Kvetch!

Just in case you wondered what "kvetch!" is, most dictionaries suggest it means "to complain persistently and whiningly". I first encountered the word way back when a tamagochi friend sent me the link to a now deceased website, www.kvetch.com, which was a forum for people to complain about anything and everything, and get a friendly hug in return. Frankly, I prefer this extended meaning, even if it might not comply fully with the dictionary definition.
Sooooooooooo... After about 16 hours of non-stop gruelling translation, and 3 hours of nightmares, I got up, made a mug of coffee, logged into BBO and enrolled in an indy in order to wake up. The very first board spelt disaster - and it also proved disasters tend to come in threesomes.
OK, here it is:

2D was alerted as "waiting", merrily we rolled along to 4S, and went down 2 a bit later.

Sunshine: sorry p, but u cant bid 4 !S with 5 points
fractal: p, you had a 6-loser balanced hand, why open 2!c?
Sunshine: plz plz plzzzzz
fractal: sry about that game
Sunshine: npp

Well, at least we didn't get into a cat-fight about it! I wasn't being hypocritical, either - I did feel sorry about the game, but not about the bid. I still think - and I might be wrong - that bidding 2C on a balanced 6-loser with 19HCP is not the right thing to do, and Sunshine will probably continue to do that. Different strokes...

The second disaster was very funny; unfortunately, it involved one of the BBO-starred players I love to kibitz best! After I recovered from the initial shock of playing WITH a star (somehow, playing against a star is less intimidating), we got this wonder deal:

The 4D bid was, naturally, a splinter - and Star, naturally, looked at my profile and, deducting that it cannot have been a splinter, bid 5D. Yours truly had a dilemma: if Star thinks I am a rookie and the 4D bid is not a splinter, he must be confirming a diamond fit, so we can't have slam; if he did take it to be a splinter, then I don't know what he is trying to convey with the 5D bid because I am really a rookie but it doesn't look like good news, so better escape to 5S as a sign-off. And we, naturally, missed a slam!

fractal: glp
Star: thx..sry pd..I believed your own profile :)
fractal: sry - but what do you mean? :)
Star: later
fractal: ok :)
Star: you said: then I am going to bid someth. stupid.....so I was not sure I 4!d was splinter or 8-9 !d s..:)

And just when I thought life couldn't really get much harsher this early am, I ran into PartnerFromHell. He moaned when I led K, and then A out of AKxxx, picking his Q on the second round, and went absolutely ballistic during the second board - so I am really not sorry I passed his forcing bid! If I ever run into him again, I will do it over and over, and then some! - unless I can get him to play his splinter as a 4-level contract at least! I do realise that we can't be nice to everybody all the time, and maybe he is a brain-surgeon or a forex trader whose ex had just left him for the proverbial plumber, leaving behind her hateful cat which had just devoured his favourite gold-fish, but still.. there are limits... And telling your partner "fy" is transgressing them quite a bit.

P.S. Sunshine and Star are not the real nicknames of the people involved. And I removed the quote from "Something Stupid" from my profile, just in case...