After steadily playing virtual trivia for the for most of 2021 & 2022, in 2023 our pace slowed and then stopped. To be fair, this stoppage was mostly because the game we had been joining most months hasn't hosted a new virtual game in May, which appears to be largely because he's now back to doing in person trivia 3 or 4 nights a week. Since he is ( Read more... )

Since our May summary, we did trivia four more times with groups of varying sizes. Here are the results:

Date# on TeamScore in First Three RoundsScore in Second Three RoundsFinal ScoreFinal RankingPoints Off of First
June 76111225Tied 11th-21
August 26151934Tied 9th-13
September 13415.521.5375th-9
December 20514.518.533Tied 7th-13
As you can see ( Read more... )

Our last week in Los Alamos seemed jam packed with activities compared to our first two weeks.

Monday, September 12

Bandolier National Monument is very close to Los Alamos and White Rock, adjoining Valles Caldera National Preserve. M had been there on her previous visit and wanted to go back, so off we went to the main visitor's center, which is ( Read more... )

M and I continue to do virtual trivia monthly. As members of the original group have dropped out, my sister and brother-in-law have joined in, as have M's friends Kris and Sara. We haven't had quite the same run of success because none of us is super great at audio rounds, but we've had fun anyway.

Date# on TeamScore in First Three RoundsScore in ( Read more... )

In my many years of radio hosting, I gave away innumerable tickets to concerts and movies at locations throughout Cleveland. I myself haven't called any radio station but my own as an adult, but I did win a prize as a kid back home in North Dakota ( Read more... )

Our virtual bar trivia pace slowed down significantly in the second half of the year because the host started doing live trivia in bars again. On top of that, our friends had some personal life conflicts come up, and many of their other friends dropped out. The end result was that we only managed to participate in 6 trivia nights after June 22 ( Read more... )

As we suspected would eventually happen, our weekly online virtual trivia is being reduced to once a month because the host is going back to hosting events inside actual physical bars ( Read more... )

Over the years I've enjoyed an occasional round of pub trivia, usually with some success. Selected highlights include ( Read more... )

Since my last post I went to two baseball games as well as Chicago, which delayed my prior post enough that this one covers more days than any other summary to date. It also adds a lot of restaurants.

Friday, May 17 - We went to the Orchestra to see my friend Dashon perform. For comparatively late night eats, we stopped in at Woodstock BBQ. The ( Read more... )

As noted at the time, I did not write a last weekend summary for September 28-30 because I was in Colorado for the whole week. I did get some photos posted relatively quickly after the event, but a fuller summary was lacking. Now the record of my second trip to Colorado in 2018 is, if not complete, at least as complete as it is going to get ( Read more... )