Between gray and gloomy weather for at least one of the days and my not feeling quite as bouncy as I have before, the Russ and Rita visit has been low key. However, I can report, as a sign of Jerry's increasing maturity, for the first time nobody tipped the chess board over ("And now we'll never know who won").
I don't have pictures of the singalong/jam, but Russ took a video that might be good for blackmail some time. It was a kind of pick a key, any key experience.
And we made it down to Easthampton to see Max, Anya, and Miles.
But the visit has been much too short.
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I like chess, but one reason I rarely ever get to play it is that the potential opponents are either vastly better than you or vastly worse than you, leading to very one-sided games. A couple of nice chess quotes I found are:
"Nowadays if you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it."
Anand Viswanthan.
"Chess and theatre often lead to madness."
Arrabal.
Jerry is just too damned smart. Lucie is prety smrt, too, but the cunning player can distract her.
I try to be a cunning player, but my problem is that I forget the game and distract myself.
Still, the two of them are just so nice and fun that it doesn't matter. They never complain about the lack of competition.
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