Enjoyed my vacation

01:22, 14.8.2008 .. 9 comments .. Link

Vlissingen, The Netherlands, was the place where i held my little chess vacation. I stayed in a B&B that had wonderfull, friendly, hosts that would help you in anyway they could. Breakfast was to kill for, plenty of everything. Bed was maybe a bit short but very comfy. Surroundings were nice and calm, an ideal place to relax.

The chess tournament was very well organized. My chess play wasn't like i wanted it. I hadn't played for two months so i felt rusty. I am also changing my chess style from positional to more combinational. Still having problems with playing more active so things didn't always work out the way i wanted. So, ratingwise, i scored one point less then suspected. Four out of nine was my part. Learned lots so this softened the pain of the not so good result.

Start of chess games was at 18h30 so i had plenty of time during the daytime to walk in the neighborhood, closeby and far away, and enjoy the sights the city had to offer. I must say i was a bit dissapointed since the only place that was worth of staying more then an hour was the seaside, 10 to 15 minutes walk from the place i stayed. The rest was all concrete and beton, kinda what you can espect of a town that is all touristic.

Anyway, i had a splendid time in Vlissingen. Next year i will certainly compete again in the chess tournament (hopefully with a better result) so i can already say "Vlissingen, watch out, here i come!".

Laptop back in use

04:49, 13.8.2008 .. 6 comments .. Link

I dont know what is wrong but when i came back from holliday my wireless keyboard didn't work anymore. I tried everything to get it to go again but whatever i did, reinstalling the driver, new batteries, hitting it with my fist, nothing worked. It was dead, no reanimation possible.

So i had to put my laptop back on my desk so that i could use the keyboard of it instead of just using it as server. The feeling of stroking the keys of my lappie felt wonderfully good, even beter then pushing the keys of my wireless keyboard. So, for awhile i definetly will be using the keyboard of my laptop to type.

Maybe in the near future i will put my extern screen also back in it's box and use my laptop in full, every feature of it. Helas it's not a top lappie. No CD/DVD writer. No pentium 3 or 4 enginge, just a second hand pentium 2. But it works and does all what i want it to do so i may not complain to much. With the extern 500 gigabytes harddisk attached i can make use of it for a very long time.

Freaking hot

10:35, 28.7.2008 .. 31 comments .. Link

First it's freezing so that my balls go hiding while screeching they will emigrate if they dont get special warmth treatment. But then all of the sudden the weather changed. It's as if one is located in an oven that is put at maximum. The sweat is dripping from my body like a waterfall if i dare to move, even lifting a finger causses a flood of sweat makes it appearence out of nowhere. Never know a body contained so much water.

This smoking hot weather makes it also difficult to focus so my chess training is suffering badly since all i can think of is lying down in a bath filled with ice-water. Ooooooooooh aaaaaaaaaaah, those wonderfull shills that run down your spine because of coldness. What a wonderfull feeling it would be right now in this heat. Gosh, even for a cool breeze i would do a murder.

Anyway, i will stop babbling about the weather now since i need to get myself a new towel to wipe of all the sweat that has accumulated all over my body. Maybe i better go think of a beautifall woman in a bikini that moves sexy under a waterfall. It will be hot but atleast it will be a bearable heat. ;-)

Weird summer

11:49, 22.7.2008 .. Posted in Life .. 7 comments .. Link

First their is the weather. One would think that the dresscode is a short with a T-shirt. Helas, no such luck. A T-shirt is part of the wardrobe but safely tucked away under a sweater so one will not freeze ones nipples off. Offcourse long pants are the best match to this wardrobe choice and good warm socks to make sure that the carriers of our body will not shiver of coldness.

Secondly i decided to grab my hobby by the horns and finally got myself a chess trainer/coach to get me finally across that magic elo-border of 2000 points. Cross your fingers he is not a slavedriver so that i still have time to blog.

Thirdly i am looking forward to my vacation which starts at 31 july. Never had that before. Maybe it's the fact that it's the first year i work fulltime. When working half-time one has plenty of free time. By full time you have to scrape each second of the hours of your free time so that you can do something else then cooking, cleaning, doing the dishes, ... .

Fourthly it's the first time i will be going outside the safe borders of Belgium for a part of my hollidays. Oke, it's only to The Netherlands to play in a chess tournament but planning the trip, how to get there, where to stay, find cheap place to eat, ... is also mighty exciting.

So it is, will be, a weird summer for me, aswell negative as positive.

Two times pain

11:28, 19.7.2008 .. Posted in Life .. 12 comments .. Link

I feel hurt, really hurt.

First hurt is from putting my heart back into my chest after it jumped out from joy when i read about the resurection of efx2blogs. Second hurt is that i am in doubt of returning because, believe it or not, i kinda fell in love with vox after spending some considerable time there to know the bloghost.

Oke, vox still needs some tweeking, like decent comment alerts and stuff but then we may not forget that efx2 went more then one time down on us, letting us hang between desperation and angryness, which frankly said, wasn't good for my nerves.

Oh, what to do? Which step to take? Staying or leaving? Double posting, but with which bloghost as primary blog? Questions, questions, but no answers to follow since each step has it's merrits and it's flaws.

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