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A weekend in New York.
Had a great time this weekend. I combined the ACPT with seeing my stepbrother's New York acting debut and having a chance to catch up with him and my stepsister and her boyfriend.
ACPT: Congratulations to Tyler! And congratulations and condolences to Trip and Francis for their amazingly parallel performances, with identical scores on all 7 regular puzzles and then identical, sigh, mistakes on the final.
Me? I had a mistake (the crossword equivalent of a typo) on puzzle 2, but I smoked the toughest puzzle, puzzle 5, and managed to cling to a spot in the top 10. And, more satisfying on a personal level, I actually beat Kray for the New England title. As far as I can recall, he's always edged me out for it when we've both been in the same region, but this year I got it.
Family: A's play was great. He had a small role (one of the watchmen) but he did some great physical comedy stuff with it. And he and M and J all seemed to get a kick out of the tournament finals. A completed the C final puzzle in under 15 minutes; maybe I should get him to participate next year... :) Plus, I found out from them on Sunday that A, after accompanying a friend to an audition for the Actor's Studio to do a scene with her for her audition, was basically chased down and asked to apply himself! So go A!
Friends: As always, it was wonderful to see you all. I talked and laughed and ate (too much!) good Brooklyn food. The biggest laughter came from a moment that it is hopeless to try to explain to anyone who wasn't there. But let's just say my ribcage hurt afterwards from laughing so hard.
ACPT: Congratulations to Tyler! And congratulations and condolences to Trip and Francis for their amazingly parallel performances, with identical scores on all 7 regular puzzles and then identical, sigh, mistakes on the final.
Me? I had a mistake (the crossword equivalent of a typo) on puzzle 2, but I smoked the toughest puzzle, puzzle 5, and managed to cling to a spot in the top 10. And, more satisfying on a personal level, I actually beat Kray for the New England title. As far as I can recall, he's always edged me out for it when we've both been in the same region, but this year I got it.
Family: A's play was great. He had a small role (one of the watchmen) but he did some great physical comedy stuff with it. And he and M and J all seemed to get a kick out of the tournament finals. A completed the C final puzzle in under 15 minutes; maybe I should get him to participate next year... :) Plus, I found out from them on Sunday that A, after accompanying a friend to an audition for the Actor's Studio to do a scene with her for her audition, was basically chased down and asked to apply himself! So go A!
Friends: As always, it was wonderful to see you all. I talked and laughed and ate (too much!) good Brooklyn food. The biggest laughter came from a moment that it is hopeless to try to explain to anyone who wasn't there. But let's just say my ribcage hurt afterwards from laughing so hard.
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Sounds like a fun weekend.
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Great to see you, and to puzzle again with you.
We should make an offering of Oreos to appease the puzzle gods, to keep those nasty typos away. At least that's my current theory.
All the best!
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And congrats to Tyler too!
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:-)