current #1 Magnus Carlsen (1990-) who had won five times, said “I’m out, f— you” and quit the FiDE tournament in New York over … eeehhh … a pair of jeans.
He’s from Norway and won the championships five times.
Why the regulation? It seems so passé.
PS. New Yorker followed up with an article a week later, titled What Carlsen’s jeans have to do with chess.
In talking about chess, a Chinese male Ding Liren (丁立人, 1992-) from Wenzhou had won 17th (2023-4) world chess championship; and Hikaru Nakamura (中村 光, 1987-), is perhaps the wealthiest chess player.
Chess ♟️ 国际象棋
News: Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen quits championship tournament over a pair of jeans: ‘I’m out, f— you’
国际象棋大师马格努斯·卡尔森因一条牛仔裤退出锦标赛: “我退出,去你妈的” [偷笑]
大概没听说过 与时并进 [偷笑]
象棋本是没啥颜色的游戏. 如有人喜欢奇装异服来比赛 我会欢迎: 三点 牛仔 天女散花… 通通欢迎
… 不化
小喜欢郎朗多过李云迪 因为朗spunky虎头虎脑活泼些 有些眼前一亮的感觉 虽然很短暂
因为这个新闻 发现丁立人 (1992-) 以前都是ni🇨🇳女娃拿女子冠军
前不久有🇨🇳个男娃拿过冠军🏆 庆祝 … 不过他现在排名22 看来是burn out 倦怠 (?) 不知道’倦怠’啥意思 谷歌翻译给的 = 厌倦? 娃还年轻 希望他找到自己喜欢的路
🇺🇸 Hikaru Nakamura 应该是象棋界的富人. 可幸好的棋手不一定都需要睡汽车吃垃圾
… ok it’s 2025, where do you go to play?
It’s a kind of punishment for kids … I’m taking it today bec my serve hasn’t really improved.
