Vaction?

I asked my dad a few days ago if we could go somewhere. He put up Chicago as a possibility *shudders*, Chicago's a big city, so no thank you. So I made a possibility centered around, a place I think someone should visit in their life...

Niagra Falls. Another place that's close to Niagra Falls also caught my attention, Letchworth state park. It looked really neat, and with nature everywhere. a place not too far away from that looked like another place to possibly visit, Mendon Ponds Park. It was the wetlands that caught me there, I'm still looking around that area though. This vacation would likely take place soon after school lets out. If this actually plays out, I see it as Niagra falls first, visit to Mendon Ponds Park on the way to Letchworth state park. This is only the first possibility I came up with, but I just stated looking, there could be so many more parks I haven't looked at.
might be more of a longshot though...

-Chris

Chess

ELO rank
Tanx- 1393 ruber-1359
(rank before match)
Tanx||Ruber
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d2d4 d7d5
c2c4 g8f6
c4d5 f6d5
e2e3 b8c6
f1d3 e7e5
d4e5 c6e5
d3b5 c7c6
b5d3 c8e6
e3e4 d5b4
d3e2 f8d6
a2a3 b4a6
g1f3 e5f3
e2f3 d8e7
o-o o-o-o
f1e1 d6h2
g1h2 d8d1
e1d1 e7h4
h2g1 a6c5
b1d2 c5d3
g2g3 h4e7
d2f1 e7c5
d1d3 e6c4
d3c3 c5b5
c1f4 h7h6
f3g4 c8d8
a1d1 d8e7
f4d6 e7f6
e4e5 f6g5
f1e3 c4e2
d6e7 f7f6
f2f4 g5g6
g4f5 g6f7
d1d7 b5b2
e7d6 f7e8
e5e6 b2c3
f5g6

time remaining: Tanx-4:15 out of 10:00 ruber-1:23 out of 10:00

oh Fiona, I was listening to your music you made the whole time, it helped me win (and get some determination) So, thanks for helping me ;).

It was a great game on his part. Practice is the only thing that can improve you at chess, and looking at a player's mistakes, and learning from them.

I lost two matches later though, quite badly if I do say so myself.

Here I stand

I wrote a poem awhile back called "here I stand", I may have lost it so I wrote this in school. I like one quite a bit, I think it's my best.

Here I Stand


MPS is a disease
you cannot appease
it never goes away
'till the day
you're under a mound
in the ground
and that day
wasn't far away

12 was the age
the doctor's waged
and agreed
that I'd be
When I'd see
my last day
and pass away
without a say

It wouldn't be kept at bay
and I couldn't get away
some people frayed
and went away
but others prayed
so live I may
and here I'd stay

Then one day
it went away
never to be seen
again in me

it went away
with God's say
by his Grace
and through his might
there's no trace
in my life

I survived
By His hand
'cause I shouldn't be alive
yet here I stand.


It's a poem about my case of MPS, which disappeared due to God's handiwork