Lots of Solar Energy In Today's Holiday Goals Report... Complete With A Chess Memory Challenge (Fail!)...

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I was determined to keep today's video shorter than yesterday's blather-fest and while I succeeded in doing that, today's video seems to have packed as much blather into 10 minutes as yesterday's 18 minute marathon!

Tarot of the Day

That's what happens when those of us with Leo as our Ascendant draw the (19) Sun as our tarot card of the day on the Day of the Sun when the sun is in sidereal Leo! (i.e. the sun is still in the constellation of Leo if you check out its location in the sky and not on a standard astrology chart...)

Summer Holiday Goals Progress Report

Yesterday I managed to complete all my daily tasks, which means...

  1. I'm on track with my Perennial Tarot blog updates

  2. I'm back on track with my physical workout goals...

  3. I'm now ahead of schedule on my CTP Talk goals!

  4. I'm on track with my chess study goals...

  5. I completed my 9th goal yesterday by sending 30 Hive to the CTP Swarm Booster account @ctpsb!

Today

  1. I completed my Perennial Tarot blog goals for the day...

  2. Once I hit the "Post" button, I will complete my CTP Talk goal for the day...

  3. I did more than the 2 hours I scheduled for chess study today. I'm 85% of the way through the book I'm studying, so I can probably get it done in the next 2-3 days...

  4. I finished editing my Beginners' Crypto Course and was pleased to discover it only needed a light edit.

52 Card Pickup

Ahem, for further information about that little detour into the nether regions of my school days, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52_pickup

Chess Board Placenames Memory Challenge (Fail!)

He he, I'm making progress in remembering the placenames I've allocated to the squares of the chessboard.

It's funny how I sometimes remember different places from the places I've allocated, places that fit the memory system just as well.

I was surprised that the first place I thought of for h8 (in the video) was Avignon in France, when I KNOW that a8 = the mythical Avalon and the black rook = King Arthur!

a8 (8 = "f" or "v") = AValon and the a8 Rook = King Arthur.

g8 (which I mistook for a repeat of a8 (!)) = GiFu (a prefecture of Japan) and the g8 Knight = Nobunaga (a famous Japanese warlord).

h8 = HeVer Castle in England. Ann Boleyn lived in Hever, so the h8 Rook = Ann Boleyn.

e3 (3 = "m") = EMden in Germany (not "Holland" as I said in the video!)

e2 (2= "n") = BaNbury Cross

Afternoon Netflix

I took an hour or so off this afternoon to lounge through one episode of a Netflix miniseries called Unorthodox. The main character, an orthodox Jew from New York, runs away from an unhappy arranged marriage and flies to Berlin in search of a new life on her own terms.

I lived in Berlin for about nine months as an English teacher 28 years ago (already), so that adds an extra layer of enjoyment of the series for me... Check it out here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unorthodox_(miniseries)

Tonight's Tipple

I mentioned that the wine I was drinking was a white wine from Italy. It's a trebbiano-chardonnay called Tavernello Vino Biologico Organico that is produced in Faenza, just down the line from my first overseas teaching gig in Imola in the lush Emilia Romagna region of Italy.

Cheers!

David Hurley

https://davidhurley.net

https://davidhurleyinjapan.net

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