Life In 19x19

54: you think KKK is an acronym for ko ko ko.
56: you vote based on your belief of how strong the representative is at go.
57: you write a program to play go, and it beats Le-Sedol.
58: you're a member of more than two go servers.
59: you piss your pants just so you can play without interruption.
60: you beat a 9 dan, giving him 2 stone handi.

61: in a parking lot, you refuse to park your white car in a space bounded by three black ones.
62: you start using go terms and references in ordinary conversations with your go friends
63: you start using go terms and references in conversation with you non go playing friends
64: you have no friends

65: you feel alone and lost on the weekend because there is no tournament you could go to.
66: you close your eyes and black and white stones keep appearing and disappearing and you can do nothing about it.
67: you think of the empty goban whenever you walk down the street and see the lines between the stone slabs which form the pavement.

65 and 66 kinda happen(ed) to me. This weekend I'll play a tournament for the 4th week in a row. It'll be strange not to play one next weekend... And 66 happened after my first tournament. After 6 rounds and various casual games over 2 days my brain was playing strange visual tricks on me when I - totally exhausted - wanted to sleep. Those stones kept me awake for a while..

68: you prefer playing the color of your gender. (black male white female)
69: you try to tonnuki to syke you opponent out twice in a row.
70: you know all the proverbs by heart.
71: you know what the 120 puzzle position is.
72: you solved the 120 puzzle position.
73: you play go because you have nothing better to do.
74: you beat a 7k giving him a 17 stone handicap.
75: your grateful suicide is illegal, otherwise...
76: your favorite band plays go.

77: you own one of Shusaku's boards.
78: you distance yourself from people to keep liberties.
79: you know more than 100 go games by heart.
80: you pass more than 5 times in one game.
81: you have a go tattoo.
82: you focus so hard on the game, the board shakes.
83: you've used the nuclear tasuji more than 10 times.
84: you've beaten every pro at least once.

You have to adjust your mask to place a go stone under your tongue.

79: you deliberately let a weak group life for the challenge.
80: you go back in time to play Shusaku.
81: you imagine playing a game on a tiled floor.
82: you try to give aji to people you don't like.
83: you learn Japanese/Chinese so you can affirm your strength in their language.
84: you've won a world title more than once.
85: you've left your opponent with no living groups.

You start winning against the latest Leela Zero weights on a regular basis.

86: you win a game against Chuck Norris.

87: You try to figure out how the black elevator buttons can live.

88: you have a go board worth more than 1000 dollars.
89: you wonder if group tax affects actual taxes.
90: you play 3D go because normal go is easy.
91: you use sente to ask some one out.
92: you drive a black car because black gets the initiative.
93: you win a 13x13 with giving your opponent a 9 stone handi.
94: you win a 9x9 with giving your opponent a 6 stone handi.
95: you fall asleep half way through the game and dream the rest.

96: you write a comprehensive dictionary that translates Robert Jasiek's terminology into John Fairbairn's and vice-versa.

97: your cheer is: push and cut, push and cut, push cut!
98: you use a go board to do math calculations.
99: you like ternary because that's the number of states a intersection can be in.
100: you flip a coin for a miai position.
101: you capture more than 30 stones in a game.
102: your fingers glow as you play a stone.

103: you play 9 stones around the center to attack everything.
104: you smack the stones on the board as hard as you can.
105: you read more than 25 moves ahead.
106: you use a mirror to reflect on the position.
107: you play the "back in black" song when you take black.
108: you've played at more than 10 go salons.

109: you dream about go.
110: you play go like there's no tomorrow.
111: you solve life and death problems for life.
112: you switch from a winning position to your opponent's color, and he takes yours, and you still win.
113: you play against a 17 stone handicap and still win.