Turns out his last move was not as bad as I initially thought, as I can't cut.

I think this is the best move locally and it should be sente.

Let's be solid.

Connecting up to the right side.

I feel like playing on the right side, but I'm not really in the mood for go right now. I will come back when I feel in the mood.

Not studying go these days; trying to find a goal in life. My was really sick last year, but hopefully he's ok now (time will tell). I changed jobs and get paid more now for lower stress. Before, my son's health and my job gave me some amount of stress, and Go was an outlet for that stress.

Now, stress is reduced a lot. I spend lots of time with my family, and exercise everyday.

But apart from those two items, I have room for doing something else. Some ideas:
* study go
* study korean
* study japanese
* start a business
* contract work to start a second form of income
* move abroad for a year
* sell my house and live someplace bigger
* learn a new hobby
* write a book
* make a blog
* do programming competitions
* read more books

Many possibilities come to mind, but I'm a bit paralyzed by choice. No one thing in particular screams out to me as the right path for my life.

So in the meantime, while I casually ponder this, I keep exercising, spending time with family, and not studying other things.

Is it a waste? I guess not if I don't feel a calling. I'm not living up to potential in many parts of life, but I don't seem to feel bad about it.

I guess that's OK?

No clue if this is the right move.

The other option would have been R5, but letting him give up his stone for the corner seems to make it to easy for him.

What do I know about go?

Lets see if we can't turn this into an all or nothing fight.

If there is an area for me to do it then it is certainly here.

Feisty.

"Lets see if we can't turn this into an all or nothing fight" is a dangerous strategy as Black in a 9-stone game...

Hopefully this can get to be more complicated, and I can get more benefit.

Locally this seems to be the best (one of the moves I can find).

I'm still unsatisfied, after Q3 he is essentially alive, but I couldn't find a way to safe both R3 and the R5 stones.

With all the stones I have outside if one of the two dies it has to be the corner, but if that's the case anyway maybe I should have blocked on the outside when he invaded here.

I don't think I have been in a similar situation yet, so evaluating it is hard when I have no idea what each player is supposed to get.

I feel like the way this game goes, 9 stones is defininitely too much. Maybe Kirby can trick himself out of this, though I dont believe it the way black has been playing, but even if he can (which would mean 9 stones wasnt too much for his winning chances) but I still think there would be a lot more to learn, if it was a 4 stones game or even less.

I really hope I didn't misread this

Nothing to say.