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Three hours from now I am supposed to be the Ref in a game of volleyball. I have not played or paid any attention to volleyball since I was in middle school and they made us play in gym. I did not understand then, I do not understand now. I have three hours to read the rulebook below and try not to make too much of a fool of myself. I’m sure I will though. I just don’t understand these sorts of things. Oh well, I shall try!
Rules of the Game of Volleyball (Outdoor, Sand or Grass) (PDF)
Official United States Beach Volleyball Rules USAV Rulebook covers both Indoor and Outdoor Rules “2001 USA Volleyball Rulebook” is now available…
He had me all blocked into a corner and in what looked like a hopeless situation to me, and I was down to 10 seconds on the clock… but I managed to slither away and then get some material, and then get more material, and work on my advantage until I won. Yea!
[Event ICC 2 12]
[Site Internet Chess Club]
[Date 2003.07.22]
[Round -]
[White Abulsme]
[Black K2Q]
[Result 1-0]
[ICCResult Black resigns]
[WhiteElo 1089]
[BlackElo 1010]
[Opening Philidor’s defense]
[ECO C41]
[NIC KP.10]
[Time 00:10:27]
[TimeControl 120+12]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bd3 Bg4 4. O-O Nc6 5. b3 Nd4 6. Be2 Nxe2+ 7. Qxe2 Qf6
8. Qe3 h5 9. Bb2 h4 10. h3 Qg6 11. Nxh4 Rxh4 12. hxg4 Qxg4 13. f3 Qg3 14.
Nc3 Nf6 15. Ne2 Qh2+ 16. Kf2 Rh3 17. Rg1 Nh5 18. Qg5 Be7 19. Qg4 Bh4+ 20.
Ke3 Nf4 21. Qxg7 Nxg2+ 22. Qxg2 Rxf3+ 23. Qxf3 O-O-O 24. Qg4+ Kb8 25. Ng3 d5
26. Nf5 d4+ 27. Kd3 a6 28. Qxh4 Qf2 29. Qxf2 b5 30. c3 c5 31. cxd4 cxd4 32.
Ne7 Re8 33. Nc6+ Kb7 34. Na5+ Kb6 35. Qxf7 Rc8 36. Qb7+ Kxa5 37. Qxc8
{Black resigns}
1-0
Of course, I didn’t post the earlier game from last week when I lost after like 12 moves when I failed to notice a simple checkmate that I could easily have blocked. Oh well! Hey, I’m not a GOOD player, I just have fun. :-)
Just sent this to Rebecca. Thought I would share here too.
Initial estimate is $1000, although they will visit in person and give a better estimate Friday. That is more than I really wanted to pay.
I am going to ask how much less it would be if they don’t do the storage space too, or if they ONLY do the furniture.
Cause I have three weeks to move. I can do all the boxes and loose stuff myself no problem, even if I had no help from any friends, which I know I will have at least some of. Maybe ten trips with my Saturn fully loaded would get all of my stuff over there. Maybe even less.
I just REALLY don’t want to deal with the furniture myself or even ask my friends to do that. :-(
But if they can’t get it low enough, perhaps I will canvas the local friends to see who was actually serious about helping me move. :-)
Or maybe I really will decide to just trash all the furniture and start out living on the floor and then get all new stuff. :-)
Oh, and nothing from the stressful stuff I mentioned yesterday has been resolved yet. :-( Still waiting for good phonecalls on those things. :-(
So today, a few things on the house got glitched. Got word last week that the appraisal was done. It was supposed to arrive Friday or today, so that the official Mortgage Approval could be done. (The current one is contingient on the appraisal… if it appraises for less than my offer price, I may have to come up with the difference in cash.) But the appraisal did not arrive. So we have to do an addendum to the agreement asking the seller for a little more time to get that. Potentially the seller could back out because of this. They probably won’t, but… it makes me real nervous, and will until it is all settled.
At the same time, we were supposed to have a copy of the condo agreement by now, but don’t. It is supposedly in the mail. I need the agreement to know which things are not covered by the condo association, so I know what insurance I have to get. ARRGH!
Ont he other side of things: I’ve arranged for the time off for closing and moving. Marilyn’s ticket to come the weekend after closing is bought. The guy to replace the locks is scheduled for the day after closing. I’ve played phone tag with a moving company to get an estimate, but have not connected yet. Etc.
My stress levels are increasing rapidly.
I just updated the “Mail” section with the results for June 2003’s Top Ten email contest.
Top Ten for June 2003
So this month Ivan and Chad manage to claw their way back up onto the top ten, in the process shoving Cynthia and Greg off the bottom. Brandy continues to clean up with more than twice as month as the next competitor. I must admit though, some of that was related to her being my agent as I try to buy my new townhouse. Oh well. That should die down shortly after I close in August. Most of the emails were personal though, so it is legit that she counts.
Other than that though, kind of a slow month. Only two people over 100 messages for the month. Just sort of the usual from everybody. Ron drops back down from his unusually high performance in May to a more normal level. Al and Chris also quiet down a bit. I guess there were no major multi-side conversations on random subjects in June. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Got an email from Brandy this morning about her having looked at my redesigned site. I had seen her look in at the camera a variety of times, but last night I noticed her go to the front page for the first time since I redid it. At least I think it was… checking the logs real quick…
Yup, before today at 01:49 UTC, the last time Brandy had looked at the home page (at least from her home where I recognize the address) was June 24th. So this was the first time since the redesign. She might have looked another time from work or somewhere, but if so I haven’t learned to recognize that as her yet.
So Brandy becomes the first one from the last year of top tens to look at the new front page and send me an email commenting on it.
But I had said I was excluding Brandy and Greg from my “who will notice first” thing, since both of them knew I was working on the blog software that day and I had recently told Brandy to look at the site to answer a question she asked.
But thought I would mention it anyway. We’ll see who is next.
But right now I think I am going to get up and ready for the day, then perhaps work on counting June’s Top Ten list for a bit before doing the delayed suit shopping with Kelly.
I was going to go suit shopping with Kelly today. But by the time I got up, finished talking to Marilyn about Idaho and her visit her to help me unpack, and was putting my shoes on, I hadn’t yet called my dealer about the car, and Kelly called, ready for me to come meet her for the suit shopping.
I told her about the car overheating and leaking and making lots of smoke and that I hadn’t gotten to take it in yet. She suggested perhaps we could go suit shopping tomorrow instead. That worked for me. I figured I could get the car fixed today, and be all ready for suit shopping tomorrow.
Then I called the Saturn dealer. They probably couldn’t get to my car until Monday. And the rental car people left at noon and wouldn’t be back until Monday. So it would probably be better if I just waited to take the car in Monday.
Sigh. OK. Kelly said she could pick me up for the suit shopping. And while I probably COULD drive the car a bit without it exploding, I’d rather not. So I guess I’m staying home and/or walking or biking.
Hmmm… biking. I haven’t done that in a bit. Perhaps I should. But I was thinking of walking over to the little restaurant at the golf course. I have never gone there in all the years I have been here. So I thought perhaps I would walk over there today.
I think I’ll do that.
Planning for the Idaho random trip is starting to solidify. It looked like it was going to be me, Marilyn and Chad. But a couple days ago out of the blue I got an email from my cousin Seth saying he would like to join us. So it looks like it may be the four of us.
So next we are picking which dates to go. The suggestion currently on the table from Marilyn is August 30th to September 7th, so as to use the Labor Day vacation day. Sounded fine to me. Waiting for feedback from Chad and Seth. Then if we settle the dates, tickets will be bought, and it will be time to start figuring out where we will stay.
OK, so I am buying a house. I am about to leave this apartment. I have been in this apartment for almost seven years. But in the last two weeks something has happened that has never happened before here.
I had a new set of neighbors move into the apartment directly below me about a week ago. And they are loud. Almost every night they are playing really loud music, with a big thumping bass line. I can feel the vibrations with every beat. And it sounds like for the second time since they have been here they are having a party or something. I hear lots and lots of loud voices from below. Muffled, but loud. And occationally loud TV noises too.
These people must be deaf or going deaf. None of my other neighbors have ever played their stuff this loud or made so much damn noise. I am trying to just watch a little TV here, and maybe sleep, but it is loud enough to be distracting.
This sucks.
I am glad I am moving in… 24 days… Woo!
So, I was supposed to meet Brandy after work to review more papers on the house. But the papers were not ready. But she called and was all saying she’d had a rough week and how about a drink. I was very tired, but got talked into it. We met near my new house. At which point it was noticed that smoke was pouring out of the front of my car and coolant was spurting out and leaking all over the ground. Oh good.
So we bought some new coolant at the nearby grocery store, went to Pizzaria Uno and had a drink while the stupid thing cooled down, then I filled up the coolant and drove home without it overheating again.
But this means in the morning I have to take it in to the dealer to have them fix the leak. Which means I have to get up way early since in the afternoon I am meeting Kelly to help me pick out and buy a new suit. I ruined my old suit by washing it by mistake, and I have a wedding to go to in a couple of weeks.
Anyway, I’ll have to deal with the car in the morning before that. Poo.
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