take as much time as you need with your moves, of course.

very interesting position we have reached!!

I have a pawn <en prise> and it looks like I need to trade <bishop for Knight>, but your center looks pretty vulnerable.

I hereby promise your booming forum to be the host of my 2000th post, which is not that far away, me thinks!!

Right back at you!!

Hey, it's really neck and neck between you and Wilson is it?

Plus I thought it was hilarious that he just went ahead and did it.

I don't think I will take his spot, he has too many contests and activities all the time it's just too exhausiting to try to keep up.

So i'm just gonna "go with the flow"

He is Eyal-like - must have access to databases NASA would be proud of!

Wheeee!> I second that!

Gonna fix some breakfast now..

See you later Your Sweetness!

I hope you're doing better. Some of your last posts have strongly implied you've been a little down. I'm wondering if you feel a letdown after finally finishing school (both the semester, and the whole degree thing) and your job, both of which no doubt required a sustained energy level? I know it always takes me several days to get my "summer legs," and I often spend those days wandering about without aim or purpose (some would suggest I do that all the time). I am finally getting back to my Peru thing--just finishing Hiram Bingham's book on the discovery of Machu Picchu--fascinating stuff!

Terrific picture of "you" on <Wilson's>--very cute! And to borrow from <Niels> above, god forbid he and <Eyal> should ever pool resources--they'd take over the world without breaking a sweat. (BTW, I do sweat profusely when typing--have to clean off the keyboard every so often. Reminds me of my music class in high school when I had to stop every so often to clean the saliva from my instrument. I played the 'cello.)

Yes <Bill> I think you've hit the nail right on the head. I'm on my way to getting summer legs as we speak.

Hope you are too, <Peru> sounds like a good way to do it. You ever hike up to <Achoo! Piccu>? I seen it on TV.

I don't sweat when i type, but I'm a msssy sod so my keys are permanently sticky with orange juice and coffee residue.

Plus, you'll be pleased to know, I've spilled hot coffee on my groin twice recently by doing exactly what I'm doing right now-- stupidly holding the "non-spill" cup (with lid) between my legs and trying to type at the same time.

I won't tell your parole officer nuttin!!

BTW, several years ago a woman here, in New Mexico, bought a cup of coffee from a Macdonalds and tried driving hoe with it between her legs. It spilled and scalded her thighs and groin. She sued and won millions. Seems to me you could employ a similar strategy. (Ever read William Gaddis's A Frolic of his Own? Satire on the law. Hilarious. A guy actually sues himself in the book.)

Hey, your job sounds very intersting indeed, from many different perspectives--living abroad (I know, you live the life of a broad every day), new culture, new climate, and of course, the great opportunity to work with ths students.

<You ever hike up to <Achoo! Piccu>?> Hehe. I love your little manglements of names. No, not yet. But one day, if they let me in the country when I'm finished with this thing. (It's rather violent and gruesome. Research has turned up some incedible tidbits!)

One of your best typos ever!

a line suitable for a Rap Song.

I don't put the coffee on the table cuz that's where my PC sits and I'm afraid it will spill and kill the POS thing once and for all.

Of course, I could get another little table, but that would make too much sense, perhaps.

Yes, I saw how violent and gruesome Peru is in the film <Aguirre- the Wrath of God>.

Course that was the 16th century...Now it's the <Shining Path> gorillas? I thought they caught the leader and jailed him.

squares, elixir, samikd, tactic101:

i have moved and updated all our fens now. your moves buds. i'm finished school/work so i'll be able to move regularly till our games is done now.

thanks for your patience!

Loved <Aguirre--the WOG> Love Herzog; spellbound by <Grizzly Man>--watch it over and over.

They got the <Shining Path> leader (Abimael Guzman) a while ago, but other underground g-organizations are still fighting.

And let me tell you "computers" aren't necessarily the answer.

I actually telephoned the editor of the <Vancouver Sun> here last year pointing out that their paper had scads of glaring typos, not to mention grammatical and diction errors every day.

He actually took my call, apologized, and told me they had a new "computer program" for proofing that was not quite working yet.

Well, it still isn't working and I did my "civic pedant" duty already.

I also did a Proofing job with a Prof in Montreal- the stage where he reads word by word and I follow on the proof page word by word. It took weeks, and I'm sure we made some errors. But there's more process after that, as you know.

i was paid the queenly sum of 8 bucks an hour.

Best slave labor money can buy.

What you can't buy? <driving hoes>.

oh wait you CAN buy those.

HAHAHAHAHAAHHA

get it?

aWH00GA

If <Guy Carleton> hadn't passed the <Quebec Act> in 1774, the <Frog> would have joined the <American Revolution> and we'd all of us be speaking <American> right now.

It was a <quid pro quo> deal.

<Frogs>: Give us everything we want and we won't join the revolution

<Westminister>: OK, OK, just shut up about it after.

<squares, elixir, samikd, tactic101:>

i have moved and updated all our fens now. your moves buds. i'm finished school/work so i'll be able to move regularly till our games is done now.

thanks for your patience!

<Nicephorus>, 802 CE:

"The empress into whose place Ihave succeeded looked upon you as a Rook and herself as a mere Pawn... all this owing to female weakness and timidity. Now, however, I insist that you immediately ... repay... all the sums of money you ever received from her. If you hestitate, the sword shall settle our accounts."

Heh.