Greetings and salutations. I'm Mike Malveaux in Tacoma, WA, US (near Seattle). I've been Go-inactive recently, and I'm bootstrapping myself back up. I've played for about 20 years, off and on, beginning in Chicago, thanks to John Harriman. Currently my AGA rating is 4k; hoping to make shodan in the next few years. I won't be at the Go Congress this year, and probably not next year, but hopefully I'll be there in 2012.

Glad to be here!

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Howdy! Good to meet you. From what I understand, we have a handful of Washingtonians (?) around here already. See you around.

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Hi Mike, Welcome to L19!

This is Bill.T from the SGC. Are you coming to the tournament this Sunday?

Not addressed to me, but I might be around after the World Cup.

Cheers, and welcome. I recall a quite enjoyable game with you on OGS some time ago. Glad to see you here.

welcome back Mike. have missed seeing you around

Thanks for the welcome, y'all.

Likewise, I'm sure. Yes, Washington is a veritable hotbed of Go-ness, so there are bound to be a bunch of us here.

Hi Bill! I can't make it this Sunday -- it's my weekend to work.

Hi Oren

I recognize your avatar. That was a game of vicious fighting -- great fun, though I lost a 50-stone group. lol


Hey Dennis I've missed being around. Life's like that sometimes. Hey, I want to pick your brain about Macs one of these days. I assume you're going to Colorado -- maybe sometime after you get back in August, we can get together?

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nah, not going to ba able to make it this year, cause we had to make a trip to Texas this month to visit family

so just let me know when you want to get together and I'll come down to Tacoma for a game

Hey folks -- it's not your imagination; my login name is different now. I was too hasty when choosing a username here, and the Admins kindly consented to changing it to "hilltopgo".

For the record, I was "mikem" here initially; and back at GoDiscussions, I was "wegobad". On Senseis Library, I have been "wegobad" and before that, "takengive". I am now migrating my online Go handles to "hilltopgo."

Sorry for any confusion!

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