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I am still at work for just a few more minutes, but I noticed on my webcam that it is snowing back at my apartment. There is actually white stuff on the ground. Not much, but some. Can’t say I’ve really seen that in the last couple years since I moved to Florida. Three cosmic enigmas, one audacious answer
(via Digg) For the first time in quite a long time… a new graph!
Of course, sometime I should update the old graphs too! So, I’ve been working my way up the Chessmaster Personality ladder. * Cassie (Rating 23) – Beat on first game Then the trouble started * Petra (Rating 311) – I was crushing her and about to deliver mate and the GAME CRASHED. No record of my game remained. I played her again and crushed her again. Please understand… I have made sure to record every move of every game of chess I have played… or even started to play but not finished… since I was in 8th grade. I suck at chess, but I had been sure to do that. Every game. But when I play computers, I don’t hand write down the games. Because when it is over I can save it or print it or whatever. I now, for the first time in something like 20 years, have two games I played that I do not have the moves for. I suck at chess. Badly. So it isn’t like these games are to be studied or something. It is just something I have done and been proud that I’ve had a complete set. Now I don’t. This isn’t quite as bad as the email meltdown of 2004, but it is up there. I now know that I can not play Chessmaster 9000 unless I want to take the extra effort to hand write every move as a backup. I have yet to decide if that is worth it. Chessmaster bastards. (And yes, I installed the two available patches to make sure I am completely up to date. Those supposidly fixed the bugs it had with Tiger, but perhaps there are new Rosetta bugs that they haven’t fixed yet.) Anyway, I’m very unhappy at the moment.
This was a few weeks ago. I am negligent. But we had an open hands meeting at my job. It was in a neat old theater. A bunch of execs got up and said interesting things and answered questions. Including of course the CEO. One of the presenters mentioned my group. That was good.
In any case, I’d seen some of the original Peter Sellars ones many years ago as a child, or maybe as a teenager, but certainly not since. I think I saw some of them with my dad. So while I have some vague memory of them, I don’t have any specific memories, so I wasn’t really doing much comparison against them on this new version. Anyway… I am not generally much of a fan of physical humor, but Steve Martin is really good at it and this was a funny movie. I found myself not wanting to laugh, because it was just plain stupid, but laughing anyway… because it was just plain stupid. I thought Steve’s accent could have been better. But it was played for laughs, not reality, so OK. This was not a movie about plot or characters or anything like that. Just a continuous series of sight gags and physical humor and the like. It had me chuckling, Brandy laughing and shaking her head that it was just wrong, and Amy laughing uncontrollably for 90 minutes straight. So I guess it did its job. I think though that it definately was that kind of comedy that is aimed at kids and such. It was an OK time. It was funny. I laughed. But it wasn’t particilarly memorable. I am alrerady having trouble remembering too many of the details and it has only been a few days since I saw it. And my main thought at this point is just that I really want to watch some of the old ones to compare. Obsessed tourist ‘marries’ dolphin
(via Daily Kos) So, after the Moody Blues concert and a few hours sleep, it was time to go to the airport again, but this time Brandy and Amy were coming with me for the first time. The main reason was that Amy was interviewing for private schools. The options in the public school are not ideal. So we’re looking into these possibilities. Who knows what will work out, but we’re crossing our fingers. We have applied to six schools, four of which had interviews scheduled for this trip. In the order we visited them: At most of them in addition to Amy getting interviewed, Brandy and I also got to see the places. At some Amy got to actually attend classes and such for part of the day. All three of us have some pretty strong opinions on the schools (some good, some bad). But I shall refrain from saying anything in a public place like this until we know which (if any) Amy gets into. There are two more schools that we haven’t gotten to see in person yet, although it may happen over Amy’s spring break at the end of this month. The official deadlines to apply to all six of these were past before I even started my new job and we started figuring out the school options. But all six let us apply late given we were moving into the area. And the response to Amy at the schools where she spent the most time and we were best able to judge seemed to be pretty positive. But you never know. Things could work out. Or not. We could figure out how to pay for these. Or not. But we are optimistic for the moment. And it was very good having Brandy and Amy here in any case. It has been awhile since I posted. I apologize. It has been a busy time. I had just gotten into the new apartment. I needed to get up really early in the morning to catch my plane, and I didn’t have any sort of bed, so I just stayed up all night long. Then I went back to Florida. We did a number of things in Florida. But the main reason for me being back this particular time was for Brandy’s Christmas/Birthday present…
A Moody Blues concert. That is the stage before it started. It was good. I don’t think Amy was quite as impressed though. She spent most of the time under her poncho hiding and playing games on my phone. But it was good. :-) And it was good just to be back “home” for awhile longer. |
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