Prayers, etc.:
* 06:15 – Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
* 17:10 – Jn 6:22-29
* 19:40 – The Hour of Vespers according to the Traditional Catholic Breviary: Bible readings, prayers, and meditations for Monday, 19 April.
* 20:00 – Fr. Chad Rippberger's Prayer of Command to protect my family, my sons, my daughter and her family, my granddaughters and their families, my great grandchildren, and everyone for whom I have responsibility from any demonic activity; and The Monday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
* Tonight's Five Decades of the Rosary before bed will be the Joyful Mysteries.
Chores, etc.:
* 07:20 – National Guard Attacked – Crossroads
* 08:50 – Only Babies Can Save Us Now – Bill Whittle
* 11:00 – updating paper planner, note cards, etc.
* 11:30 – started the weekly laundry
* 16:00 – Newsmax TV
* 18:00 – Local News and Weather
* 18:30 – Wheel of Fortune
* 19:00 – MLB TV – tonight I choose the Giants vs. Phillies game
Chess, etc.:
* 14:25 – moved in all pending CC games
Her part-time job has now resumed its regular, pre-pandemic hours. Instead of 9:00 AM to Noon, 3 days a week for awhile, then 4 days a week for awhile; now she's working 8:00 AM to Noon, Monday through Friday again. So I'm getting up an hour earlier every day to help her get ready.
Prayers, etc.:
* 09:00 – Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
* Noon – Pater Noster
* 13:00 – Lk 24:35-48
* 18:20 – The Hour of Vespers according to the Traditional Catholic Breviary: Bible readings, prayers, and meditations for 18 April, 2nd Sunday in Easter
* 18:40 – Fr. Chad Rippberger's Prayer of Command to protect my family, my sons, my daughter and her family, my granddaughters and their families, my great grandchildren, and everyone for whom I have responsibility from any demonic activity; and The Sunday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
* Tonight's Five Decades of the Rosary before bed will be the Glorious Mysteries.
Diet:
* 09:00 – cake
* 09:30 – 1 orange
* Noon – fried chicken
* 16:00 – plate of spaghetti and meat sauce, brown bread and butter
Chores, etc.:
* 09:00 – Beard Blather 59
* Noon – A Conversation About the Latin Mass
* 14:00 – Tuned into the radio call of this afternoon's NASCAR Race
* 19:45 – Have finally replaced the ink cartridges that my printer asked me for yesterday morning.
Of the three or four (or five?) regular announcers for MRN.com during NASCAR Races this season, one of them insists on speaking into his microphone while wearing a mask. Why won't someone tell him how AWFUL that sounds?!
Prayers, etc.:
* 07:00 – Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
* 08:15 – Jn 6:16-21
* 09:50 – The Killing of Daunte Wright: Malice and Mistakes – A Virtue Signal
* 17:20 – The Hour of Vespers according to the Traditional Catholic Breviary: Bible readings, prayers, and meditations for 17 April, Our Lady's Saturday, Comm: S. Anicetus, Pope, Martyr
* 17:50 – Fr. Chad Rippberger's Prayer of Command to protect my family, my sons, my daughter and her family, my granddaughters and their families, my great grandchildren, and everyone for whom I have responsibility from any demonic activity; and The Saturday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
* Tonight's Five Decades of the Rosary before bed will be the Glorious Mysteries.
Diet:
* 09:00 – 1 banana, bowl of oatmeal
* 11:30 – big bowl of meat & vegetable soup
* 14:10 – plate of spaghetti & meat sauce, brown bread and butter
* 16:20 – munching on fresh baked cake
Chores, etc.:
* 09:15 – The Plot to Transform America – Crossroads
* 12:30 – tuned in to the radio call of this afternoon's NASCAR Truck Race
* 15:10 – When the NASCAR Race ended I turned to MLB TV and caught the White Sox vs Red Sox game just starting. Chicago leading 1-0 in the top of the 1st inning.
* 19:00 – It's Saturday night, so... Svengoolie
Sweet! When this afternoon's NASCAR Race ended I turned to MLB TV and caught the White Sox vs Red Sox game just starting. Chicago leading 1-0 in the top of the 1st inning.
Even before I turned on the computer to which it's attached, my printer came to life, informed me on its little led screen that it had just received an update, and told me it was time to change my ink cartridges. Amazing how it can do that.
It took 61 darned moves, but I finally won this Correspondence Chess game with the Black pieces after my opponent playing White resigned.
He and I had knocked off all of each others' major pieces and we were left with only Kings and pawns. Over on the right side of our board, as pictured above, I had effectively blocked his pawns. And on the left side of the board my King was patiently ushering a group of Black pawns down to White's King row where I would promote at least one of them to a Queen. Then I would force an eventual Checkmate.
It might take many more moves to end this game by checkmate, but it would happen eventually. There was nothing he could do to prevent it. He was right to resign when he did.
The position of pieces on our board at game's end is above, and our full move record is below:
