Here are the reports from the chess tournament on the ides of March:
Blog Post about bringing a Perl book to a chess tournament.
I thought it was quite humorous too. It had been a day that began with me being slightly hostile toward…well, a few things: being moved to another room so my classroom could be used for retesting of the ISTEP and a faculty meeting that had me say some things that ran contrary to most of [...]
By Vergil
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Also posted in Belief, Boys, Coffee Stains, Culture, Indiana, education
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Tagged chess, coercing, Evan, ISTEP, PlayStation, tuesday
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That’s what we call it. Straight from the Jewish Old Testament, every 7 years all debts were forgiven and it was a time of celebration. So, how does that translate over to the boys in our house in 2008?
Simple: PlayStation.
Accuse us of being controlling or applaud us for limiting computer use, but we allow [...]
February 26, 2008 – 2:04 pm
And this is not a rant against not getting the Lilly Endowment for not granting my proposal “Writing a blank canvas: Arctic Canada and Northern Indiana” (There is little distracting about the landscapes of Nunavut, Canada and Northern Indiana. But in writing about place, I plan on crafting an non-fiction essay about the vast beauty [...]
February 6, 2008 – 1:41 pm
It’s the one thing that I can say to Evan that will guarantee a dramatic response. It goes like this:
ME: Evan, how was your day?
EVAN: Eh. Fine, I guess. (Fiddling with a miniature paper airplane as he looks longingly at the PlayStation2 which he’s been ground from for the rest of the week. These are [...]
December 28, 2006 – 1:09 pm
I’ve run my maintence runs for the WEEK 1 of my training schedule and actually I haven’t had so much the “legs tired” or “lungs tight” as much as “why am I doing this?” I ran 3miles Monday, Wed, Thurs…mostly using the Millrace route for now and I’m planning to run the same routes next [...]
Temp: 32 f (and that's what it feels like)
Route: 3 miles (8th to Wilson)
Listened to: Slacker Astronomy, iTunes New Music Tuesday, a few Onion newsbriefs.
Afterward: fine.
I can't complain about the weather: it was a nice morning…in fact, I'm not sure the last time it was this nice out (or warm). Run was fine (I took [...]
February 21, 2006 – 6:11 am
Evan playing 1st Board
Originally uploaded by vergil66.
At the regional practice tourney this weekend, Evan played 2.5/5 at first chair. The team just missed third place.
December 8, 2005 – 11:38 pm
Chess Tourney Buddies
Originally uploaded by vergil66.
Evan enjoys a moment with Nathan at the Goshen Scholastic Chess Tourney Dec. 3. Evan went 3/3 in his very first tournament.
This was also a first for me: the first chess parent experience. Advise to new chess parents: bring lots of change for the concession stand (candy is good) and [...]
January 27, 2003 – 4:06 am
Sunday was a big day for sports: Super Bowl XXXVII and Kasparov vs. Deep Junior. Both were played in the United States and both brought a lot of media attention. The Superbowl was a romp and so was the chess game.
At least Garry came through for me.
The Oakland Raiders’ training camp was in my hometown [...]
