Friday roundup...
Oct. 26th, 2001 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI spent the early morning and then most of the afternoon at the shop, going home to catch up on some invoicing and miscellaneous maintenance tasks in the late morning.
I came to the realization that the impetus for my having put up a zero-tolerance-for-stupid-remarks sign at work was more of palliative measure than anything substantive, so when Galina took the sign down as we showed up to open the store, it seemed simply the Right Thing to do. Note to self for future: listen to your gut more.
In any event, it's not as if we've abandoned our zero-tolerance stance; we're just not going to make a point of splashing our policy onto everyone's legs as they walk in the door.
In other news, I finally canceled my Houston ISP account. I have replaced it with NetZero, for those times when I'll be out of the Pagosa area. Unfortunately, NetZero doesn't provide service to Pagosa, but the way I'm looking at it, I'm still saving money over having an account in Houston. My first experience running the NetZero software was less than thrilling, as it does not seem to play well with Mozilla. I just have to figure out whether this is important or not.
Lee called to say she was planning to visit in the Thanksgiving timeframe. I like the idea, as it places the entire family (except for my folks, who generally Do Not Travel) in one convenient place for the turkey holiday. It would be nice to have everyone here. :^)
* * * I picked up a database of chess games in which the opening played is my favorite, the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit. Ego prompted me to see how many of my own games had made it into the collection. As of several years ago, the number of my "published" BDG games stood at three, one played back in 1969 against a fellow from Klamath Falls, and two more played in the early 1990s. I do not delude myself with the idea that these games are of some higher order of quality on a par with grandmaster games, but others appear to think they are respectable amateur efforts.
A search of the database elicited several more hits, and besides the game that is listed as lost by me (which I actually won), I am somewhat at a loss to explain how those several new games made it into the database. I certainly have never published them, and it is doubtful that the losers would have. I'm not complaining, though; except for my faux loss, all of the games that were included are wins by me.
Be that as it may, I am happy to report that my ego is in the same sad shape it was before I opened the database. With any luck, I can bring the information in the file to bear on the ongoing section of friendly correspondence e-mail games that are about a half-dozen moves into play as I write this.
I am playing the so-called Lemberger Countergambit in all of my games as Black, just to find out more about it. Back in the "early" days of the BDG, the Lemberger (arrived at after 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 e5) was considered a dead loss for Black, but today, it's believed to be Black's best defense against the BDG. Go figure.
The real skill in the ongoing section will be figuring out how to find the time to play the games!
Cheers...
I came to the realization that the impetus for my having put up a zero-tolerance-for-stupid-remarks sign at work was more of palliative measure than anything substantive, so when Galina took the sign down as we showed up to open the store, it seemed simply the Right Thing to do. Note to self for future: listen to your gut more.
In any event, it's not as if we've abandoned our zero-tolerance stance; we're just not going to make a point of splashing our policy onto everyone's legs as they walk in the door.
In other news, I finally canceled my Houston ISP account. I have replaced it with NetZero, for those times when I'll be out of the Pagosa area. Unfortunately, NetZero doesn't provide service to Pagosa, but the way I'm looking at it, I'm still saving money over having an account in Houston. My first experience running the NetZero software was less than thrilling, as it does not seem to play well with Mozilla. I just have to figure out whether this is important or not.
Lee called to say she was planning to visit in the Thanksgiving timeframe. I like the idea, as it places the entire family (except for my folks, who generally Do Not Travel) in one convenient place for the turkey holiday. It would be nice to have everyone here. :^)
A search of the database elicited several more hits, and besides the game that is listed as lost by me (which I actually won), I am somewhat at a loss to explain how those several new games made it into the database. I certainly have never published them, and it is doubtful that the losers would have. I'm not complaining, though; except for my faux loss, all of the games that were included are wins by me.
Be that as it may, I am happy to report that my ego is in the same sad shape it was before I opened the database. With any luck, I can bring the information in the file to bear on the ongoing section of friendly correspondence e-mail games that are about a half-dozen moves into play as I write this.
I am playing the so-called Lemberger Countergambit in all of my games as Black, just to find out more about it. Back in the "early" days of the BDG, the Lemberger (arrived at after 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 e5) was considered a dead loss for Black, but today, it's believed to be Black's best defense against the BDG. Go figure.
The real skill in the ongoing section will be figuring out how to find the time to play the games!
Cheers...
