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Saturday Morning
Apr. 2nd, 2016 10:05 amMmm, it's like a little cold front blew in overnight. It was a close call whether to put on the heater this morning. April is kind of still early, so that the weather is not exactly being crazy, but one is not inclined to take this for granted, savoring it before the summer heat settles in for good.
I have been debating with myself whether to make chess a bigger part of my life, forget the poker, and just spend all my gaming energy on chess. Last night, I came across a couple of wonderful chess channels on YouTube, providing a cornucopia of material to get down and play around with.
Should I install Chess King on Pop's computer? The rub is that, during the late part of the day, the evening hours, my brain is spaghetti, so that maybe it's best just to play some poker hands to amuse myself. "Master Poker" is a nice piece of software. It can easily keep me amused without being the least demanding - except that it can feel so damn empty, trying to pick the right 10% of the hands not to fold, the right 1% to go 'all in'. Another factor is that if I reserve chess for my more alert daytime hours, then that game gets deeply shortchanged because I need to read as well as work on my journals, not to mention the little news-harvesting that I still manage to do. I would like to give some more quality time to chess. I have even flirted with the idea of devoting my weekends to chess, keeping all the other books for the work week. Yet, it's not like I really love chess. Remember, I don't have a head for strategy. I can never get very far in the game. It's not likely that I will be entering any clubs or tournaments, or even playing others online. More than anything, I just like the idea of having something else in my life besides my reading and writing or watching TV, if only to keep the reading and writing a little fresh. So, I am kind of struggling anew about how to get the best use of the little time that I have left here on earth. I am fooling around with that question, kind of looking for an answer, considering adjustments to my routine, understanding that there is nothing that I can do to make up for the crater-size hole in my life.
I have been debating with myself whether to make chess a bigger part of my life, forget the poker, and just spend all my gaming energy on chess. Last night, I came across a couple of wonderful chess channels on YouTube, providing a cornucopia of material to get down and play around with.
Should I install Chess King on Pop's computer? The rub is that, during the late part of the day, the evening hours, my brain is spaghetti, so that maybe it's best just to play some poker hands to amuse myself. "Master Poker" is a nice piece of software. It can easily keep me amused without being the least demanding - except that it can feel so damn empty, trying to pick the right 10% of the hands not to fold, the right 1% to go 'all in'. Another factor is that if I reserve chess for my more alert daytime hours, then that game gets deeply shortchanged because I need to read as well as work on my journals, not to mention the little news-harvesting that I still manage to do. I would like to give some more quality time to chess. I have even flirted with the idea of devoting my weekends to chess, keeping all the other books for the work week. Yet, it's not like I really love chess. Remember, I don't have a head for strategy. I can never get very far in the game. It's not likely that I will be entering any clubs or tournaments, or even playing others online. More than anything, I just like the idea of having something else in my life besides my reading and writing or watching TV, if only to keep the reading and writing a little fresh. So, I am kind of struggling anew about how to get the best use of the little time that I have left here on earth. I am fooling around with that question, kind of looking for an answer, considering adjustments to my routine, understanding that there is nothing that I can do to make up for the crater-size hole in my life.
