Roscoe's Quick Notes

A few hours ago I won this Correspondence Chess game with the Black pieces by catching the White King in a nifty Rook-Rook Combination Checkmate.

posted Thursday 13/Jun/2024 ~13:40 #QNJUN2024

posted by Roscoe

Early afternoon of what I'm calling a recovery day. Yesterday I handled two “major” chores: my weekly laundry, and cutting branches in the back yard. Shoulders and hands are sore today from all that work, especially with the tree tools. That's no surprise, but it does earn me a “rest” day.

posted Wed Jun 2024 ~12:59 #QNJUN2024

posted by Roscoe

noted @ ~15:15 – About an hour ago I was finishing a work shift, cutting branches in the back yard, when the wife called to me, “Honey!... The Internet has gone out!” So I set the snips aside and went in to see what I could do.

Sure enough, our home Internet is down. According to the help-line, our neighborhood is having an Internet outage. Google says they have a work crew working on the problem and predict the problem may be fixed by ~21:30 tonight.

Luckily I have OTA antennae hooked up to our TVs and I was able to pull in a game show network on the front room TV to keep the wife entertained. I'm basically a radio guy myself, and I've got no problem taking advantage of the wide variety of San Antonio's music, news, talk and sports stations.

noted @ ~18:00 – And... the home Internet comes back up... but intermittently. It comes and goes. So I'm going to try and post this now.

posted Tuesday 11/Jun/2024 ~18:15 #QNJUN2024

posted by Roscoe

Looking forward to an interesting week. We have house guests. Step daughter and her partner (husband-to-be?) are visiting from out of state.

posted Monday, Jun 10, 2024 at ~8:59 AM #QNJUN2024

posted by Roscoe

Early afternoon of a pretty good Father's Day. (It was only late in the day that we realized today isn't Fathers Day. Fathers Day is next Sunday. Ha!) Sylvia took me out for brunch at a favorite restaurant and a frozen yogurt dessert. Back home in time for the early innings of the Rangers vs Giants game.

posted Sunday, Jun 9, 2024 at ~1:42 PM #QNJUN2024

posted by Roscoe

Early Saturday afternoon, listening to the Phillies vs Mets MBL game being played in London, England of all places. Glad that I have an MLB TV AtBat subscription so I can listen to Mets game announcers rather than the FOX Sports guys on TV coverage.

Later this afternoon I'll follow the Rangers vs Giants game. And tonight will be Svengoolie.

posted Saturday, Jun 8, 2024 at ~12:30 PM #QNJUN2024

posted by Roscoe

Early evening Friday and I'm pleased at how the day has gone. The one major “project' of this day has been my 4-month follow-up Doctor's appointment, and that went very well.

posted Friday, Jun 7, 2024 at ~5:05 PM #QNJUN2024

posted by Roscoe

Mildly annoyed that the City didn't empty my blue recycle bin today. I had it out to the curb plenty early.

posted Thursday, Jun 6, 2024 at ~4:35 PM #QNJUN2024

posted by Roscoe

Just home from a BIG buffet lunch at Golden Corral. This used to be one of our favorite restaurants before Bidenomics tightened our belts. Lord, I'm so stuffed right now!

posted Wednesday, Jun 5, 2024 at ~2:00 PM #QNJUN2024

posted by Roscoe

Late afternoon Tuesday and one major chore accomplished today: sorted through paperwork in my home/office, aggregated numerous passwords and mailing addresses. Two imposing piles of correspondence either filed away or otherwise disposed of.

Glad to see the American flag I mounted on the front porch yesterday is still flying. Not too sure about the permanence of my mounting.

posted Tuesday, Jun 4, 2024 at ~4:38 PM #QNJUN2024

posted by Roscoe