A very sincere thank you to all of you for your patience in our absence and for your witty comments and kind words - thank you.

The tribes have merged but are still divided - Randy, Corrine and Bob vs. Mattie, Sugar, Crystal, and Ken.  Tree mail brings them all envelopes of money which means one thing - auction time!  Randy outbids the team for the first item and enjoys beer and peanuts as the bidding goes on.  Kenny gets a great win by getting to send one person to Exile and taking his/her money - he sends Bob off and takes his $500.  Corrine also is a big winner and for her $500 gets a note which will give her an advantage in the game.  Randy “generously’ buys the group cookies and this turns into a pissing match for control between him and Sugar.  Sugar wins the last cookie figuratively and literally by taking the last cookie and then turning around and giving it to Mattie.  Randy was not happy.

Feeling the pressure, Randy comes up with his own plan, Operation Strong Arm - he will be a royal jerk around camp so they will want to vote him off, Bob will give him the idol and they will blindside the group and vote Susie off.  Randy does his part and works the crowd irritating all.

Immunity is a race across beams carrying puzzle pieces.  The first two who carry over three bags first join Corrine in the final round.  Mattie and Kenny join Corrine and the challenge is to line up the pieces like dominos on a beam and the first to have them all fall just right so as to knock the ball in the cup at the end wins.  A close race but Kenny wins!

Back at camp Sugar tells Bob if he gives Randy the fake idol she will “make it worth it”.  Bob gives the idol to him and all head to tribal feeling that their side is going to pull a fast one on the others.  In the end, Randy was the one blindsided and Sugar and Crystal sat back and laughed like school girls.

Bye Randy - I hope they have lots of clips of you at the Ponderosa.

Topics:

• Can you overthink things in Survivor?
• Too much of anything is still too much

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Break Music:  “If Only” by Her and Kings County from their album “1609″

Podcast:  AS20081120.mp3

Bad wind: still blowin’.

Our sea legs: in place.

Unless you hear otherwise, we’re on for tonight!

We don’t know.

Wish we did.

There are people who will no longer be on our Christmas list, though.

You people, though — we miss.

This sux.

Same crap, different week.  We miss you very much and thank you for your support.

Marji, Mike, Gabrielle and Nicholas
Where ever we may be