Back from hiatus

It's been a busy 2012 so far! I'm looking forward to having more time to write in this space, however. Of the several projects that have been keeping me busy lately, one of the most exciting has been helping to restart the Christ Redeemer Church blog, "The Kingdom Perspective." Pastor Don Willeman is in the middle of a series of posts on sin and grace; check it out at http://christredeemerchurch.org/wordpress/

I've also been keeping busy with the U.S. Chess Federation's Electronic Knights correspondence chess tournament. The Electronic Knights is the email equivalent of the Golden Knights correspondence chess tournament, which is the national correspondence chess championship. The tournament is broken down into seven-player sections and you must score 4.5 points out of 6 to advance to the semi-finals. In an interesting twist, you are allowed to enter the tournament up to ten times (paying the entry fee again each time, of course). The more sections you enter, the higher your chances of being able to advance to a semi-final section. Right now I am playing in two sections, and I'm having a blast.

Finally, I'm not one to get extremely excited over industry award shows; I stopped watching the Oscars years ago, and I don't think I've ever watched the Grammys (as for the Tonys ... I couldn't even tell you if they were televised or not). But watching the Beach Boys reunite to sing "Good Vibrations" tonight was awesome!