Today's Bridge: Lots of sets to start with, but the opponents managed to make a partscore, which left us on the defense. I went for a 4C sacrifice that wasn't horrible, but with A-K-J-9-x-x in the suit and just a doubleton queen of hearts outside, it was probably a big mistake. Finally, I had S A-10-x-x-x H A D 3-2 C K-9-x-x-x, which was just enough to open 1S in fourth seat (bidding Precision with Jerry). He responded 2S, so I had to jump to game just on the distribution. He had S K-9-x H x-x-x-x D K-Q-x-x C J-x, also a fairly minimal response. The opening lead was the king of hearts, so I led a diamond right away, finding the ace on my right. Dan returned another heart, which I ruffed, and I crossed to the queen of diamonds to lead the jack of clubs - queen, king, ace. Ken cashed the ten of clubs, then led the jack of diamonds, which I ruffed. My only hope at this point was to find the Q-J of spades doubleton, so I ruffed a low club (the split was 3-3, fortunately) and cashed the king of spades, drawing no honors. Oh well. I crossed back to the ace of spades and claimed off one thanks to the established clubs. I don't think I had a better hope than that - I needed to avoid losing two clubs, but I don't think there was a way I could do that given the actual distribution.

Today's Work: I think we got all of the problems solved, but the task lead suggested that I should leave early to pick up my new glasses. I did that. Things look even weirder than they did with the previous lenses, but I expect that to go away once I get used to them. It still takes me a while to focus on text, but I hope that will clear up in time as well.