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This has been an okay Thursday. Nothing remarkable in the Roscoe-verse to report, but no major problems or worries either. Was able to spend 2 ½ hours working on those fallen branches in the front yard midday, and that's a good thing.
posted Thursday, May 8, 2025 at ~6:25 PM #QNMAY2025
posted by Roscoe
I won this CC game a few minutes ago playing Black by Checkmating the White King with a Queen-Rook Combination.
The full move record below:
1. e3 a6 2. c3 e5 3. h4 h5 4. Be2 g6 5. a4 a5 6. b4 c6 7. b5 Bg7 8. g4 d5 9. bxc6 bxc6 10. gxh5 Bf5 11. Nf3 Ne7 12. d4 exd4 13. Nxd4 O-O 14. Nxf5 Nxf5 15. hxg6 fxg6 16. h5 Rf6 17. Bg4 Nh6 18. Be2 Nd7 19. O-O Rf5 20. c4 Bxa1 21. hxg6 Rg5+ 22. Kh1 Ne5 23. Ba3 Nxc4 24. Bxc4 Rxg6 25. Bd3 Qh4#
posted Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at ~2:21 PM #QNMAY2025
posted by Roscoe
A very quiet Tuesday. Thankfully we weren't hit by the storms that had been predicted. And I was able to do my weekly laundry, though a day late.
posted Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at ~8:00 PM #QNMAY2025
posted by Roscoe
Spent a 3-hour chunk of time out of the house (medical apt.at the clinic, then business at my bank) and away from the home office, so time management skills were exercised taking care of things here. But, all things considered, it was a good Monday.
posted Monday, May 5, 2025 at ~7:30 PM #QNMAY2025
posted by Roscoe
Another day with hours of yard work. This makes three days in a row with work serious enough that I'm counting it as exercise. Tomorrow is supposed to be thunderstormy, so I'm not planning any Monday yard work.
posted Sunday, May 4, 2025 at ~7:45 PM #QNMAY2025
posted by Roscoe
Wow! I just got the best bp reading on the 1st try in.. a long time! Yes, I feel good about that! Today I ate much more moderately than I usually do, got more physical exercise than normal, and took my 1st day of 2 of a new prescribed medication to reduce my blood potassium level. I'm to have that monitored Monday. It'll be interesting to see the result.
posted Saturday, May 3, 2025 at ~9:00 PM #QNMAY2025
posted by Roscoe
Okay... one of my noisy neighbors across the street just cranked up the volume on a sound system in one of his cars. Darn. Sounds like this is going to be one of those nights.
posted Friday, May 2, 2025 at ~8:39 PM QNMAY2025
posted by Roscoe
Gorilla hail. Do you know what that is? I didn't know until a few minutes ago.
Saw a weather forecast earlier today for my part of Texas that said we're under the threat of thunderstorms that may include gorilla hail. Looked it up and found that gorilla hail refers to very large hail stones: baseball or softball size, or even grapefruit size. Man! Sure hope we don't get any of that!
posted Thursday, May 1, 2025 at ~6:52 PM #QNMAY2025
posted by Roscoe
I'll count today as a recovery day, following yesterday's yard work. Looking out a back window this morning I saw what my next project is going to be, mowing the back yard. If the weather cooperates, I'll plan on doing that tomorrow.
posted Wednesday, Apr 30, 2025 at ~8:00 PM #QNAPR2025
posted by Roscoe
A much better day today, than yesterday. Mowed the front yard this morning and, though it taxed me greatly, it didn't totally knock me out as it has in the past. So I'm in better physical condition now than I have been. And that is very good news.
posted Tuesday, Apr 29, 2025 at ~5:29 PM #QNAPR2025
posted by Roscoe