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A serious paper-chasing kind of day...
Mar. 2nd, 2003 07:28 pmMy amazement regarding Sasha's miraculous recovery after only one set of seizures was short lived. At around 4 am, she started having them again. I dosed her again with her meds, but this time, the pill did not do the trick. A few hours later, I brought out the big gun (Valium) and that seemed to settle her down, but she is still seizing, although not very often. I hope she's better by morning.
* * * I tried to go back to sleep after the dog got me up, but it was a fruitless endeavor. So, I did some catch-up work on the ATA Slavic Languages Division Website, adding a link to the latest copy of the SlavFile and a set of links, via thumbnails, of photos taken at the annual SLD dinner in Atlanta. Everything seems to work.
* * * The rest of the day was a pretty serious day to open mail, sort papers, throw stuff out, and listen to another set of Kiyosaki CDs. (Galina's already listened to them, so it was my turn, and since we're going to Denver on Wednesday to hear him speak... well, we agreed it would be a good idea for me to have listened to them at least once.)
So, I'm all sorts of full of good cheer and positive attitude right now... all that's left is to actually implement what the man says.
* * * Seeing as how it's hard to find chess games around here, I resurrected my U.S. Chess Live membership, but haven't played too many games quite yet.
The setup of the site is similar to that of the Internet Chess Club. Basically, by playing games you earn a rating in several categories (blitz, standard, and I forget what else... at this point in life, I couldn't care less about ratings). You can challenge specific people to a game, or you can scan a "graph" of play "ads," where players leave requests along the lines of "I want to play a 5 minute game against someone rated between 1500 and 1900."
A "5 minute game" means that each side has five minutes for all of their own moves. Theoretically, the game cannot last more than 10 minutes, and that assumes that both sides use all their time. I dislike this type of time control, since clicking and dragging pieces on a screen is not as clean as doing it in real life.
Anyway, the site offers tournaments and master analysis, quizzes, lessons, and associated features to people who upgrade to "royal membership" for about $6 a month. Right now, I'm at the free user level, and unless I get more comfortable with this system than I did with ICC, I'll probably stay that way.
Of the four games that I have played so far, one was a win in less than 10 moves against a poor computer program (programs of various strength are pretty much always available for play). A second was a loss in a 3-minute game (what was I thinking!), and yes, the loss occurred because I ran out of time.
A third game was played with a 10 minute time control, and I won that, as I did the fourth (although I only had 29 seconds left on my clock when the game was over).
* * * I had no calls for translation last week, which is pretty amazing. Last month was also fairly mediocre as far as billings are concerned, although they're enough to live on if I cut expenses moderately. Here's hoping that March will be better.
Cheers...
So, I'm all sorts of full of good cheer and positive attitude right now... all that's left is to actually implement what the man says.
The setup of the site is similar to that of the Internet Chess Club. Basically, by playing games you earn a rating in several categories (blitz, standard, and I forget what else... at this point in life, I couldn't care less about ratings). You can challenge specific people to a game, or you can scan a "graph" of play "ads," where players leave requests along the lines of "I want to play a 5 minute game against someone rated between 1500 and 1900."
A "5 minute game" means that each side has five minutes for all of their own moves. Theoretically, the game cannot last more than 10 minutes, and that assumes that both sides use all their time. I dislike this type of time control, since clicking and dragging pieces on a screen is not as clean as doing it in real life.
Anyway, the site offers tournaments and master analysis, quizzes, lessons, and associated features to people who upgrade to "royal membership" for about $6 a month. Right now, I'm at the free user level, and unless I get more comfortable with this system than I did with ICC, I'll probably stay that way.
Of the four games that I have played so far, one was a win in less than 10 moves against a poor computer program (programs of various strength are pretty much always available for play). A second was a loss in a 3-minute game (what was I thinking!), and yes, the loss occurred because I ran out of time.
A third game was played with a 10 minute time control, and I won that, as I did the fourth (although I only had 29 seconds left on my clock when the game was over).
Cheers...
