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August 17, 2005
chess club
i sorta belong to this chess club. i say sorta cuz we've only met like 4 times, and i botched up a couple other meetings(apparently i organize these events). in any case, we met last night at momi toby's. i was so stoked about the meeting place, because we used to meet down in the mission, mainly cuz that's where most folks lived. it's a bit of a haul to the mission, especially since i'm really no longer riding my bike, so i'd have to leave earlyish. joel moved up my way, so i decided to try momi toby's since i figured there were no real hills coming from the mission. oh, ok. it's right down the street from my house, and i wanted to be close like that. geeez...i've gotten so LAZY.
this is joel and dave b's game. i think they played like 3 games in the same time it took for me and dave p. to finish ours. i need a lot of time to think, what can i say?
i was also happy about where we were playing b/c i know i really like the momi toby soup, so that's what i had for dinner. the guy behind the counter was super nice. he played johnny cash and the clash the whole time we were there, and sang along right out loud. who needs kareoke bars? (wish i'da taken a pict of him...shoot)
^this^ is my and dave p.'s game. i haven't played him in a wicked long time! it was a good game, but i noticed that i was having a difficult time talking and focusing on the game. with the exception of some initial rant (that i still don't know quite why i went off on), i was wicked quiet last night, which was interesting...i guess i got a lot on my mind too...
all the quiet thinking paid off, and i had my very first stalemate, where i didn't take back a single move! this is so friggin' ultimate for me. we're talking the very pinnacle of my chess career here dude!
then i played joel, and it was the loosest game i've ever played. i felt so good about the results of the previous game, and because i played well on sunday, i just played mostly without thinking. of course this led to a lot of stupid losses, and me running my king around the entire board in the end, literally, to eventually be pinned down. i lost miserably, but i enjoyed the game.
i'm realizing now, that perhaps these picts would be more interesting if there were more people in them. you can kinda see dave b. in this one of dave against dave. joel said the winner got to keep their name, and the other was kinda screwed. lucky for them they reached a stalemate too.
of course i started a new pair of sox yesterday. dude, i totally crank'em out. i'm at the toe of this fine rowan 4 ply soft lace anklet sock in just one day!!! 'course, parta that's cuz i didn't post anything yesterday morning, and knit and watched TWO TOWERS (disc 2) instead. and you thought i was being a slacker....no, i was being obsessed.
this morning i listened to a.c.newman while posting this. i really like the battle for straight time cuz it makes me think of that scene in rushmore where max fisher is getting off the elevator in the basement of the hotel, after having released the bees in bill murray's room. i don't know why, cuz the actual song they play is a who song, inninit?
Posted by Meagen at August 17, 2005 05:15 AM