RBOC: stars and scrabble

• I haven't been updating my star tracker thing this month, because I got confused about my criteria. I meant to have a separate Plan for weekends, but I didn't explicitly spell it out. I think as long as I go to the gym and don't spend all day hiding in my room, that's good enough, although that doesn't seem star-worthy. I don't want rigid rules to get in the way of fun things, though, because socialising is also part of The Plan. Maybe I should have to do something productive if I don't spend time with other people. That could work.
• I didn't even go to the gym today or yesterday, but I think what I was doing instead was a better (and more fun) use of my time, so I'm happy, but I'm not sure what to do about the stars. Can I just skip those days, or do I have to start over?
• I also didn't do my reading on Friday. Since I said I needed to do 20 hours of work a week, I've been worrying less about doing anything at all on weekends, since that was generally non-work productive stuff, anyway. Maybe I'll count Friday as a weekend, kind of, and read tomorrow, since I have to go in to lab anyway.
• Despite these lapses, I am doing a lot more work, so The Plan is working as planned.
• I now have 5 friends in my Facebook network! I added a couple of housemates, but the majority are blog friends. You rock.
• So far, my Facebook Scrabble win:loss ratio stands at 1:2.
• I think my country memorisation efforts will now be redirected towards Scrabble word memorisation. Is there a game for that?
• I also need to work on speed. My snail-like pace is okay when playing someone on the opposite side of the world, since I might only play one turn a day. However, when playing someone in the same time zone, especially someone speedy, it means I can fill all my available time permuting letters.
• I'm feeling unethical about my use of the in-game dictionary. I wouldn't look up words on an external site, but somehow when it's right there, it's too hard to resist the temptation to check that my word is right, or worse, to guess at words, before playing. I wonder if it's possible to disable it.
• Should that comma after worse be something else? A colon or dash or something?
• I think I use too many commas.
• A comma-loving friend whose honours thesis supervisor was rabidly anti-comma was going to add a comma after every word or two in her acknowledgment to him. I was tempted to add several "however"s for my own supervisor (apparently two in 50 pages was still too many for him, although maybe he was remembering the ten I'd already cut).