My left hand is good for when i'm knockin on wood, although i gotta admit that it hurts

My boy J.T. takes on the world dominoes tournament in his Sunday column in the Courier.

I actually watched the last 45 minutes of said tournament the other night on ESPN 2. Unfortunately, it appears that unless you were around sometime in the first 15 minutes, you didn't have any description of the rules or insight as to why players were making certain moves.

I think i know the general idea behind dominoes, but this coverage involved the announcers saying what each person played with the occasional "don't know why he did that" thrown in. Basically, they would play for a while, then the announcer would tell us who won.

J.T. has a great part in his column about the World Chillin' Championships. as anybody who knows me can attest, i would be a prime candidate to make the final snack table of that tournament.

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Well, the team i picked to go 2-and-Q at Omaha ended up winning their first game by ten runs or so and my team i picked to win it all was one out away from losing their first two. An improbable comeback saved the day for Fullerton, who has the arms to make it all the way despite an opening-day loss.

and my generically sweeping predictions continue to be startlingly specifically inaccurate.

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I rediscovered I'm fat this weekend. Couple that revelation with my thus-far successful water-focused diet, and i think i might actually be kicking off a success bid to lose some weight. this happens successfully once every 23 years or so, so i'm probably due.