Card counting

As expected, I did not win the $10,000 shopping spree.

This did not prevent me from calling my mother-in-law and breathlessly chirping, "You won't believe what I'm doing *right now*! I'm ... going home empty-handed!"

The single person whose name got drawn from the walk-ups and dropped in with us semi-finalists was also drawn as one of the final five ...so I was rooting for her, just out of a general desire to see the underdog win out. A different one of the five finalists got it, however, so we went away... after using up one of my corollary semi-finalist prizes buying frozen yogurt on the way out. (The last corollary prize -- tickets to look at the model train display which Northpark sets up every year -- will be used sometime in the next week or two. Probably).

And, because I've had a few people ask me about it, here's my list of suggestions on how to play radio contests. Hopefully, many of these are blindingly obvious, but several wouldn't have occurred to me before I bumped my nose learning them.


Guidelines for playing radio contests:
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