What are you doing today ?

Have a couple of minor projects to work on.
Finished the first one: the gas cap plastic lanyard in my Subaru broke. Rather than buy a new cap, I drilled a hole through the cap handle, threaded a nyon lace through it, and anchored it to the cap and door cover. Done and done.
The others which are exterior gardening jobs, will have to wait until the rain stops.
And practicing " Don't get around much anymore." for my lesson tomorrow.
 
My brother is visiting (finally a visitor!) so we're gonna swing by the Cabinet Gorge dam overlook, then show him our little place in Heron, Montana that we've recently put up for sale, then I guess we'll drop a few bucks at one of the little "casinos" on down the road at Trout Creek...
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Got my guitar body back that I sent to Joe Glaser when the B Bender broke during a show a couple of weeks ago. Put the neck back on, strings and I am back in business.

If anyone ever wants to put a B Bender in your tele or tele copy, Joe is where you go!

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Relaxing , dorking on the phone and watching Ancient Aliens oh baking some chicken wings and playing some guitar of course ! 😁
 
I hadn't played a "30-minute rapid" game of chess in several weeks. Those are against other humans with a similar elo rating that chess.com lines you up with.

I find them pretty stressful with the clock ticking away. Between 30-minute games, I've been playing "the bots" for practice; you can take all the time you want, and there are scores of different bots with different ratings from beginner up to grand master.

So I played a 30-minute game today. After the game, you can replay it move by move, with simple AI commentary. But it also shows a 'graph' of who is in a better position each step of the way, according to a master program called 'the engine'.

The engine showed the game pretty even for 16 moves, then it went back and forth a couple times. Then I planned to trade my bishop for a knight that was covering a square where I wanted to put my queen. (Took two moves to put my bishop into position.) Then I moved my queen to the now uncovered square to set up a 'discovered check' on the opponent's king. This didn't end the game, but I got a free knight out of it, putting me 'ahead'.

At this point I had 7 minutes left on my clock, and my opponent had 15. Am I going slow or is he going fast?

Anyway, it didn't last much longer. He made a blunder taking an isolated pawn with his queen, not noticing it was covered by MY queen, thus essentially handing me his queen. He promptly resigned. Yay!

I certainly didn't play a perfect game, but apparently the winner in these games is the one who made the fewest 'mistakes' or blunders. :)
 
Without going into the gruesome details, today I have been extracting broadloom staples, and filling in originally unfinished (by the builders of the house) edges of drywall pieces with mud compound.
Now waiting until tomorrow to sand and re-mud areas as necessary.
And practice for tomorrow's music lesson.
 
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I had quite unusual day . . .

Last night a fellow contacted me - he was worried because he had not heard of our friend for too long.

I checked my log - last phonecall 15th - usually we chat 2-3 times weekly.
So I try to call him - "The number is unavailable!"
I send him text-message.
Since I got no replay this morning - I took his spare keys that he had given me.

And sure enough - my friend laid dead in his bed - how many days ???

Called the cops - contacted our common friends - we have to get together and arrange everything, since he has no family left.
 
Nuuska said:
I had quite unusual day . . .

Last night a fellow contacted me - he was worried because he had not heard of our friend for too long.

I checked my log - last phonecall 15th - usually we chat 2-3 times weekly.
So I try to call him - "The number is unavailable!"
I send him text-message.
Since I got no replay this morning - I took his spare keys that he had given me.

And sure enough - my friend laid dead in his bed - how many days ???

Called the cops - contacted our common friends - we have to get together and arrange everything, since he has no family left.
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Terrible day!
My condolences to you and your friends on the loss of your buddy.
 
Midnight Toker said:
Currently at Johns Hopkins University Hospital where my older brother is having a kidney (w/ tumor) removed. 🙏 Definitely comforting to have one of the world’s best hospitals just a 40 min drive from me.
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Hope all goes well for your brother, and that his recovery is rapid and complete.
 
RBSinTo said:
Toker,
How's your brother's recovery coming along?
Hope he is doing well.
RBSinTo
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Thanks all for the well wishes! 😇 Get this. Went in to have a cancerous kidney removed Tuesday. The procedure took about 3 hrs and was done robotically. His discharge from the hospital? Thursday afternoon!! 😮😮 He’s doing well and is staying at my 88 yr old mothers house for a week (no stairs and 3 meals a day)

The major positive in this. It is very rare that they’d even do this procedure for a stage 4 cancer patient as 90+% are already at the point of no return and there’d be no reason to diminish what limited time they have left with being laid up from recovery of a major surgery. In his case, he’s had such positive reaction to his treatment that they feel w/ the tumor gone, they can now focus on areas where the cancer spread and give him a real chance of walking away from stage 4 kidney cancer….which almost never happens. So cautiously optimistic is the word of the day. I fully understand everything can still go south on a dime, but for the time being, anything positive is great news to me. It’s been a rough 2 yrs.
 
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