Archive for March, 2006

Shrimp & Alligator Sausage Cheesecake

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Bet those are 4 words you never expected to see in that order, perhaps let alone in the same sentence. Tonight Nicole, Rob, Meg, Dori, and I went to Jacques-Imo’s, a New Orleans style restauarant on W. 77th street, right near the American History Museum. Tonight was also Bingo night, where a victory […]

Great night at the Go club

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Its rare that I single out any one night at the Go club as particularly good, but tonight made me feel like I’m actually making progress with my game, and that my peers there have noticed.
I played 3 games tonight - one against a beginner where he took 7 stones. That game I lost, […]

Teaching Go at Barnes & Noble

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Back in the end of February at the MoveOn retreat, somehow the topic of chess and games came up at one of our social dinners (maybe?). There I mentioned that I play Go, and Eli was interested in learning. Last night we met up at the Barnes & Noble on Union Square. […]

VB scare

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

On Friday we had a bit of a scare with Dori’s grandpa, Victor. We got a call from her uncle Phil at around 9:15AM saying that he had a really bad night, and the doctor thought that he was “closing in on the end”. We rushed over to the rehab center where he […]

Trip to California

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

On Sunday Dori and I returned from our 9 days in California. It was an excellent trip, and I hope you’ll find my little write up to be a pleasant read…
We started off with a JetBlue flight out of JFK, to Burbank, early on the morning of the 19th. All was well, except […]