Tourneys, Drake

The boys are now heavily into chess season. Sadie plays in occasional tournaments, and was proud of herself that she won two out of five games in her last one. She said "this kid was running around the board taking all my pieces and I saw a way to checkmate him so I did." Pretty cute that she is proud of small successes next to the boys that are always coming home with GIANT trophys, we are going to need an extra room.

Well, I blew it by telling you all about Drake and Helium, because he was mortified and swore he would never do it again. I didn't know that G Hicks would talk to him the next day before I got a chance to say how mad he was that I put it on the blog and to not say anything. But he came around. In fact, here's a link to a contest he placed in. AGAINST ADULTS! Well, sports fans mind you, but still.

http://corp.helium.com/marketingcontest/leaderboard/649?cms=wide-world-of-sports

And 40 bucks is a lot for a 13-yr-old dashing of some mediocre articles in one weekend. But in a few weeks after you all see this I will take it down and NO ONE I REPEAT NO ONE mention it to him for any reason, even the best of them like congratulating him or anything. He will threaten to quit again, even though he doesn't usually. It's too good of money.

Sorry abt shutdown

Hi,

Sorry I had to shut down, Helium put me on the homepage. If she checked it the day I mailed her she would have seen what I mean, and I don't want strange people browsing around the family blog.

So my present thing isn't picking up any steam. It is REALLY hard to get to the post office with packages without a car. And I think after I sent something to the wrong person I just kind of gave up for a while.

Luckily, it won't be anything any of you will miss. Except now I guess I could add Easter candy. Why not?