The Queen's Gambit.

Jake's stable. Still working on the dehydration issues (even with him drinking a ton).  They are fiddling with it, but that's what would keep him here for a few more days.  C. Diff. symptoms have resolved, but there's no negative test yet.  He could walk around the floor, but they discourage that until he tests negative. I had previously told him that the laps of the floor don't count unless he touches the end wall, but they don't want him touching anything. 

His chess skills are slowly improving.  He doesn't have a rating yet (he's only been playing one month). I'd guess 800-900. When I do interviewing at work, the summer associate candidates occasionally include competitive chess as one of their interests.  If they do, my partner (who has a 2000+ rating) will join the interview. More often than not, the claim doesn't hold water. 

My new Atari 2600+ arrived at home yesterday, but I haven't had much time to play with it.  In limited experimentation, the games are fun. I was afraid the old games would be too easy.  Nope. Ms. PacMan and Surround are very challenging at the faster levels. I need some spare time to clean the old cartridges (alcohol and Q-tips) so that they work. We know that blowing in the cart is not the correct answer. I have hundreds of Atari 2600 and 7800 cartridges (not a shock, right?).

We've been at the hospital so long that all of the cafeteria specialties have repeated. The food's good, but it's a medium size public hospital and they don't have separate grill or pizza stations like larger cafeterias or private hospitals. On the other hand, if they hadn't wasted all that money on a water park...