Today’s bad lunchbreak cartoon. My son likes drawing robots and my daughter likes running around after dance class pointing her fingers in the air and saying, “Look at me! Boogie fingers!” And they both like Henry.
Okay, day one of February, 8.3 percent done with 2012. Time to update my resolution progress.
1) Cartooning. Haven’t done as much as I’d like here. I have thought up about a dozen ideas for gag cartoons, and scribbled a couple drafts, but none are complete yet. I need to get busy with this!
2. Chess study. I’ve actually done pretty well with this one. I’ve studied at least an hour for six out of seven nights- all month. And many nights were two-plus hours. I finished Seirawan’s book Winning Chess Tactics. There were just over a hundred exercises through the text, with several test exercises in the final chapters. I’m going to re-read chapters 1-15 before trying the test. I hope to have the testing done by the end of February. Next up will be the first 450 problems in Polgar’s monster book of 5,000+ problems. Continue reading »