Reply to: Looking for a mid-life crisis theme

[Old Greg]

After Topalov's persistence with the queens pawn opening in the last world championship I have spent the last 3 months experimenting with it, but it just doesn't excite me. Am going back to the KIA and nimzo-indian defence systems I am more familiar with so enough adventure for me.

I persist with the QGA with black but am thinking I need to branch out. The safe option would be Slav but perhaps the Benko would be fun.

[doodab]

Have you considered building something like a boat or perhaps a small supercomputer?

[oracleslave]

I am considering adopting some more adventurous chess openings if that counts.

After Topalov's persistence with the queens pawn opening in the last world championship I have spent the last 3 months experimenting with it, but it just doesn't excite me. Am going back to the KIA and nimzo-indian defence systems I am more familiar with so enough adventure for me.

[Old Greg]

Try taking up a musical instrument and join a band full of other 40 year olds who are trying to recapture their youth?

I am considering adopting some more adventurous chess openings if that counts.

[SimonMac]

Try taking up a musical instrument and join a band full of other 40 year olds who are trying to recapture their youth?

[Old Greg]

Having kids isn't meaningless

They mean I was woken up last night at 12:00, 12:30 and 4:00 last night. Fortunately, they are the light of my life, or it would be Dial-a-Wolf for them.

[ThomasSoerensen]

For the OP: try different forms of erotica / fetish I am sure you will have fun in the search

Yeah, pegging sounds like a laugh and a half.

[Halo Jones]

For the OP: try different forms of erotica / fetish I am sure you will have fun in the search

[Churchill]

No but it is bloody expensive.

Get them jobs, make them pay their own way.

Turn them into profit centres.

[MarillionFan]

Having kids isn't meaningless

No but it is bloody expensive.

[Churchill]

Mrs OG is keen to move as well. She only came to the UK for 3 years and has been here now for 17 years. Financial imperatives mean that we need to work (at least one of us). Her profession is more mobile and mine is better paid so we need to find a magic solution.

Having kids isn't meaningless

[Old Greg]

I have five years on you, OG.

I've been looking into moving somewhere 'exotic', but am having a hard time convincing Mrs LS to do the same. She's very risk averse, and likes the safety and security of predictability and familiarity. Having no children helps from both a financial and mobility perspective though.

Locations we've considered include Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Ecuador, Panama, Argentina. Still a work in progress.....

Mrs OG is keen to move as well. She only came to the UK for 3 years and has been here now for 17 years. Financial imperatives mean that we need to work (at least one of us). Her profession is more mobile and mine is better paid so we need to find a magic solution.

[darmstadt]

Fancy swapping lives for a bit?

Do we get to swap clothes as well?

[Cliphead]

Learn to fly, buy a wee plane. Doesn't require any strenuous exercise, cheaper to run than a boat, visit lots more exciting places than ports full of the yellow welly brigade.

You could go to Florida and get your license in a couple of weeks but spend some time with an instructor back in blighty to get used to the local area and weather.

[MaryPoppins]

Anytime. The weekend will be starting on Wednesday evening this week going through until the early hours of Sunday.

Fancy swapping lives for a bit?