Looking Back to Last Week

If you were one of the many who wondered just how high did the water get last week have a quick look. That is the mighty Missouri river at full crest. This photo is of the River Side Park. Normally, the river is about 20 feet below lowest part of the walk way. Nice. This week the rain has stayed away and the river has gone down about 10-15 feet. My hope is that the river level stays a little high this year, but not flooded. I believe this puts an end to the drought conditions of last year.

I have a new tool in my chess arsenal. Its name is Chess Base Light and it is a free download. It come with a data base and you can upload some games systems of your own for study purposes. I like it because I can access Playchess right from it and not have to go to my notebook. Try it...it's free!

Just to update you on my sick computer. It seems to be working once more. I have a few bugs to work out of it. There appears to be a problem because that nasty AOL wants to take over all the functions. I have denied it access to the other programs, but it works out of that somehow and it becomes the default everything. I am so angry about this. I have taken the drastic action of removing it as the dialer for Internet access. No worries! I have broadband and it if that goes down I can't get a dial -up connection because I have digital phone...it's all on the same line. One last thing. This morning I received this from Dell computers: "Greetings from Dell! Thank you for choosing Dell..." It should have read: "Greetings from Hell!.." That is all I have to say about that.