#3GoodThings
1. Returned to my #geminicapsule
2. Remembered how to use #mutt to send an encrypted email. I now see that the instructions I followed are from 2000. I stick to CLI, tools like ssh, sftp, pine, gopher, because they don't have frequent, shittifying updates.
3. The three streams of the #2026CausewayChallenge were outstanding. I appreciate that each stream featured a man and a woman commentating team, one American and one Canadian, even though North Americans slept.
#ThreeGoodThings

Watching second game. It's frustrating for an intermediate player to see Thai experts miss IMPIETY and EXEC(UT)ION, but these are not English-as-a-first-language players.

OTOH, Nigel Richards was mentioned on #OnlyConnect for winning national #Scrabble tournaments playing in languages he does not speak.

Got to watch Nigel play down o2 SEJEANT makiing ODA and ION for 123.
#2026CausewayChallenge

One town's very like another
When your head's down over your letters, brother
It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
To be looking at the board, not looking at the city
What do you mean? You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
Tea girls, warm and sweet (Warm, sweet)
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
Get Thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
#2026CausewayChallenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQVJtTaFZx0
2026 Causeway Challenge Day 1 Table 2

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#Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don't know what the city is getting
The crème de la crème of #Scrabble world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner
Time flies, doesn't seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa had the tile gods in it
All change, don't you know that when you
Play at this level, there's no ordinary venue?
It's Iceland, or the Philippines
Or Hastings, or, or this place
#2026CausewayChallenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUVP3wA-T_s
2026 Causeway Challenge Day 1 Table 1

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