Kris, Jessamyn, and Abigail Milo

Ok, so it seems my new “milo jumps on every bus that goes by” item is chess. I don’t remember who taught me to play chess, but I used to play some a bunch of years ago. I recently found out that facebook has a chess app. - and I’ve been hooked ever since. Back at the end of August I started playing again (only online now, I had never done that before). I’ve now played 65 matches thru facebook and 10 thru www.chess.com (which is the website that created the facebook app). You’d think after 75 matches I’d be pretty good, but sadly that isn’t exactly true - but who cares, I love playing.

Anyway, I’ve bought myself a travel chess set to play against buddies when I go over to thier houses and I’ve also bought myself a home set, it looks like this (photo not by me):

I just ordered them, so I probably won’t get them for a week or so. Wanna come over and play chess?

I’ve been driving my dad’s old 1997 Honda Accord for a few years now. It’s been a great car, but it just crossed over 183,000 miles and pro and I figured we should buy something else. I’ve been looking around a bit and getting frustrated. We test drove a Chevy Blazer, but I didn’t like it. So anyways, we pick up our new (used) Volkswagon Passat on tuesday. It’ll most likely become the car we most often use in order to extend the life of her car which we bought new a couple years ago (Honda Civic). The photo below is not the exact car we bought, but it’s what it looks like. Ours is sky blue with a light grey interior … looks nice … classy.

I haven’t posted in 2 weeks. Mostly because I don’t really have anything new to share … but I figured I should say something.

I reached my weight watcher’s goal. On August 25th I weighed 160 pounds. This morning I weighed 140 pounds. So now I actually get some points back because I just want to maintain my weight rather than lose any more. I do feel like another 5 pounds is do-able, but I’m very happy with how I look at the moment, so I’m going with it.

Motivating myself to run is a bit more difficult now that it’s cold and dark, but I’m still running 3 times per week. 3 miles, 3 miles, 4 miles at the moment - but I’d like to extend that 4 mile run to 5 miles. I plan to run the “Turkey Trot” on Thanksgiving, and then no more 5K races until spring.

Tell me, what good is a debate if either or both parties in the debate are allowed to just say anything they want and no one is there to point out inaccuracies. So now I have to become a political analyst or professor of recent US history in order to make an informed decision regarding who I want to vote for. I’m annoyed. There should be a panel of fact checkers right at the debate who actually turn their microphones off an interject with the truth about a recently stated lie. Then they should have to take a shot from a paint ball gun right to the face for lying. Whoever’s cleaner at the end wins.

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/factchecking_biden-palin_debate.html

I finished my 5K today - 27:52

Got my College Degree in the mail