Good times, blights and crashes

We've been having a good time lately. After last weekend's hike, we've been feeling good. The weather was nice all week (until Saturday) and the nicest time of year is here.

Some of you will be pleased to note that I now have a bridge blog where I will now be putting any detailed accounts of bridge games, hands, etc.

When Saturday turned so dismal we decided to play bridge. Normally we would go all the way to Westwood (about 35-40 mins) because they have a very competitive game. But this weekend there was a sectional in Rhode Island (drawing the better players) so we decided to try Dean's "Good Timers" game at the Bridge Spot in Woburn (only 20-25 mins). We had a good time. Dean runs a very nice game there. We didn't suffer any terrible fixes (the bridge equivalent of a "bad beat") and we received a handsome number of gifts. That's the thing about playing in games where most of the players are new to the game. There are a lot more fixes and a lot more gifts. You have to hope that the latter outweigh the former.

Our first year of growing vegetables appears to have been a failure. Not an abject failure, because we have been receiving our "share" of wonderful fresh organically grown vegetables. But the squashes that Charlie planted do not seem to be doing anything. Surely we should be seeing them by now? And all the tomatoes got the blight. Apparently, the early wet weather this summer has precipitated the worst tomato/potato blight in years in these parts. So yesterday (Shh.. don't tell anyone how late we were) I pulled up all of the tomato plants and put them into garbage bags.

But just as you think everything is going well, life throws you a curve ball. My server down in New York which has been hosting PartnershipDesk for the last three years has crashed quite badly. Both the power supply and the motherboard were fried it seems. Since I don't believe in coincidences, I would imagine that the power supply failed and in turn zapped the motherboard. There's still a perfectly good processor, two mirrored hard drives (of which I now have one) and the memory to salvage if it comes to that. Meanwhile, I have to get the site up and running again!