Bridge

Psyching is hilarious. My hand is: CAKQxxxxxx D7 HKx SAx.

(For those non-bridge players reading along at home, I'll add explanations in italics.

A, K, Q, J and T represent Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten; numerals represent numbers, and 'x' represents a small card where it's unlikely to matter which. C=Clubs, etc.

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The question is, is there anything else this hand could do in the bidding? It sounds like if there's no spade bid, it should try to find out if there's 6-8 honour card points opposite, and if not give up, and if so assume five clubs is ok, and then try to ask about aces, and bid 5C with none, 6C with one, and 7C with two. But I'm not at all sure, almost anything could be the right answer.

ETA: Oh, hey. Apparently you can lj-cut a close-italic tag. Hm.

Bike minutiae:

Bike minutiae:

* The back light sometimes goes off when cycling. I infer the batteries jar momentarily loose when going over a bump, and the "on" state is lost. They feel a bit loose. Is there an obvious fix? I tried taping the batteries in place and it made no difference.

(I sort of want some electrically conducting putty to go between the battery and the contact :))

* Last month, the front gear cable snapped off from the handlebars. The bike man from university cycles fixed everything (thank you!). This week, the rear gear cable snapped. I'll take it back and get it fixed too, but any suggestions as to why?

Is anything likely to cause both to fail? Did something snag the chain? I might have changed gear up from the highest gear on one of them, but I don't think I did on both of them. Did someone sabotage my bike, but sabotage the gears instead of the breaks? Do the cables just last a very specific number of months??