by Wayne23 » Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:08 pm
1/12: Back and forth. RUN! UP 12 after 10. Up only 1 at the half. Run! BIG run! Up 24 with 10 to go. The front court is immense! They come back.
65-62. We just fell asleep. They got it to three and missed a 24 footer at the buzzer. We didn't win, we escaped! 23 TOs, the most in my three seasons here. 12 of them happened in the last 8 minutes. Mill, Heno, and Ross, our 3 guards, had 5 each. The other team had 22 TOs but still...
25, 5 for Mack. 17, 4 for Haus. Wall and Star spent the night in foul trouble and they didn't do much. That's rare for both of these consistent players. Our backcourt just plain got beat, 7, 9, 12 to 26, 4, 9. They had 7 TOs to our 15.
+11 RBs helped a lot. We had 4 more buckets (on 12 more attempts), but were -6 from the line.
We've played better.
7-8, 2-2 Illinois ST is here. They have a very good PG, but we think we're better at every other spot, and we think our bench is better. They play good D but have trouble scoring. Their PG's one flaw is that he turns it over. We will double him if it's close.
We're back in the top 25 at #19. 16-1, 4-0. 3 teams are one game back including Drake who, after losing their first 12 have won 3 straight. Weird!
3 more games without Brad.
I win my 3rd poker tournament. It came down to straight flushes. Mine was led by an 8, hers by a 7.
1/14: Power outage! It only lasted 3.2 seconds according to the computers, but it felt like forever. The two most deadly things that can happen on a space ship are a hull breach and a power outage. The auxiliary power didn't kick in. That's a death sentence for everyone on the ship who isn't close to an oxygen supply, which they would be most unlikely to find in a pitch black ship.
When the power came back on there were lots of wet trousers! Emergency back up was the first thing the emergency crews looked at, as everyone went to their emergency stations. In this case those stations were portable oxygen supplies, which are located pretty much everywhere in the ship.
1/15: The preliminary investigation has found no obvious cause for the power outage. The computer crews are saying this may well be related to other things they've been finding. The first was the skewed stats for grains, which I spoke of earlier. Since then three other disruptive programs have been found buried deeply in the software. None of those were in essential systems. It would make no sense for whoever is doing this to kill power. The perp would die along with the rest of us. It takes a minimum of several hundred people to keep the ship going for more than a few days.
The Captain and the Governing Council have made the investigation into the power outage the #1 priority on the ship.