A surprisingly productive Wednesday, this. Spent 2 ½ hours mowing the front yard this morning. The whole front yard. Of course, I was ridiculously wiped out afterwards. And I expect to need at least 2 full recovery days before working on the back yard. So, Saturday for that? Maybe, we'll see.
In other news, the new placement of computers back here that I talked about last night is working out quite well.
Tonight's escapist relaxation will be listening to a Texas Rangers vs Baltimore Orioles MLB Game. First pitch is scheduled for about 5 minutes from now.
posted Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025 at ~5:28 PM #QNJUN2025
posted by Roscoe
This Tuesday has been another “recovery” day from the yard work recently done. Think I'll try to ease back into a little more of that work over the next few days.
My social media activity seems to have fallen into a comfortable 12-hour daily block of time from roughly 06:00 through roughly 18:00. And I'll try to avoid paying much attention to it before or after that block of time.
Another change might make working back here in my room more comfortable and productive. Thinking about switching the placement of the two laptop computers. One has a lighted keyboard and the other doesn't. And one laptop is positioned so its keyboard doesn't catch much light from the lamps. A change might take better advantage of the lighting back here
Think I'll make that change right now.
posted Tuesday, 2025-06-24 ~20:15 #QNJUN2025
posted by Roscoe
For a Monday, after a stint on Sunday doing yard work, today has been acceptably productive. Monday in the Roscoe-verse is laundry day, and I got a load of darks and a load of whites all washed, dried, folded, and put away. So the main Monday chore was accomplished. Had a nice video chat with my daughter today and picked up on the latest family news. And I placed a grocery deliver order. Scheduled delivery is tomorrow morning, so I'll be stocking the pallets of bottled water, the cases of coke, and the food items when they arrive.
And the adventure will continue.
posted Monday, Jun 23, 2025 at ~8:00 PM #QNJUN2025
posted by Roscoe
My Indiana Fever just lost to the Las Vegas Aces. And my Texas Rangers lost earlier this afternoon to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Heck. Think I'll put on some relaxing music and read for awhile.
Oh, on a more positive note, I did get some yard work done today. Spent two hours mowing the back alley and part of the back yard. I stumbled and fell once, then decided to put away the mower and come inside. It was stupid hot anyway.
posted Sunday, Jun 22, 2025 at ~4:32 PM #QNJUN2025
posted by Roscoe
The Rangers having won their afternoon game over the Pirates 3-2, and there being nothing on the TV that particularly interests me, the plan now is to switch to a relaxing music channel and quietly read until it's time to put head to pillow. Or until the wife gets home from the Bingo Hall. Whatever.
Oh, for those who are keeping score, I never did get to any yard work this morning. Arthritic hips kept me too unstable on my feet. Maybe tomorrow.
posted Saturday, Jun 21, 2025 at ~18:00 #QNJUN2025
posted by Roscoe
After 2 days with a little bit of yard work (Wednesday and Thursday mornings before the heat of the day got serious, and before my arthritic hips got too ridiculous) it was necessary that I take today to rest and recover. I could barely stagger and shuffle around the house yesterday afternoon / evening and avoid falling down. Hopefully those hips will have recovered enough to allow me to do some more yard work tomorrow morning. If not, there's always the next day.
posted Friday, Jun 20, 2025 at ~5:20 PM #QNJUN2025
posted by Roscoe
With an hour and a half of yard work done, and all the day's pending chess work wrapped up before Noon, this Thursday has already been acceptably productive. Assuming nothing freakishly bad happens in the Roscoe-verse over the course of the next 12 hours, I'll consider this day a success.
posted Thursday, Jun 19, 2025 at ~11:51 AM #QNJUN2025
posted by Roscoe
Another good day. I even got a little yard work done: cutting branches in the back yard, picking up branches that had fallen from one of the big trees back there, and loading the big green organics bin for its collection by the city tomorrow. I was going to get some mowing done back there, but it got too hot so I came inside to cool off under the a/c. The mowing can wait until tomorrow.
posted Wednesday, Jun 18, 2025 at ~5:48 PM #QNJUN2025
posted by Roscoe
A pretty good Tuesday wraps up. Nothing special, but nothing nasty either. Just an all-around good day.
posted Tuesday, Jun 17, 2025 at ~7:45 PM #QNJUN2025
posted by Roscoe
A regular Monday, this. Nothing outlandish or particularly noteworthy in the Roscoe-verse to comment on. It was much easier to follow the day's prayer regimen without the attention-sucking pull of Facebook. Was able to get to my chess games early and without interruption. And got my weekly laundry all done. All good Monday chores.
posted Monday, Jun 16, 2025 at ~7:32 PM #QNJUN2025
posted by Roscoe