green light

ok, i am moving to ohio in a few months and have decided to take a few months off when i do. i have prety much spent the last 3 years building my little house on the plains and am kinda burned out a bit from all the fun times figuring out house problems. so... when we move and dump the motherscratcher i plan on starting a few things. one is to write a book. as you can tell from my awesome blogging skills this should be no problem at all. the other is of course to get really good at chess. i figure i want to start the clock of how many points in how many days at that time. i dont know if that is allowed, hopefully it is. right now i am more interested in not losing touch with the chess world rather than skaking its foundations. so i am probably not improving much right now.

thinking back on stuff i am still convinced that the best way for me to improve is to try to get to the point where i am creating problems for my opponant, not just happening apon them and then capitalizing. i think, that i must... hmmm... i guess the way to describe it is to say i would like to be able to step slightly sideways of the game, to run not quite parallel to the most logical path, but to run slightly away in such a manor that i can create a problem. maybe as a card shark is doing slight of hand. but more subtile. more... i dont have the words maybe. more... ahhh. there is not the word. hopefully you follow my meaning a bit. to be able to jump from rock to rock across the creek with your arms all in a weird place to keep your balance. thats the look i want in my play. the jumping and the movement. :-) but with skill.

my and my enormous ego beleive this is possible. i have asked the little man that lives down in the celler of my being, and he said, "yeah, its possible, hell, grand masters do it. if those dweebs can..." so i have a green light from that area.

sorry for the lame holding pattern blogs of the last month. just a bit distracted by the real world sadly.


in other news the superbowl is on sunday. i think thats like the biggest sports event in the known universe? so we decided to ask over some friends. i will try to get a pic of the group.