Quarantine Day #163.
Last night I went to bed at 10:45, fell asleep quickly,
got up twice during the night, finally waking at 6:30 and getting up at 7:30.
Last night I played 4 games
on Chess.com, winning 1 and losing 3. In the first game I had black and played
the Stonewall Dutch but in the middle game I dropped a pawn and things fell
apart after that and I resigned on the 33rd move. In the 2nd
game I was up a rook and queen in the endgame but lost on time. In the 3rd
game I had black and my opponent played a very unorthodox opening but I soon
had the advantage and had a won game but again lost on time. In the 4th
game I had white and played the London System and I checkmated him on the 20th
move. I think 2 of my games were against Colombians. The games show a flag of
the player’s country and they looked like the Colombian flag. My new rating is 1223.
Teresa left at 9:15 for
her walk followed by a trip to Exito.
I watched the first 35
minutes of the Today show then left for my walk.
I returned at 10:35 and
Teresa 10 minutes later.
In the afternoon I had a
2-hour chess lesson with Juan Carlos.
Teresa beat me in parcheesi
5 games to 4.
Earlier this
week, The Daily Beast reported that President Trump had one thing on his mind heading
into his Republican National Convention.
The president
was telling his closest aides that he was determined to beat his rival Joe
Biden in the TV ratings. He was requesting daily ratings for the Democratic
National Convention and insisted that his RNC spectacle would demolish their
“pathetic” numbers, according to a senior administration official.
In the end,
apparently not even all of the unethical pomp and circumstance of a Trump-branded White House as the backdrop of his big speech Thursday
night could draw more viewers than Biden’s solemnly rousing speech to an empty auditorium.
According to initial Nielsen numbers, President Trump’s speech Thursday
night drew 14.1 million viewers across the three broadcast networks and three
major cable news networks. That is more than three million fewer viewers than
the 17.5 million who tuned in to watch Biden’s speech one week earlier.
When those
numbers are expanded out across nine broadcast and cable networks,
Biden still beat Trump by a fairly wide margin, 23.6 million to 21.6 million.
At one point, Trump garbled his words
and said, “Thanks to advances, we have pioneered the fatality rate” — when he
wanted to say that pioneering advances have led to an 80 percent drop in the
fatality rate since April.
A convention speech watched by tens of
millions is not the greatest time to slip up in this way. You don’t want your
most memorable moment to be a mistake.
On
Thursday night, President
Donald Trump accepted the
Republican presidential nomination for a second term.
Twenty-four hours earlier, he had a very hard time saying exactly what he would
do with another four years.
"But so I think, I think it would be, I think it would be
very, very, I think we'd have a very, very solid, we would continue what we're
doing, we'd solidify what we've done, and we have other things on our plate
that we want to get done," Trump told
The New York Times' Peter Baker.
Last
month, in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Trump
offered this up when asked about four more years:
"One of the things that will be really great -- the word
experience is still good, I always say talent is more important than
experience, I've always said that -- but the word experience is a very
important word, a very important meaning.
"I never did this before, never slept over in
Washington. I was in Washington maybe 17 times and all of a sudden I'm the
President of the United States, you know the story, riding down Pennsylvania
Avenue with our first lady and I say this is great but I didn't know very many
people in Washington, it wasn't my thing. I was from Manhattan, from New York,
and now I know everybody. And I have great people in the administration. You
make some mistakes, like an idiot like Bolton, you don't have to drop bombs on
everybody."
(Sidebar: That is 138 words of not answering the
question.)
The
US has 5,825,039 ð 5,878,827 ð 5,928,020 coronavirus cases
with 179,200 ð 180,600+ ð 181,300+ deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 572,270 ð 582,022 ð 590,520 cases with 18,767 deaths. Medellin has 43,250 ð 43,966 ð 45,035 cases, an increase of 1,015 from August 27th
to 28th. Envigado has a total of 2,372 cases, an increase of 44 from
August 27th to8. So new infections have decreased for Colombia but continue
to increase in Medellin and Envigado.
Joke of
the day
An
old Native American wanted a loan for $500.
The
banker pulled out the loan application.
"What are you going to do with the money?" he asks the Indian.
"Buy
Silver, make jewelry, and sell it," was the response.
"What
have you got for collateral?"
"Don't
know collateral," replied the Indian
"Well
that's something of value that would cover the cost of the loan.
"Have you got any vehicles?"
"Yes.
1949 Chevy pickup," replied the Indian.
The banker
shook his head, "How about livestock?"
"Yes,
I have a horse," replied the Indian.
"How
old is it?" the banker asks.
"Don't
know, has no teeth," replies the Indian.
Finally the
banker decided to make the $500 loan.
Several weeks
later the old man was back in the bank.
He pulled out a roll of bills, "Here to pay." he said.
He then handed the banker the money to pay his loan off.
"What
are you going to do with the rest of that money?" the banker asks.
"Put
in hogan", replied the Indian.
"Why
don't you deposit it in my bank," the banker asked.
"Don't
know deposit," replied the Indian.
"You
put the money in our bank and we take care of it for you.
Whenever you want to use it, you can withdraw it."
The old
Indian leaned across the desk and asks the banker...
"What you got for collateral?"
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