Random thoughts:

• One of the happier parts of this day was when different elements of the coding project started connecting in my mind and making sense. It wasn't an instant AHA! moment. But it was like a slow and steady change in attitude that happened while I was doing research this evening: a movement from confusion to confidence.

Prayers, etc.:

• 06:00 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 11:15 - Lk 2:22-35
• 19:50 - 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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America.
• 20:15 - Tuesday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
• 21:00 - Day 51 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Sorrowful Mysteries.

Diet:

• 07:45 - dinner rolls
• 10:45 - eggnog
• 12:30 - green beans
• 15:45 - sweet rice with brown sugar 
• 18:30 - munching on cheese

Chores, etc.:

• 07:30 - monitor trusted news sources
• 10:30 - load weekly pill boxes 
• 11:30 - topped off both the organics and recycling bins for tomorrow's pickup
• 15:20 - blog post published
• 16:30 - ready for the radio call of the Cheez-it Bowl Game
• 18:00 - continuing research on my coding project
• 20:20 - time for kickoff of the Alamo Bowl Game

Chess:

• 14:40 - completed moves in all pending CC games

Random thoughts:

• Was able to spend time with each of the day's main chores. Wish I could have spent more time with the chess work and the coding work. Maybe tomorrow.

Prayers, etc.:

• 06:20 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 18:10 - Mt 2:13-18
• 19:50 - 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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America.
• 20:15 - Monday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
• 21:00 - Day 50 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Joyful Mysteries.

Diet:

• 07:30 - 1 banana
• 11:00 - egg rolls 
• 14:00 - 1 ice cream bar
• 16:30 - meat and vegetable soup
• 18:30 - munching on cheese

Chores, etc.:

• 07:45 - follow trusted news sources
• 1145 - finally started the weekly laundry
• 14:40 - ST: Discovery
• 17:00 - Newsmax TV
• 18:00 - NFL Radio's Monday Night Preview Show before tonight's Bills / Patriots game
• 19:15 - And now the game between the Bills and Patriots is on

Chess:

• 17:45 - moved in many CC games

Random thoughts:

• Spent several hours in the middle of the day trying to get two software pkgs to work. Ran into too many problems with both Jekyll and Hugo, both purported to be excellent programs that are simple to use for generating static websites. Huh! I don't think so! Not on my computer anyway. Know what does work though? Hand-coding html (and a little CSS and a touch of Java scripting). That's what I used to do; that's what I'm going to do again!

Prayers, etc.:

• 07:30 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 18:55 - Lk 2:22-38
• 19:40 - 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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America.
• 19:55 - The Sunday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
• 20:20 - Day 49 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Glorious Mysteries.

Diet:

• 08:50 - 1 grapefruit
• 09:25 - pork roast
• 10:00 - sweet bread
• 18:00 - garden salad, whole kernel corn, salmon, sweet rice with brown sugar

Chores, etc.:

• 08:40 - Beard Blather #43 with Saul and Thomas
• 11:00 - turned to a football pregame show, and will probably keep games running in the background all day long
• 18:50 - Exciting win by the Cowboys! Now turning to the Sunday night game.

Chess:

• 10:30 - moved in many CC games

Random thoughts:

• This Saturday has felt very much like a... transition day of sorts. But a transition to what, exactly, remains to be seen. 
• Sure, they lost. But it was good to see (or hear, mostly) the UTSA Roadrunners play so well in a Bowl Game this afternoon.

Prayers, etc.:

• 06:45 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 16:16 - Mt 10:17-22
• 18:00 - 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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America.
• 18:50 - The Saturday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
• 20:00 - Day 48 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Glorious Mysteries.

Diet:

• 07:00 - Christmas cookie and sweet bread
• 10:00 - deviled eggs
• 12:15 - whole kernel corn, mashed potatoes and gravy
• snacked on sweet bread through the afternoon and evening

Chores, etc.:

• 07:00 - Intellectual Fascism by Bill Whittle
• 09:15 - nice video chat with daughter and her family 
• 10:00 - sports talk radio
• 12:00 - radio broadcast of Houston / UCF basketball game
• 15:00 - radio broadcast of LA Lafayette vs UTSA football game
• 15:10 - blog post published 
• 19:00 - Svengoolie
• 19:30 - update/upgrade Raspbian OS
• 20:00 - micro-blog post published

Chess:

• 17:00 - moved in many CC games

Random thoughts:

• Oh, Lord! The bathroom scales were MOST unkind this morning! It's going to take some time to work off the excess body weight I've already picked up!

Prayers, etc.:

• 06:30 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 12:55 - Jn 1:1-5,9-14
• 19:30 - 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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America. - and the Friday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
• 21:30 - Day 47 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Sorrowul Mysteries.

Diet:

• 09:00 - 1 fresh grapefruit,  sweet bread 
• 14:30 - cold pork
• snacking on that sweetbread through the evening

Chores, etc.:

• 06:00 - prepare Sylvia's Christmas gift and card.
• 07:30 - blog post
• 09:00 - The Utopia Curse, by Bill Whittle 
• 10:30 - woke from a mid-morning nap, moved from the recliner in the front room back to my home office to get "productive" 
• 11:30 - 1st college basketball game of the day - Wisconsin vs. Michigan St.        
• 11:50 - micro-blog post           
• 16:30 - Defending Christmas with Bill Whittle                                                  

Chess:

• 15:10 - moved in many CC games

Random thoughts:

• Most of this Christmas Eve 2020 is now history. My day has been spent quietly, eating good home cooked food (thanks Sylvia), listening to a College Bowl Game, attending to some computer / Internet related chores, and playing a little chess. From now until bedtime I hope to spend with my Kindle and some good reading. I've certainly had worse Christmas Eves.

Prayers, etc.:

• 07:30 - "Lord, help me to see." - Mark 10:51
• 08:30 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 17:00 - Lk 1:67-79
• 19:20 -  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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America. - and the Thursday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
• 19:46 - Day 46 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Joyful Mysteries.

Diet:

• 09:30 - fresh apple chunks, sweet bread
• 11:00 - big omelet, bacon, stack of pancakes
• 18:00 - pork steak and gravy, mashed potatoes, egg rolls 

Chores, etc.:

• 12:00 - China 2020 - by Bill Whittle
• 13:00 - blog post
• 13:30 - New Mexico Bowl on the radio - Hawaii vs. Houston
• 13:45 - began registering with keybase
• 18:00 - watch game shows with Sylvia 

Chess:

• 15:30 - moved in all non-ICCF games

Random thoughts:

• Today I shall try to keep my distractions pleasant and productive, rather than depressing and time-wasting.

Prayers, etc.:

• 05:30 - Our Father
• 09:30 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel 
• 16:40 - Lk 1:57-66
• 18:20 -  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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America.
• 19:20 - Wednesday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum
• 20:45 - Day 45 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Glorious Mysteries.

Diet:

• 09:15 - pasta salad,  fresh apple chunks 
• 15:00 - sweet bread
• 15:45 - meat and vegetable soup, stuffed clams, fish, sweet bread
• 17:00 - munching on sweet bread through the evening

Chores, etc.:

• 08:00 - studied keybase
• 08:50 - QN post 
• 11:50 - researched coding tutorials, loaded new software onto my computer
• 13:40 - took a break from chess work to haul 4 wagon loads of groceries into the house from the car. Exhausted now, it will be later in the day, after I've recovered,  when I can return to my chess.
• 14:00 - watch game show
• 15:00 - turned to the New Orleans Bowl Game on the radio - LA Tech vs. Georgia Southern
• 18:00 - Montgomery Bowl on now - Memphis vs. Florida Atlantic

Chess:

• 15:00 - completed the day's chess work

Random thoughts:

• For part of this day I slipped back into an old habit of paying too much attention to the "news" of the day. Thankfully I caught myself before wasting too many hours. With good reading material at hand, good weather outside, plenty of chess work to do, and college basketball in full swing, Lord knows there are better ways to spend my time than listening to the crisis preachers of "doom."

Prayers, etc.:

• 07:15 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 10:00 - Lk 1:46-56
• 18:45 - 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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America.
• 19:30 - Tuesday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum
• 20:00 - Day 44 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Sorrowful Mysteries.

Diet:

• 07:30 - 1 fresh grapefruit
• 08:30 - fried chicken
• 12:45 - pizza
• 17:45 - pizza again

Chores, etc.:

• 07:30 - checked into trusted news sources
• 09:35 - posted to micro-blog
• 11:00 - work with #matrix chat client
• 12:45 - watch game shows with Sylvia 
• 13:30 - load my daily pill boxes for the week 
• 14:00 - Star Trek: Discovery 
• 17:00 - Newsmax TV
• 19:00 - Turned to radio broadcasts of college basketball games

Chess:

• 18:30 - finished the day's chess work

Random thoughts:

• The main chore of every Monday is doing the weekly laundry. That's been done by late afternoon and moves in all pending chess have been made, too. Taking care of things at a pretty good pace today. 

Prayers, etc.:

• 07:10 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 12:00 - Lk 1:39-45
• 16:45 - 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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America.
• 17:55 - Monday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum
• 20:05 - Day 43 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Joyful Mysteries.

Diet:

• 08:00 - 1 Arby's RB sandwich, 1 peanut butter sandwich, fresh apple chunks 
• 13:00 - Vietnamese carry out with pepper beef, fried rice, spring rolls, egg drop soup. 
• 16:15 - fudge

Chores, etc.:

• 09:00 - monitor trusted news sites
• 10:30 - woke from a good morning nap
• 11:45 - started the weekly laundry
• 13:00 - watch game shows
• 16:10 - Classic Doctor Who on Pluto TV
• 18:30 - American Cowards by Bill Whittle

Chess:

• 15:50 - moved in all pending CC games

Random thoughts:

• This has been a quiet, restful Sunday. Main elements of the day: eating good home-cooked meals, spending quality time with Sylvia, watching football games, working on my chess games and registering for two more club tournaments, and focusing on my daily prayers. Relaxing my way toward bedtime with a good book should finish things off in fine style.

Prayer, etc.:

• 07:00 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 14:05 - Lk 1:26-38
• 18:20 - 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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America.
• 18:45 - Sunday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum
• 19:00 - Day 42 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Glorious Mysteries.

Diet:

• 10:30 - a big omelet filled with meat and veggies, stack of pancakes
• 15:15 - fried chicken 

Chores, etc.:

• 08:10 - Beard Blather  #42
• 10:00 - turn to various football pregame shows
• Noon - Cowboys vs 49ers - Go Cowboys!
• 15:30 - Now watching Kansas City vs. the Saints

Chess:

• 15:30 - moved in all pending CC games

Random thoughts:

• Sick and tired of hearing SJW sermons on sports broadcasts.
• Today I've set up the Ruby programming environment and installed Jekyll software on my old linux computer, listened to Ohio St. win an exciting football game, and now I've got Clemson @ Notre Dame on the radio. I was notified of another CC win, and I have Svengoolie to look forward to tonight.  Sweet!

Prayer, etc.:

• 05:45 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 15:10 - Lk 1:12-25
• 19:15 - 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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America.
• 19:30 - Saturday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum
• 20:00 - Day 41 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Glorious Mysteries.

Diet:

• 07:45 - braunschweiger sandwich 
• 10:00 - fresh apple chunks 
• 10:45 - chicken, pork, and vegetables stew - fresh pineapple 
• 14:00 - ice cream bar
• 16:45 - 2 Arby's RB sandwiches, large chocolate shake

Chores, etc.:

• 06:00 - Watching videos from Thomas and Bill, as I do most mornings.
• 09:00 - radio from Big 10 Network - Tailgate Show before the Ohio St. game
• 09:55 - QN post published 
• 12:00 - have set up Ruby programming environment and Jekyll software on old laptop.
• 15:05 - time now for the Notre Dame / Clemson game - I'm tuned into the radio broadcast
• 19:00 - Svengoolie

Chess:

• 13:15 - moved in all pending CC games 

Random thoughts:

• If I could describe my Friday in two words they would be: calm, and productive.. And that's a mighty fine combination to have. This evening finds me listening to the radio call of an exciting football game. After the game I'll read a bit into a new book I've just started, do my nightly Rosary, and...  that's it. 

Prayers, etc.:

• 06:45 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 09:15 - Mt 1:18-25
• 17:45 - 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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America.
• 19:15 - Friday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum
• 20:50 - Day 40 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Sorrowful Mysteries.

Diet:

• 08:15 - bowl of oatmeal, chicken salad sandwich, 1/2 peanut butter sandwich 
• 13:00 - mushroom-cheese Whataburger, large chocolate shake
• 17:30 - chicken salad sandwich, ice cream bar

Chores, etc.:

• 10:00 - update budget book, paper planner, and note cards
• 10:30 - research and work on new website project
• 12:15 - micro-blog post published
• 13:00 - watch game shows with Sylvia
• 15:00 - work with Christmas corner lighting
• 17:00 - blog post published
• 17:00 - turned to Newsmax TV
• 19:00 - tuned into the radio pregame show of tonight's Pac-12 Football Championship Game - Oregon Ducks @ USC

Chess:

• 18:20 - moved in all pending CC games

Random thoughts:

• The cedar fever was quite bothersome today. It's not hitting me nearly as hard this year as in most years, probably because I'm self-quarantining (staying indoors mostly, away from people and pollen), mega-dosing vitamins, and generally taking my health so seriously as I deal with the ongoing CCP-flu pandemic threat. Some years the cedar hits me so hard that I'm actually sick for weeks on end, every day feeling much worse than today. But today, for the first time this cedar season, it was... quite bothersome.  

Prayers, etc.:

• 05:55 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 17:00 - 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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America.
• 17:15 - Mt 1:1-17
• 19:45 - Thursday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum
• 20:15 - Day 39 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Joyful Mysteries.

Diet:

• 07:40 - bowl of oatmeal, fresh grapefruit, 1/2 braunschweiger sandwich 
• 12:20 - bowl of chicken, pork, and vegetable stew 
• 17:25 - Fresh pineapple
• 20:40 - ice cream bar

Chores, etc.:

• 07:45 - monitor trusted news sources 
• 09:00 - leisure reading
• 13:15 - watch game shows
• 15:00 - leisure reading
• 16:45 - Newsmax TV

Chess:

• 16:40 - moved in all pending CC games

Random thoughts:

• Nice to have a morning when I'm allowed to sleep late, and actually do sleep late.
• basketball on the radio and leisure reading make for a nice, relaxing evening.

Prayers, etc.:

• 07:30 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 12:55 - Lk 7:18-23
• 19:00 - 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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America.
• 19:35 - Wednesday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum
• 21:30 - Day 38 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Glorious Mysteries.

Diet:

• 09:30 - big omelet. fried spam, 3 pancakes
• 14:45 - fresh pineapple, 1 1/2 fish sandwiches
• 18:50 - 1 banana

Chores, etc.:

• 09:00 - listen to local talk radio
• 10:00 - update budget book, paper planner, note cards
• 10:10 - turned to a Christmas music channel
• 10:35 - QN post
• 11:00 - The Rush Limbaugh Show
• 11:30 - blog post
• 11:45 - review recent news articles
• 13:15 - watch game shows 
• 18:00 - 1st basketball game of the night - Ohio St. @ Purdue
• 20:00 - and the night's 2nd game - Duke @ Notre Dame

Chess:

• 15:45 - moved in all ongoing CC games

Random thoughts:

• I was able to catch up on yesterday's chores that I had to let slide, and I took care of today's chores as well. But early evening finds me too tired to work on any projects, so I'll just relax in the recliner and let the TV and the Internet and a good book entertain me until it's time to head to bed.

Prayers, etc.:

• 07:00 - Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
• 16:05 - Mt 21:28-32
• 18:20 - 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 Archbishop Vigano's Prayer for The United States of America.
• 18:55 - Tuesday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum
• 20:30 - Day 37 of the 54-Day "Get Strong" Novena For Our Nation, Bible reading,  meditations and prayers - tonight's Rosary: The Sorrowful Mysteries.

Diet:

• 08:00 - bowl of oatmeal, fresh grapefruit,  braunschweiger sandwich 
• 13:00 - beef, chicken. and vegetable stew
• 13:45 - double cheeseburger, chicken tenders 😋 
• 17:20 - another double cheeseburger 🍔 
• 18:00 - ice cream bar

Chores, etc.:

• 08:00 - Watch Epoch Times interview with Gen. Michael Flynn
• 09:30 - start my weekly laundry
• 11:00 - filled my daily pill boxes
• 13:00 - watch game shows 
• 17:00 - NEWSMAX TV
• 18:30 - Wheel of Fortune
• 19:00 - Bill Whittle's Know Your Enemy video

Chess:

• 16:00 - moved in all pending CC games