Monday Morning Bridge Library

 Monday Morning Bridge Library

As you know, I keep up a weblog (blog) containing information for Monday Morning Bridge.  The blog contains or references to the popular weekly analyses of hands by Vic Johnson and Glenna Shannahan, videos on bridge, and documents pertaining to bridge.  As of January 31, 2022, the blog has: 

• 154 Bridge Hand Analyses
• 7 pdf documents
• 10 references to YouTube videos with a link to the YouTube video
• 17 BBO references including 2 videos
• 9 references to other information 

It is good to have this much information.  The problem is how to make it available to everyone. 

A blog is not the best way to handle this much information.  A website would be better, but I do not want to develop or pay for a website.  I could probably do both but that would be too much like work and I retired to do less work instead of more. 

I decided to attack this problem by putting these pages into a database and developing Google Sheets from the database.  Google Sheets is Google’s version of Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet program, and its main advantage is you can develop a Google sheet and it can be available to anyone with a computer device (pc, phone, IPAD, etc.)   The other advantage is that Google Sheets is free.  

You can reach this information, I hope, by clicking on this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sDV5u4lEHPDSNc94aoIdMEavIzbJYgOMKJo_nPKjMm8/edit?usp=sharing

Assuming you reach this information, you can scroll down to the bottom of the Google Sheet spreadsheet that comes up on your screen.  You should see five tabs. Click on the tab to see the following information:

• GlennaVicAnalysis – Lists the weekly bridge hand analyses by Glenna and Vic.  It is organized by subject and then date (latest first).
• BBO – Lists information specific to joining and playing on BBO
• Otherblog – Information not in GlennaVicAnalysis
• PDF – Written documents in pdf format
• Video – Links to YouTube videos

You will note in many of the Google Sheets spreadsheets you will see a column labeled ‘Subject’.  I tried to define the piece of information in one word so that the approximately 200 pieces of information could be ordered using the columns in the Google sheet.  Whether people, other than me,  can reorder these sheets is another issue in which I believe you can do when you are in Google Sheets. I intend to keep the Google Sheets spreadsheet up-to-date each week.

I fully understand Google Sheets may not allow everyone to reach this information because the screen on their telephone is too small to see a spreadsheet, they have never seen a spreadsheet, or they do not know how to function in a spreadsheet.  However, this is the easiest way for me to keep up with the information and add more in the future.