I used to be a very good chess player. Yes, I can see at least one person rolling her eyes and thinking, "used to be?" - but I had an expert rating and perhaps the potential for somewhat more. In high school, my first car gave me access to the Houston Chess Studio, now disappeared in a haze of gentrification. I spent much of a year and a half ( Read more... )

Thanks to K for ten years of smiling at the good and frowning at the bad with me ( Read more... )

All hail goes_to_11, winner of the 2006 Austin Replay Baseball Association championship!

I could say I'm sorry for being responsible for delaying his conquest for three years, but that'd be a lie. Enjoy the shiny trophy!

Question for the locals ( Read more... )

Well, K has run off to the salt mines to bring home the bacon (and health insurance!), so it's just li'l ol' me holding down the fort - at least in the afternoons. So far, on day 2, it's going just fine ( Read more... )

It's Talk Like a Pirate Day and I almost missed it! Thanks to K for showing me her nifty LJ icons with patches (available only to paid members, apparently ( Read more... )

Tagged by K, things you may or may not know about me, in the same order as K did ( Read more... )

Now that I'm self-employed, I have the responsibilities of dealing with my own business. Although the writing work is pretty self-contained and doesn't require a lot of complex business infrastructure, some of my consulting gigs will likely need more attention ( Read more... )

...we're connected.

Well, we finally got to talk to a real technician, clearly a local guy from accent and awareness of the local infrastructure. His response, pretty much verbatim: "I don't think there's any way you're gonna get DSL ( Read more... )