Watcha doing?

[Athanasius]

Learning my youngest grandson chess. He has talent.

I mean, anyone playing h4 to threaten any impending castling!

(And a new set?)

New set indeed, and if you look well the king and queen are wrongly placed, I let him...

Ah! I couldn't quite tell

[RabbiKnife]

The last time I thought seriously about chess was in The Chestnut Tree Cafe…

I expect the next time I think seriously about chess will be in The Chestnut Tree Cafe…

[Athanasius]

I'm willing to beat anyone here at chess on Chess.com or Lichess, except ProDeo, who I'd expect is quite strong.

[ProDeo]

Not any longer, doing computer chess programming is bad for your elo, you start to play like a computer while you are not 

[ProDeo]

Learning my youngest grandson chess. He has talent.

Good for you.  But grammar lesson.  You don't "learn your grandson"  you TEACH your grandson.  He learns.

Yes Sir !

[tango]

Fun With Floors.

I got a bunch of the stuff I've been pulling down cleaned up, and another sack of trash out ready to be taken away. I've got the next sack of trash slowly filling up, and it's surprisingly heavy given the size of what's in there. Sucking up plaster dust and the general detritus that results from pulling down walls does end up being very heavy. My separator has saved me another couple of HEPA bags in this section of work alone.

Next up was cutting some wood to screw to the joists where I'm replacing flooring. Because I'm putting a section in perpendicular to the floorboards so the join is less obvious, I need to add some support in the space below so I don't have cut ends unsupported by anything. So far I've added some support in the place I could access it easy from above, and tomorrow I get to haul stuff downstairs to screw things into place from below. Then I can press on with laying the new floor, finishing framing the walls and then I can fit the last couple of electrical back boxes and run cables, and then get busy ripping through my remaining insulation panels to finish the thermal insulation in the room. Then comes the sound insulation, which I hope won't be too much trouble.

[Athanasius]

Day trip to London. Now a day to recover from the migraine.

[tango]

I got a couple of sections of floor support installed. It was a fiddly process, I needed my wife to be in the room helping me adjust some wood blocks into position and then press on a board to stop them rising too high while I screwed them in, then stand on a slightly loose board end to give me a reference for the full-width support. But it's there and ready to roll.

Before I started figuring the next step I figured a cleanup of the work space was in order, so got rid of another sack of trash and ripped out some more disconnected knob and tube wiring. I hope I can fit all my scrap metal into the car at the same time when I finally take it all in to the recycling merchant. I've got a growing pile of copper cable, a bunch of aluminum scraps, a big bag of crushed cans, a fair amount of copper pipe, and a big pile of cast iron pipe. I'm suspecting the cast iron pipe is more or less worthless, so it's quite possible I'll just give that to the local thrift shop so they can get whatever value they can from it. That would also save me having to haul lots of heavy things with sharp edges in my car - they can go in the back of the thrift shop's pickup instead.

[RabbiKnife]

I can't wait to see the photos of either when you finish the house or it finishes you.

[Cloudwalker]

Waiting in the lobby for my 3rd doctor appointment of the day.  I had a telephone appointment with my Primary Care provider's office this morning.  Followed by a dental appointment (a fitting for my new dentures.  Next appointment I get them.)  And now I'm waiting to see my new GI doctor.  The first and last of these were prompted by a trip to the emergency room on Monday.  Nothing too serious, but uncomfortable.  I got something stuck in my throat.  It was below the windpipe.  So I could breathe.  I just couldn't swallow.  I suspect I'll have to have another EGD (esophageal gastric dilation.)  If I do it will be my 11th, though the last one was in 2019.  Still, a pain in the neck, literally.

[tango]

I can't wait to see the photos of either when you finish the house or it finishes you.

Right now the latter seems more likely, in which case getting pictures could be tricky. If it should be the former I'll see what I can do.

[RabbiKnife]

Waiting in the lobby for my 3rd doctor appointment of the day.  I had a telephone appointment with my Primary Care provider's office this morning.  Followed by a dental appointment (a fitting for my new dentures.  Next appointment I get them.)  And now I'm waiting to see my new GI doctor.  The first and last of these were prompted by a trip to the emergency room on Monday.  Nothing too serious, but uncomfortable.  I got something stuck in my throat.  It was below the windpipe.  So I could breathe.  I just couldn't swallow.  I suspect I'll have to have another EGD (esophageal gastric dilation.)  If I do it will be my 11th, though the last one was in 2019.  Still, a pain in the neck, literally.

Ugh........

[IMINXTC]

Waiting in the lobby for my 3rd doctor appointment of the day.  I had a telephone appointment with my Primary Care provider's office this morning.  Followed by a dental appointment (a fitting for my new dentures.  Next appointment I get them.)  And now I'm waiting to see my new GI doctor.  The first and last of these were prompted by a trip to the emergency room on Monday.  Nothing too serious, but uncomfortable.  I got something stuck in my throat.  It was below the windpipe. 

Wow! Bringing this before the Lord - asking and hoping for resolution and comfort.

[tango]

Long run yesterday, and it was more humid than I expected so I got home soaked in sweat and my wife said I looked pale (probably from being dehydrated). So I drank a load of water, and didn't make any progress at all on much of anything for most of the rest of the afternoon. But before getting in the shower I decided I needed to make some progress, so performed the enormous task of measuring a support strut to level off the floor, so the last joist isn't significantly lower than the general line of the others. It took more than I hoped, and involved taking a jigsaw to the top edge of an adjacent joist to trim a whisker off the top of it. Now everything is more or less level, and the support is in place. Hopefully motivation will last until I can make some more visible progress on this thing.

[IMINXTC]

Turned on the news today. Same mistake as yesterday.