Stella Daily (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} stellavision) wrote,@ 2008-03-03 09:30:00 |
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ACPT, Friday night
I want to blog about this while it's still fresh in my mind, but of course I have so *many* things fresh in my mind that this is going to have to be in segments.
Anyway, I didn't end up rushing back to my apartment to get my crossword shoes. Turns out that wasn't the only thing I was a spaz about, as I forgot my cell phone charger (important since my phone was low on juice and I needed to use it the next day to coordinate lunch plans and telltestitest when to show up), and I also ended up buying a disposable digital camera because for the second digital camera in a row, I have lost the charger and couldn't replace it in time. What is it with me and @#*& camera chargers? Of course my camera doesn't have an easily purchased battery type, so I couldn't even get a nonrechargeable replacement to tide me over for the weekend. Oh, well. Guess I'll be breathlessly waiting for everyone else to post their photos!
A lot of people had chosen to fork over $35 for the Cru dinner at the hotel restaurant, but I was still able to find people in search of greener (more green remaining in the wallet, yet tastier) pastures, namelylunchboy and ennirol. We ended up at Pacifico, where I haven't been in at least a couple of years, and my nostalgic memories of the place were correct: it WAS good. I had perhaps the least Mexican thing on the menu ("Veracruz" crabcakes), but hey, it was tasty, and at least I got an excellent chile relleno with it.
The evening activities were fun. Mahhhty Mahhhkowitz, borough president of Brooklyn, introduced the festivities. I was prepared for The Accent, having heard him at Brooklyn Bridge Park movie nights before, but I definitely heard some people around me going, "Whoa, THAT'S Brooklynese." He also inadvertently gave away the answer to the Brooklyn-themed puzzle extravaganza that followed by ending his speech with "Fuhgeddaboutit!"
As for the puzzles themselves, which were Brooklyn-themed, I was too lazy to pre-arrange my team in advance (for non-tournament-goers, I am an A division solver, which means I cannot team up with any other A division solver, and many of my friends are also As), so I ended up solving with the two people sitting nearest me. They were a C and an E, so I knew I was going to be doing most of the work -- which is fine, because I kind of like solving crossword puzzles. ;) We finished in the allotted time, which made us eligible for a prize drawing. I'd never won anything in a random drawing before, but there's a first time for everything, and I got to take home what would be my only prize of the weekend, a NY Times crossword book. Anyway, kudos to Eric Berlin for some fun Brooklyn-themed puzzles that made me all warm and fuzzy inside for my favorite borough. :)
After the puzzles came the usual Friday-night socializing. I got in on Noam's Jeopardy! game, which was a lot of fun even though I got spanked pretty well, at least during the regular rounds. (I got some of it back in Final Jeopardy, though, the reverse of my performance on the actual show!) I made most of my money in Medical Abbreviations, surprise, surprise. (I'd be fired from my job if I didn't know what some of those meant!)
It was also on Friday night thatqaqaq delighted me by informing me that he now reads Project Rungay due to my plugging it here. I was hoping I'd induced at least one person to discover the joy of the PRGayBoys!
More to come...
I want to blog about this while it's still fresh in my mind, but of course I have so *many* things fresh in my mind that this is going to have to be in segments.
Anyway, I didn't end up rushing back to my apartment to get my crossword shoes. Turns out that wasn't the only thing I was a spaz about, as I forgot my cell phone charger (important since my phone was low on juice and I needed to use it the next day to coordinate lunch plans and tell
testitest when to show up), and I also ended up buying a disposable digital camera because for the second digital camera in a row, I have lost the charger and couldn't replace it in time. What is it with me and @#*& camera chargers? Of course my camera doesn't have an easily purchased battery type, so I couldn't even get a nonrechargeable replacement to tide me over for the weekend. Oh, well. Guess I'll be breathlessly waiting for everyone else to post their photos!A lot of people had chosen to fork over $35 for the Cru dinner at the hotel restaurant, but I was still able to find people in search of greener (more green remaining in the wallet, yet tastier) pastures, namely
lunchboy and ennirol. We ended up at Pacifico, where I haven't been in at least a couple of years, and my nostalgic memories of the place were correct: it WAS good. I had perhaps the least Mexican thing on the menu ("Veracruz" crabcakes), but hey, it was tasty, and at least I got an excellent chile relleno with it.The evening activities were fun. Mahhhty Mahhhkowitz, borough president of Brooklyn, introduced the festivities. I was prepared for The Accent, having heard him at Brooklyn Bridge Park movie nights before, but I definitely heard some people around me going, "Whoa, THAT'S Brooklynese." He also inadvertently gave away the answer to the Brooklyn-themed puzzle extravaganza that followed by ending his speech with "Fuhgeddaboutit!"
As for the puzzles themselves, which were Brooklyn-themed, I was too lazy to pre-arrange my team in advance (for non-tournament-goers, I am an A division solver, which means I cannot team up with any other A division solver, and many of my friends are also As), so I ended up solving with the two people sitting nearest me. They were a C and an E, so I knew I was going to be doing most of the work -- which is fine, because I kind of like solving crossword puzzles. ;) We finished in the allotted time, which made us eligible for a prize drawing. I'd never won anything in a random drawing before, but there's a first time for everything, and I got to take home what would be my only prize of the weekend, a NY Times crossword book. Anyway, kudos to Eric Berlin for some fun Brooklyn-themed puzzles that made me all warm and fuzzy inside for my favorite borough. :)
After the puzzles came the usual Friday-night socializing. I got in on Noam's Jeopardy! game, which was a lot of fun even though I got spanked pretty well, at least during the regular rounds. (I got some of it back in Final Jeopardy, though, the reverse of my performance on the actual show!) I made most of my money in Medical Abbreviations, surprise, surprise. (I'd be fired from my job if I didn't know what some of those meant!)
It was also on Friday night that
qaqaq delighted me by informing me that he now reads Project Rungay due to my plugging it here. I was hoping I'd induced at least one person to discover the joy of the PRGayBoys!More to come...
