I got up around 8 o'clockish this morning feeling a bit less lethargic than yesterday and ready to get stuff done....
Habit #1: Do 10 Press-ups
I stuck to just 10 press-ups today, but I did a bit of loosening up and leg-stretching beforehand, and the 75 second squat and hand strengthening after.
However, my good intentions were swiftly derailed by some scheduling difficulties for the upcoming college term the resolving of which took up a large chunk of the morning...
So the only other thing I got done before lunch was...
Habit #3: Chess Study
I reviewed yesterday's chess opening variations, the "map", the "rose", the "rat", the "rhino" and the "ram".
Then I studied five more variations in the Nimzo-Indian Defence, "rower" (44), "rail" (45), "arch" (46), "ruck" (47), and "roof" (48).
Here's the tabiya for the 46th variation, "arch":
Why is the white knight on g1 lying down?
That is to remind me that in this variation of the Nimzo-Indian the g1 knight does not move in the opening sequence, whereas in most of the others he moves to e2, usually on the fifth move, following the Reshevsky Variation.
I have named all the pieces, and the g1 knight is called "Falstaff" because he stands on g1, which I have named "Gad's Hill" (G = g and d = 1 = g1!), where there is a famous pub named after Falstaff. (Charles Dickens bought a house at Gad's Hill, so the g1 knight can also be called "Dickens", whichever works best.
Anyway, Falstaff, Shakespeare's much loved fat and cowardly knight, the friend of the dissolute Prince Hal, is a lazy fellow who would prefer to stay at home and leave the construction of an arch to others! Here we see him sleeping in his g1 chamber!
As for the arch, it is being inspected by Pope Boniface (the Bishop on d3). It is actually a squinched arch, with the white pawns on c3, d4, e3 making the main arch, and the black pawns on c5 and d5 making up the squinch together with the c3 and d4 pawns.
Habit #5 Lucrece Paper - The Complaint of Rosamond
Today I decided to read a poem by Samuel Daniel called The Complaint of Rosamond, which was published to great acclaim in 1492, two years before Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece appeared on the scene.
Rosamund discovered by the jealous Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
The Poem
The ghost of Rosamond appears to the poet, Samuel Daniel, and appeals to him to tell her story, or rather, to let her speak through his muse.
She was a young beauty who caught the eye of King Henry II and became his lover. To conceal the affair, he built a palace within a maze or labyrinth and concealed her in it.
However, his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine found the thread that guided the king through the maze, followed it, discovered Rosamond and poisoned her.
The poem is a vigorous read and very enjoyable, with some seasonable lines to boot for older chaps whose eyes are not too dimmed by time to be beguiled:
Age having worn his pleasure out of date:
But hap comes never or it comes to late,
For such a dainty which his youth found not,
Unto his feeble age did chance allot.
Habit #2: Promote My Squeeze Page
Today I promoted my squeeze page on EuropeanSafelist, MillionLeadsForFree, and AdExchangeClub.
No new subscribers for the second day in a row...
30 Day Challenge - Noise Cash
This is the fourth day of my #ctpcontent challenge and I have "N.C" on the calendar for today, so I popped over to Noise.Cash and posted yesterday's CTPTalk blog post, and left a couple of comments on other people's posts. I also "liked" several posts, with only a cent or two in tips being donated this time.
Habit #4: Blog on CTP Talk
He he, I especially enjoy getting to this habit at the end of the blog post because it means I'm pretty much done for the day!
Cheers!
David Hurley
#InspiredFocus
Photo Source: John William Waterhouse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons