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These Tuesdays that come after a 3-day weekend always seem out-of-synch to me. Sort of like a Monday but not, ya' know? At least I made it through this one without breaking anything, or getting into any kind of trouble.
posted Tuesday, 2024-09-03 ~20:20 #QNSEP2024
posted by Roscoe
Happy Labor Day to any visitors here who note this American holiday. Though traditionally set aside to honor the labor union movement in America, it is seen now by most people as an end of Summer holiday. In that sense, I hope that you all have had a good Summer of 2024, and that the upcoming Autumn will be good for you, too.
posted Monday, Sep 2, 2024 at ~11:30 AM #QNSEP2024
posted by Roscoe
Last night before bedtime I checked the links on the day's post to my Roscoe's Story blog and found one broken. The url was corrupted, an extra character had slipped in. That was easily fixed, but the post had already gone public. Checked more links in that post and found two others similarly broken. So I fixed them, too.
Those broken links were all in two paragraphs I mostly, but not entirely, copy and paste from one day's post to the next, so I checked the previous day's post and found the same broken links. Fixed those and went back another day, then another, and more, finding the broken links in almost every post since August 4th. Fixed them all, one by one.
Yes, I'm going to be more careful about checking my work from now on.
posted Sunday, Sep 1, 2024 at ~2:32 PM #QNSEP2024
posted by Roscoe
Early Saturday afternoon finds this first College Football Saturday of the 2024-2025 Season moving comfortably along. Morning chores (prayers, monitoring bank activity, chess work, etc.) all went smoothly. Had a delightful video chat with my daughter who was with her granddaughters at their soccer games back in Indiana. Then it was time for college football.
For the first year in a long time I now have streaming TV access to ESPN and the games they carry. So the first game I started to watch, after watching the last part of ESPN's College Gameday show, was Virginia Tech vs. Vanderbilt. Before half-time of that game I reverted to what has become my favorite way to follow football, and switched to the radio broadcast of the Georgia Bulldogs vs. Clemson Tigers.
For the rest of the season I'll be following football on the radio rather than watching TV coverage. It is a much better experience.
posted Saturday, Aug 31, 2024 at ~12:48 PM #QNAUG2024
posted by Roscoe
Expect more than a little wonkiness here as I change the note-taking app I use as part of the process of generating these Quick Notes posts. I'm transitioning away from Google Keep to Standard Notes. The two apps work quite a bit differently from each other and it's taking me awhile (a good long while, I'm afraid) to learn and get used to those differences.
posted Friday, Aug 30, 2024 at 11:30 AM #QNAUG2024
posted by Roscoe
Finally got some yard work done. This morning I trimmed back bushes in the front yard and side yard. Spent an hour out there and worked up a powerful sweat.
Now taking steps toward completing one of my 2024 New Years Resolutions: de-Googling my Internet operations. Have beefed up my proton mail account to replace gmail, and am moving my note-taking from Google Keep to Standard Notes. It will take a few weeks probably to get the new systems up and running and the old systems put to sleep.
posted Thursday, Aug 29, 2024 at 3:34 PM #QNAUG2024
posted by Roscoe
A few minutes ago I subscribed to WNBA League Pass in order to better follow the Indiana Fever. Prior to this year I'd never watched women's basketball, but I started watching Fever games this Summer to catch Caitlin Clark. Now...
posted Wednesday, 2024-08-28 ~13:25 #QNAUG2024
posted by Roscoe
The above notice popped up in my in-box this morning. So, it appears my September will be a little chess-heavier than I'd planned. I'm already expecting more games later that month when a 13-player tournament in which I'm registered in another of my chess clubs starts. The games of this Round 2 starting next week should be well under way by then.
posted Tuesday, 2024-08-27 ~09:45 #QNAUG2024 #chess
posted by Roscoe
Over the weekend I won this CC club tournament game with a Queen-Rook-2 pawns combination checkmate. The position of pieces at game's end is shown above, and our full move record is below.
posted Monday, 2024-08-26 ~07:50 #QNAUG2024 #chess
posted by Roscoe
Readings at Mass for this Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost include: the Introit: Ps. 83. 10-11; the Epistle: Galatians 5. 16-24; and the Gospel: Matthew 6. 24-33.
posted Sunday, 2024-08-25 ~12:00 #QNAUG2024
posted by Roscoe