QNSEP2024

More chess games coming! Oh, my!

I found the following message waiting for me when I checked into one of my chess clubs this morning: “Congratulations on being the winner of your group in the 1st round of Casual Chess section, 239th GameKnot tournament! The player with the top score in your group has been moved to the next higher section due to their top rating in the past 90 days exceeding the rating limit of the section, so you will be advancing to the next round as the runner-up.

“2nd round will start on Monday, September 16th, 2024.”

Yikes! I'm already expecting a good number of new games later this month when a tourney over at ICCF in which I'm registered issues pairings and begins play. And now I have these new ones at GameKnot starting next week.

posted Monday, Sep 9, 2024 at ~7:30 AM #QNSEP2024

A slow, easy Sunday is underway. Arthritis in my right hand and left shoulder is problematic, but that's expected following yesterday morning's yard work. Hopefully the hand and shoulder will be healed up enough to let me get some front yard work taken care of tomorrow or Tuesday morning.

Following an early NFL game then a mid-afternoon Indiana Fever game, both on TV, are on my agenda today. Laundry and yard work are planned for Monday and Tuesday. Later this week I hope to upgrade the Debian OS on this laptop from version 10.4 to 11.6.

posted Sunday, Sep 8, 2024 at ~11:55 AM, #QNSEP2024

Early afternoon Saturday of a day that's already been productive. This morning I spent two hours doing yard work: mowing the alley and trimming the bushes growing through the back fence. Listening to college football is occupying my afternoon, and tonight I've got Svengoolie.

posted Saturday, Sep 7, 2024 at 12:52 PM #QNSEP2024

You know, one thing that really bothers me about trying to follow WNBA games is there's no way to do it without subscribing to a myriad of streaming services. There is no one service that carries all the games. I know. I've subbed to many of them. And the WNBA (or its streaming carriers) tends to block viewers claiming territorial reasons when none could possibly apply. Hopefully, with all the increased viewership and money coming into the WNBA now, they'll be able improve this situation for next season.

posted Friday, Sep 6, 2024 at 6:05 PM #QNSEP2024

So much of this day has been spent looking forward to tonight's Thursday Night NFL game between the Ravens and Chiefs. And now, checking the current weather in KC, where the game is to be played, I see thunderstorms and lightning. Hope they play. My plan is to listen to a radio broadcast of the game through the NFL+ app.

posted Thursday, Sep 5, 2024 at 6:50 PM #QNSEP2024

And another good Wednesday winds down. Watching a replay of Sunday's Indiana Fever vs Dallas Wings WNBA game that I was unable to see when it was first played on Sunday. The last several days of rain have got the ground too wet to mow, but when things dry out I will absolutely have to take the lawn mower out to the front yard.

posted Wednesday, 2024-09-03 ~19:10 #QNSEP2024

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

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

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