Atlanta

Wednesday morning in the middle of the Pacific, Wednesday night in Seattle, and Thursday night in Atlanta. The miracle of fossil fuel. D and the rest of the Garfield team are now in Round Four of seven at High School Nationals. They stayed near the top through the first two rounds, but Round Three was tough and they've slipped a bit. D has been doing well, with a win and a draw against players over 2000, but he's playing a Master (2214) this time.

I don't have any reasonable pictures of the players or chess triviana or the hotel yet, but I did take some pictures this morning of some slightly damaged downtown skyscrapers during a walk through Olympic Centennial Park. The March 14th tornado sucked the windows out of the towers and apparently it takes a while to replace all the glass. Good thing the Southeastern Conference game went into overtime that night at the Georgia Dome, or lots of folks would have been caught out in the street when the twister hit. I don't think there are tornadoes in the current forecast, although Wednesday evening our flight took a very long detour around the the big storms that were hammering North Texas. Two years ago, when we were in Louisville for Nationals, there was a tornado warning during one of the rounds which confused the tournament for a little while, but which didn't result in an actual tornado.