Anything and Everything

It's been a short while since my last entry, and where has the time gone. Over the past week several things have happened. Kosovo is free at last. Yippee!!! Wonder what the Serbs will do next after trashing part of the US Embassy. Hillary lost again to the wunderkind. And to Randy on Air America - you said it wrong you bitch. It's pronounced Vunder-kint. Either learn german or shut the hell up.

Anyway Hillary's last stand will be in Texas... and fortunately we do not have to remember it. Personally I would love to see her win as Obama is extremely to far to the left. But it seems inevitable that he'll win the nod. On the other side of the coin McCain has had to deal with libel from the NY Times. Last time I read that piece of trach was the day before 9/11. And that was only a headline on a warlord in Afghanistan being killed off. Who knew.

On to the good news. My wife got a raise and a huge bonus. We went out to eat at a restaurant that appeared to be good but the food was crap. It seems that everything was store bought except the main course. So if you are in Tacoma, please do not go to MASA. It's way overpriced and the food overall is not good.

And on the chess news, I'm plugging away at my Caro Kann studies. It's going smoothly and I'm learning a lot of the main line stuff. It's a learning experience none the less. And my new section on C/Chess started off. Allen went for the English Opening 1.c4 and I replied 1...f5 to drag him out of book and get him into a QDG. I know he'll hate it, but I didn't want to tackle the English. The other two matches as black are a CK and a Dutch Defence. As white, I'm going after another round of Torre's again. I learned something that I known before in full detail. It's FLEXIBLE. If it doesn't go my way on the kingside, there is always the queenside. That's a good thing. Especially that won match I lost at the Tacoma Chess Club last month. I still think of that dropped bishop. Arrgh....

Enough musings for now. Write later. And comment please.