So me and Gabriel were supposed to go camping on Saturday.  We were both looking forward to it.  Its a fair amount of effort just to be able to sleep on the ground, but it gets us out of our every day rut.  he gets to run around like a nut and I get to make chili and enjoy the fresh air.

Not so this weekend.  Apparently there’s a nor’easter brewing off the eastern seaboard of the US that is supposed to hit Massachusetts on Saturday delivering between three and six inches of rain.

This isn’t terrible news.  I wasn’t feeling great anyway and who wants to spend all that time in the rain anyway.

In terms of terrible weather, Massachusetts has had a pretty rough time of it this summer.  To illustrate, please take a quick look at this picture of the devastation caused in one storm alone:

Finally, I am trying to pick up chess again.  I play some correspondence chess at RedHotPawn.com.

Sadly, I stink.  My rating there got very low when I canceled, like 12 games at once.  When I forfeited that many games it really ruined my numbers.  Now I am going to see if I can improve those numbers again.

But I am hoping that with some practice I can be less embarassed.

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