a perfect day meets mehd-afternoon funk

had a great night at work. came home feeling great. woke up feeling ok enough. hung with k before he went to school. we talked star wars without it being annoying. got b breakfast and read her 6 books while attending to d around such. was gonna take a nap, but just didnt feel it when i had the time to do so. oh, well... good day all considered, just feeling meh as time approaches for the kids to get home from school.

it was shaping to be a perfect day...

nap fail, mehrning squandered

a bob dylan song occurred to me shortly after b got on the bus. a line it it where he laughs is what i mostly remember since he sings so quickly the majority of the lines.
for some reason i own very little music by bob, maybe three cds and the song i want is All I Really Want To Do.

tried to find it on iheartradio roku app, but got other stuff by bob or bob wannabes, so i tried other songs i liked by bob. didn't know ramones did a song called she belongs to me. thankfully it's not a cover of bob's song by the same name.

i remember the first time i heard bob sing it on a cd i got from the library while visiting my aunt and uncle in worthington. funny how memory works.

chess and such

when we were buying toys galore at meijer a couple weeks ago, i got a cheap chessboard to teach k how to play chess. didn't think of b wanting learn, not that k wanted to learn to play, but she wanted to learn. finally got around to showing k the pieces tuesday night and he was anxious to do other things.
before i put everything away, b got upset that i wasn't showing her how to play. let's say j wasn't happy that bedtime was disrupted by b's wanting to play. i showed her the set up, the way pieces move and such... so time was consumed quickly.
anyways, yesterday b wanted to play when we were up. i got the board out and had her set the board. she had it mostly correct, just bishops and knights reversed.
we played for a very long time a single game. i basically was playing myself for i helped her think through moves after she started getting upset by my taking pawns. i want her to have fun and to learn, so i'm not going to just let her win and i'm not going to try to beat her in minimal moves. i haven't played in years, so thinking made me have a headache. she wasn't bad.
later in the evening, she wanted to play again. her game wasn't thought out and she was just moving pawns two spaces down the line. again, i took pawns, but she left herself unguarded and lost rook and knight before she ended the game abruptly by knocking everything over.
my headache returned, so i took a nap before heading into work.
i need new hobbies. facebook bores me, and i have no other interaction with people aside from my reconnection. amazing how two people can be so different and alike, explains the seemingly love/hate relationship dynamic.
sorry for the lack of caps, shifting angers my carpal tunnel.