Three things:
Increasingly over the last few months or so, I've been enjoying what I suspect are AI generated music / video collections. The piece I'm listening to at the moment is called “City Night Jazz Noir Vibes” and it's from a larger collection called “Noir Jazz Vibes.” The ability to listen to music I like without commercial interruption makes paying for YouTube Premium worth the monthly hit.
I lucked out with my sports follows today. Caught several hours of coverage of today's final stage of the Tour de France. Exciting! And my Indiana Fever beat the Chicago Sky this afternoon, even playing without Caitlin Clark. GO FEVER!
And I'm this close (pinching my thumb and forefinger together) to consigning an old laptop to my graveyard of dead computers. It's a good fifteen years old, so it's time.
And the adventure, it does continue.
posted by Roscoe
Early Saturday evening finds me listening to my Texas Rangers playing against the Atlanta Braves, and reflecting on my injured right shoulder that came from yesterday morning's fall in the front yard.
It has been ~ 36 hours since that fall. Enough time has now passed that I can compare it to a similar injury to my left shoulder 3 or 4 decades ago. That injury to my left shoulder was a broken collar bone as a result of a bicycle crash. The pain, soreness, and weakness now in my right shoulder is very similar to what accompanied that broken left collar bone decades ago. No, I haven't been to a doctor with this right shoulder situation. What would be the point? I know how to nurse it back to health. As long as I rest it as much as possible, which is easy since I'm fully retired and basically homebound, I'll just lay low and let nature take its course.
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
So this morning I fell in the front yard.
It was very early. I'd helped the wife load some supplies into her car. She handed me a bottle of water from her front seat and asked me to put it on her rose bush as she backed out of the driveway. I walked over to the flower bed and....PLOP... down I went.
Dang it! From where I lay on the grass I was able to turn my head and saw her driving away down the street going to work.
Took me a few painful minutes to collect myself, stand up, and head into the house. I've been taking Tylenol, and the wife rubbed pain cream into my right shoulder after she got back home. That helps. but this darned shoulder and my right arm and hand are still weak and sore. Given how slowly I heal these days, I imagine that aggravation will be with me through the weekend.
So,... how's your weekend going so far? Is everybody having fun?
posted by Roscoe
The weather's been really hot again today. Temps. have been at 100 degrees or better almost all day long, so I've only ventured outside a couple of quick times taking trash to the bins. Luckily I love to read, and I've been doing lots of that.
I'm half an hour away from tonight's Indiana Fever game. Though it looks like Caitlin Clark won't be playing again tonight, the Fever are still a darned good team even without her. Granted, when she's healed up and back in action, it'll be way more fun to follow them. GO FEVER!
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
Too tired tonight to follow the Rangers / A's Game which has just started.
So instead, I'll continue listening to The Joe Pags Show for a few more minutes before putting head to pillow.
posted by Roscoe
Earlier today a friend asked how my tournament games were going.
The graphic above shows the final board of a game I won this afternoon playing Black. My Rook to g7 checkmated the White King and ended the game.
CC (Correspondence Chess) games rarely end by checkmate. Most often the losing player will realize at some point that he has no clear path forward and he'll resign the game, giving his opponent the win by default, and giving both him and his opponent more time to focus on their other games. As most of us usually have many active games in progress at any one time, that's simply the polite thing to do.
As I told my friend this morning, I'm playing as I normally do: wining some, losing some more.
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
Three things:
My main Monday chore has been completed: doing my weekly laundry. It doesn't HAVE TO be done on a Monday. I can and have when things get in the way let that chore slide over a day or two (or more) without any real inconvenience, but my weeks always work better when I get it done on Monday.
This afternoon several new photos from my daughter appear on my Alexa Show device. She told me last week they'd be coming, but we didn't know exactly when. Seeing all those happy, smiling faces from family over a thousand miles away was a delightful midday pick-me-up.
And tonight I'll be listening to my Texas Rangers playing the Oakland Athletics. I'm following the Rangers Pregame Show now. First pitch is just a few minutes away. Go Rangers!
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
Last night I listened to the Rangers / Tigers MLB Game and to my happy surprise, my Texas Rangers won. I fell asleep shortly after and proceeded to have one of the best sleeps I've had in a while. And I woke in good spirits and with maybe a bit more energy than I usually have.
So... tonight the Rangers and Tigers are playing again, and I'm tuned into Texas Rangers Radio for the game. And I'm hoping for a repeat of last night's performance. GO RANGERS!
The adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
Two highlights of this Saturday in the Roscoe-verse:
Taking the wife out to lunch at Lin's, in Selma, which has become one of our favorite places.
And listening to my Texas Rangers vs the Detroit Tigers on Texas Rangers Radio. First pitch is 15 minutes away. Go Rangers!
posted by Roscoe
One of the most boring Fridays here winds down.
But boring can be a good thing, at least I've nothing noteworthy to complain about. Well, except for one leaky bottle in a case of 40 water bottles that I received this morning. But it was a bottle on an outside corner of the case that spit at me as I was carrying it across the room to put away. After cutting the plastic binding around the bottles I removed it and set it aside. With a few paper towels I cleaned up the few drops of water from the floor. And that's been the extent of excitement in the Roscoe-verse today. HA!
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe