Week 2, Day 3

friday 23 january 2015 

major chemo brain mishap in the first deal of the day in the morning session of the buffalo winter sectional tournament in the main-transit fire hall in amherst. i think the black cards in my hand are spades and bid them. partner judy kaprove supports with a 2 spade bid. i don't even notice the opponents doubling us. turns out those black cards are clubs. i have only one spade. we go down three vulnerable. it's a bottom score. 

nothing like a kick in the head to bring things into focus. a few pieces of nut bread from the snack table and the stomach starts feeling better focused too. by the end of the game, mind and body and bridge game are relatively well aligned. judy and i score a respectable 52% and earn a fraction of a silver master point. good enough for me. fatigue is settling in. 

but first a stop at northtown toyota to have them tack down the top panel on my electric window controls, which has been loose ever since they fixed the window. oh, it was just a loose spring, the service rep says when they call me out of the customer lounge 10 minutes later. wrong. i slide into the driver's seat, lean my left leg against the door where the window controls are and up pops the top panel. this time they take 20 minutes and i doze off trying to read in the customer lounge. their solution? glue. not mechanical. not elegant. but so far it works.

home for soup and some sort of nap during the second hour of "all things considered," just enough so that staying in bed longer seems counterproductive. it's nearly 8 when monica leaves work, complete with a plan to meet with friends marti and jim at the vietnamese seafood restaurant i've long wanted to visit on niagara street. the restaurant and its magnificent fish tanks did not disappoint us, but despite soup and tea, i was chilly. and getting cranky. 

however, sitting here at the computer with what must be my seventh or eighth cup of tea today, the furnace cranked up and five layers of clothing (T-shirt, long-sleeved shirt, sweater vest, golf windbreaker and the longsleeved fleecy thing monica bought a couple weeks ago), contentment has finally come back.