Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:45:00 01/24/01
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On January 23, 2001 at 16:56:10, Walter Koroljow wrote: >On January 22, 2001 at 22:00:56, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On January 22, 2001 at 20:13:53, Amicitia Stone wrote: >> >>>----------------------- >>>> >>>>I think it's a good idea to have internet tournaments. I think it's a bad idea >>>>to lobby for the current "in person" tournaments to become internet tournaments. >>> >>>Maybe half/half? >>> >>>>If the people who run them, can't afford to run them, or run out of energy to >>>>organize them, and want to make them internet tournaments, fine. >>>> >>>>But I don't see why people who don't go to the tournaments want to eliminate >>>>them for those of us who do like to go. >>> >>> >>>Very true. Good point. >>> >>>>Paderborn is a nice city, it's an enjoyable trip. >>> >>> >>>Yeah, I lived in Germany for 4 years, what a wonderful, wonderful place. Amazing >>>culture, fantastic food. Nice people. Are you going to make the trip Bruce? >> >>If I go to a non-ICCA event, I think it will be that one. I don't know if I >>would go if I could go this time. I can't go, so I haven't really thought about >>it. The reason I can't go is because there is a baby happening soon. >> >>bruce > >Congratulations to you and your wife! > >When that happened to me, my life and I changed irreversibly. Probably for the >better. > >Cheers, > >Walter I don't regret having kids, and while I think that it's possible that someone could regret having done it, I haven't met anyone who will tell me that. The first one is a kick in the teeth, but compared with what comes later it is easy. If the kid does something weird you simply pick it up and tell it to knock it off. I used to know some great ways to lug around a kid who was trying to bite or kick me, or who has simply had a full-on nervous breakdown and can't control himself. The second one is rough, because you can't just pick two up at the same time. And they are always running in opposite directions, so there is the matter of catching them. And neither feels that they are getting enough attention, so they try to kill each other. I don't think that the third one isn't that much different if you've survived having two. I think it's smoother since everyone realizes that the attention thing is hopeless, since they have to kill two siblings in order to improve their situation markedly, and that's hard to do. This will be our fourth one. I'm expecting it will be similar to having three. Our oldest one knows how to cook, and is going to learn to clean toilets soon. The current youngest knows how to fire up the dish washer, but I have to load it for him. He also waters our pet cockroach. The middle one won't do anything yet, but I'm still hoping she'll get a clue. Maybe I can get her to read bedtime stories to the younger ones. Eventually I'm going to send them out to get jobs, then I can start turning a profit on this. My wife is somewhat bothered by my attitude. bruce
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