Comments on: Houston Open #5: Do I look like Alexander Yang?

By: Brad Hampton

Brad Hampton — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:38:24 +0000

Yea she changed her number and got on a better plan to avoid pay as you go nonsense. Plus her phone probably could have been donated to the Smithsonian for a significant write off. 480xxxxxxx is the new.

By: Donnie

Donnie — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:19:27 +0000

Hahahaha. And they say coffee is bad for you.

“Us class players”? You almost slipped that past me. The comraderie is all well and good…except at 2150, you are no longer a class player.

By: Derek Slater

Derek Slater — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:53:14 +0000

Our mutual badness is relative to absolute goodness, which nobody possesses, and relative goodness, which is the domain of GMs etc who are essentially irrelevant to us class players. So no worries. (Man this is strong coffee!)

By: Donnie

Donnie — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:09:29 +0000

@Allen: The eggs of LEP have been unionized ever since Mr. E came on the scene. It’s really put a crimp in my style.

@Annie: Thanks!

@Robert: Thanks! Alaska is a place I’d love to visit someday, but it’s hard enough now to get time to see my parents.

To be perfectly honest, while the Mascot has no mystical “hold” over me, I’d miss him a lot if he changed jobs. And gain 15 pounds.

@Brad: Long time, no hear. Coincidentally, I tried to call Rachel yesterday, but the phone number was not accepting calls. Maybe I have an old number?

By: Brad Hampton

Brad Hampton — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:50:10 +0000

Congrats Donnie. Always good to win something and an epic win when it comes with money. Rachel and I live in Colorado now. We will be heading down your way in a few months to visit you and see some of Rachel’s old friends. Give Rachel a call and let her know what would be a good time to come down for you. She said her high school reunion is in November I believe so we might be down then.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:21:18 +0000

Donnie, heartiest “congrats” from Alaska, as well. Like I told Polly, come to Juneau and we’ll hold a tournament just for you!

Allen–I think it’s been established that the Mascot has some kind of hold over Donnie, as otherwise he’s have been fired long ago…then again, perhaps Donnie keeps him around as a personal trainer/life coach. Since I began following M’s workout tips I’ve dropped 15 pounds and gotten a much higher-paying job, as well. Maybe the Mascot is a high-maintenance but high-results kind of, err, egg.

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:16:43 +0000

@Donnie: We can answer this quickly. Is the mascot unionized or is he at-will?

By: annie

annie — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:34:33 +0000

DONNIE, CONGRATS!!!

By: Donnie

Donnie — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:15:06 +0000

@To all: Thanks for the encouragement and goodwill!

@Wang: Thanks! I’ll have to start playing some more to start blogging about it. Mr. E and Egg Fu Yung especially haven’t done anything, so chess blogging is looking better all the time…

@Tom: It’s a real blast. Or, it CAN BE a real blast. If you ever do so, I might swing by, and help on my quest to beat Polly in playing in all 50 states (she’s currently up 25-2).

@Derek: Don’t worry, I’ll Alexander know.

That all my opponents gained rating points was completely overlooked. A great positive!

HOWEVER.

You’ve mentioned you aren’t that good of a player. Which I believe. And you’re rated 500 or so points higher…so if you aren’t that good, what does that make me?

See, that’s depressing.

(And what does that make the players who are 500 points below me?)

@Blunderprone: Next time, I’ll find an 8 round tournament, and post 2 games a day.

@Mascot: You know, sometimes I don’t know why you still have a job.

By: The Mascot

The Mascot — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:16:35 +0000

It feels good to be on top for just a little bit.

You know, if she really cared about you, you’d be able to work something out with her where you guys could alternate or something.