No scrabble tournaments in Seattle?

I'm planning a week-long trip to Seattle next year, and wanted to take in a Scrabble tournament or two. Although there's a scrabble club there, they only hold 1-day tournaments, nothing NASPA sanctioned.

Ah, well.

Anyway, it should be fun.

I was checking Mt. Baker lodgings on the internet, and came across Snowater Lodge. Isn't that a nice name?

I'm really looking forward to seeing these gardens:

The Butchart Gardens remains a family business and has grown to become a premier West Coast display garden, while maintaining the gracious traditions of the past. Today the Gardens has established an international reputation for its year round display of flowering plants. Throughout the Gardens historical perspectives are set up at viewpoints, where mounted photographic images show the view from that location as it was when The Gardens were being developed.

 IN fact, I might make this a new travel goal... visit a show garden in every state in the Union.

Mt. Baker lodgings are typically time shares which are pretty nice. The only drawback is that there's no internet there - were are talking remote.  But, I can deal with the peace and quiet of no internet if I have to!

Memorial Day Tourney in Texas

I had intended to go to this event, taking place near Dallas Fort Worth, but just have no time. Bummer

Scrabble Display at Laramie County Library

Until May 16, you can see a Scrabble display on all three floors of the Laramie County Public Library here in Cheyenne.

Photos from 2013 Cheyenne Scrabble Tournament for ALzheimers

We raised $700 at the 1st Annual National Scrabble Day Scrabble Tournament For Alzheimer's, which was held at the Cheyenne Depot on Saturday, April 13 (which is National Scrabble Day.)

Thank you Janet Lewis for taking the photos below and sharing them with us.

 

 Two rows of tables for our players

 

 

 Alzheimer's Association Table

 

 

 Aspen Wind Table

 

Raffle held by the Alzheimer's Association

Not shown, table of Home Instead Senior Care (located at other side of Depot room)

  

hand-made Scrabblequilt raffled off

 Raffle prizes consisted of gently used items donated by volunteers, as well as items from businesses

Funds raised were from entry fees and raffle ticket purchases, businesses purchasing program ad space, and generous donations from a few employees of Hughes Integration.

(Businesses who supported us, in alphabetical order:  2 Doors Down, Aspen Wind,  Cheyenne Auto Repair & Service (CARS), Cheyenne Warriors, Corey Rang of Farmer's Insurance, Mitchell's BBQ, Peak Properties, and Your Cheyenne Computer Tutor.

Fourteen Scrabble players took part in a round robin format, with each person playing four games. At the end of four games, if there'd been ties, we would have had a play off, but one person, Brook Shaffer was the winner at 4-0, and our 2nd and 3rd place winners were 3-1 but with a point differential.

Janet Lewis of Aspen Wind took a few photos for us. (We had three display tables, one from Aspen Wind, one from Alzheimer's Assocation, and one from Home Instead Senior Care.)

1st Annual National Scrabble Day Scrabble Tournament For Alzheimers

1st Annual National Scrabble Day Scrabble Tournament For Alzheimers was held at the Cheyenne Depot today. (April 13 is National Scrabble Day.)

More details tomorrow when I should have photos to post.

Take your blood pressure medication!

Spent most of yesterday in the hospital, where my mother was admitted. Her doctor had changed her blood pressure medication a couple of weeks ago, it wasn't doing the job. Unfortunately her doctor was out of town and a home therapist said we should take her to the Emergency Room.

Bad idea, as far as I'm concerned. Put her back on her old medication which was working, just causing her to cough.

Instead we brought her to the emergency room, and since she's old and deaf, this got her more stressed out and scared than ever, because they were all gathered around her shouting questions and wanting to run tests and I'm sure she thought she was dying or something, which sent her blood pressure even higher.

She spent the night there, and is still in today for more tests, which I don't think she needs but I guess since they've got her in there they want to get their money's worth out of our insurance...  she's in a private room which must be costing a fortune....

The reason for my headline... she was about 40 when she was first diagnosed with high blood pressure...took pills for a couple of days but didn't like how they made her feel....so she stopped taking them and tried to do the "natural remedy" thing.

Result, 20 years later she had congestive heart failure, and now instead of taking 1 pill a day she has to take 4. And has to go into the hospital periodically on occasions like these.

Moral of the story - go get your blood pressure checked, and if you have high blood pressure make sure you take your meds, otherwise believe me you'll wish you had, when it is too late...

Never get involved in a land war with Asia

and never agree to transcribe 20 hours of meetings from an Australian business meeting.

That's what I've been doing for the last 4 days...utter nightmare. Could NOT understand their accents. Making it worse were the bad audio levels and the fact that a lot of the people preesnt insisted on talking over each other from all around the room except in front of the microphone... I will never transcribe ANYTHING every again.

Anyway, so sorry to be MIA from my blogs.