Bathroom scales were very unkind to me this morning, recording a higher body weight than I've had in a long, long, time. And I'm supposed to be losing weight. So I'm going to have to be really strict about limiting how much I eat now. The wife won't like this at all. She keeps cooking all this food and bringing food home for me to eat.
Tonight I've got two football games to follow, both with good (hopefully) radio feeds. The Army Black Knights will play the Temple Owls, kickoff scheduled for 6:30 this evening. And the Dallas Cowboys will play the NY Giants at 7:15 PM. So... do I go with the earlier college game, or the later NFL game? Decisions, decisions:....
posted Thursday, Sep 26, 2024 at ~5:37 PM #QNSEP2024
posted by Roscoe
20 minutes from now the 2nd game of this best-of-three between the Indiana Fever and the Connecticut Sun will be underway. Fever lost the 1st game on Sunday, so they'll need to win this one to keep playing. If they lose tonight, they'll be out of the WNBA playoffs. And there'll be no more basketball for them until next season. GO FEVER!
posted Wednesday, Sep 25, 2024 at ~6:10 PM #QNSEP2024
posted by Roscoe
Tuesday evening is unfolding comfortably as I listen to the Baltimore Orioles Radio Network bring me the Orioles' game vs the New York Yankees.
The day started rough, though. Last night brought me a new variation of the UPS nightmares that I “thought” I'd put behind me. Lord, it's been nearly three decades since I've retired from that company. Will those nightmares EVER leave me alone?! Anyway I woke confused and disoriented from that dream, and it took several hours for the mental fog to fully lift.
posted Tuesday, Sep 24, 2024 at ~6:23 PM #QNSEP2024
posted by Roscoe
Waiting patiently for the link to Westwood One Radio's Broadcast of tonight's NFL game between the Jaguars and the Bills to activate. Oh sure, I could watch the game live on ESPN if I wanted to. But I'd MUCH RATHER listen to the game on Westwood One Radio. Now if the button on my NFL+ app would just turn blue to let me know it's gone active ...
posted Monday, Sep 23, 2024 at 6:04 PM
posted by Roscoe
Watching Round One games of the WNBA Championship this afternoon. New York is rolling all over Atlanta now in this 1st of 3 games series.
Looking at the week ahead I see rain forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday, so I'm going to try getting yard work done tomorrow. That'll make Tuesday my laundry day of the week.
posted Sunday, Sep 22, 2024 at ~1:13 PM #QNSEP2024
posted by Roscoe
A slow, lazy Saturday. Doing little more than taking out the trash, moving in all my pending chess games, following my daily prayer regimen, following college football games, and now, my Saturday night Svengoolie. Letting my old, arthritic body recover from the yard work earlier this week.
posted Saturday, Sep 21, 2024 at ~7:15 PM #QNSEP2024
posted by Roscoe
A pretty productive Friday, this. My work started early when I played “lawn mower mechanic” and fixed my mower that crapped out on me yesterday morning. The machine being fixed, I pushed it around to the front yard to complete the project I started yesterday but had to cut short when it stopped working.
Total time spent this morning was 3 hours, from 9 o'clock when I started working on the mower until Noon when I finished cutting the grass. The yard isn't very big, but it was super hot (heat index was over 100 when I stopped), and I'm old, so frequent water and rest breaks were necessary.
Of course, my arthritis did NOT appreciate all that work. My hands and shoulders, back and hips are all problems now. And they probably will be through the upcoming weekend. BUT, at least the front yard looks better now.
posted Friday, Sep 20, 2024 at ~7:28 PM #DLSEP2024
posted by Roscoe
This has been a surprisingly productive Thursday. Even though my number one lawn mower crapped out on me when I tried to start it up this morning, I was able to use the weedeater and get a pretty good amount of work done on the front lawn. It looks less scary than before. So... progress, I guess.
While dealing with disappointment over how both the MLB channel and the NFL channel work with my chosen tier of membership at both Sports Channels, I've found that both work quite well on my old Fire Tablet. They work on my phone, too. But the tablet has a bigger screen than my phone for much better viewing, and bigger sound for much better listening.
posted, Thursday, Sep 19, 2024 at ~6:09 PM #QNSEP2024
posted by Roscoe
Last night's sleep wasn't as good as I'd hoped. Two insomnia breaks of moderate length broke up what otherwise would have been seven hours of head on pillow. Still, I woke moderately rested and didn't have to wait too very long for the morning fog to lift from my mind and the morning clumsies to pass.
I'm currently working with between two and three dozen active Correspondence Chess games. It's easy for me to make at least one move per day in each of them, sometimes more than that depending on how many chores I have to deal with during he course of a day, and how frequently my opponents all reply. Monday I'll be hit with an additional 15 or 20 active games when play starts in another CC tourney in which I've already been assigned pairings. That will give me the biggest load of active chess games I've ever carried at any one time. I think.
posted Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024 at ~5:15 PM #QNSEP2024
posted by Roscoe
Events today and yesterday have made me realize that I've not been operating nearly as efficiently as I'd like. That may be because I've not been sleeping well recently. Darned insomnia.
Hopefully a good night's sleep tonight will go a long way to putting everything right. And tonight's should be a good sleep. I'm back to reading fiction again, an entertaining fantasy in line with what I've come to be comfortable with. And I'm listening to MLB this evening. That's way more relaxing than the WNBA or NFL games I've been chasing lately.
posted Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024 at ~6:15 PM #QNSEP2024
posted by Roscoe