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these are two finalists of MO-2011. The big box in hands of the winner (Valery) is a 70 mm aperture refractor telescope, the main prize of the tournament. We have had also a smaller box for the satellite tournament among those losing in first round of the main one (can't remember what it is called in English.. "grief-relief :0"?) OK, and now in July will start the Motivation Ladder. This is a long-long way ...

Today is April 16 - means everything to the club leagues. Them leagues are overwritten every April 16 and October16, but today is special sixteenth because it's actually the first day I could pass by most of the sidewalk free of snow. What a start of the springtime this year! You tell me now about the global warm. -- The traditional Motivation Open is under way since today, too. We have two annual events - the MO mentioned, and Motivation Ladder summer through October. This year, we will have two ...

I've recently calculated my mean of daily expenditures on providers for two sites are ~1$/day. So, if we want Google ads pay off these, we will need 10 times more clicking people, (10c/day currently). I'm rather concerned on the stats issues on both of TMM sites using google-analytics and a couple of runet-based counters. By March 1 this year, motivation.ru (M) used to collect 100 unique visitors a day, and tennismatchmachine.com (T) - only 10. Here we go and set up a redirect from M to T on March ...

and March here is just another winter month. So there are two more winter months to endure. I had spoken to my wife about going to Egypt (having arranged a 5-star for three all of us), but she said "No!" - and it was just a week before riots broke out there. Wise men and their wives. Then I had arranged a trip for just myself (secretly), booking flights to and from Cairo, and a hotel, etc. Yes, I did know about riots in Tunisia, but kept thinking of Egypt as a peaceful sunny place. So, ...

Basically this year has been a tremendous way up for me; I have done with it, and still much alive and so on. Although drained to the extent of watching NY cartoons and reading some English writer like .. noops watching cartoons again. All those criminals in power ( = theft, bribery, corrupt politicians, and FIFA); this country has wound up thousands kilometers of barbed wire in its past, and ready to spin off again. --" Icy rain" poured here last Saturday, collapsing voltage lines and ...