Towards the Bridge

Monday was simply a relaxing day. Warm weather 33 or thereabouts and pleasant. Went for a long walk around the hotel and adjoining ‘District’ shops etc. Has a passion for a bagel and smoked salmon for breakfast so that was a bit of a mission solved by the hotel buffet but at $6.99 it seemed to be reasonable given I didn’t eat anything else.



Gambling has been going OK with small advance on my ideal ending position of ZERO.


I really didn’t sleep well last night so go to bed early.


Sorry forgot to share this sign I saw on the side of the road (subsequently downloaded from the internet)

Tuesday was headache day! I had a one from the moment I woke up till I went to sleep and as a result it was a relaxing day being my last day to myself. I went to the Outlet Centre to get some ‘corporate’ shirts for my darling daughter and despite being there with a sole purpose I managed to spend almost three hours there but didn’t buy anything for myself.

That night I went to ready the computers for the online bridge only to find that one was on the fritz with a corrupted disk. It limped along and would be OK for the first day of bridge after which I could buy a DVD drive and copy one computer to the other – Wednesday night’s task.

Wednesday was game time. 08:30 and I go and set up the computers and webcams and go to the welcome breakfast which is always lovely on the patio around the pool but you have to get their early to get a place in the shade – inside information thingy. I take some photos which is included in my job description.

During the day I get a message that my dog-sitter wants to resign after this stint as she isn’t comfortable in the area which is surprising as I feel safer there than I did in Paddington but I guess as a single female who doesn’t drive and may have to walk home late at night I can understand how she may feel. So with a 3-4 week trip planned for September/October I have to find somebody as kennelling the dogs isn’t an option so if anybody knows anybody……

Everything goes really well the first day no glitches, dropped connections etc. In fact I only do nine of the 54 boards as there are two other operators who are very keen to do sessions and a third casual one who decides to do two matches as well. Anyway I am not complaining but do like doing the operating. Anyway I sit in my room and do some commentary which is OK too.

That evening Michael and Vivien arrive and we settle in for a lovely dinner at Hank’s, the fine dining steakhouse in the Hotel/Casino. Ashley Bach joins us after he arrives at the hotel from his German home.

Back to my room to fix the computer which takes a mere 12 minutes and all is good again. If you haven’t heard about my gambling it is because there hasn’t been much but enough for it to head slightly South of zero.

The website for the event is www.cavendishinvitational.com where you can read the Bulletins and see the photos as well as all the conditions of the contest, entrants etc.

Oh well not much else so catch you all soon

XX David