No focus today, it's rainy and warm and muggy.
I think I like cold rain better than warm and sticky rain. At least when it's cold you can toss a log on the fire and pull up a good book. This humid crap? Just makes me feel like I need a shower every 35 minutes.
I think I like the fact that the Lions and Bills are 2-0 and the Colts are 0-2. A little diversity is the spice of life. If the Redskins and/or Patriots can't get to the Super Bowl this year I'm pulling for a Detroit-Cleveland(or Buffalo). Call it "The Exorcist's Bowl."
I think the Washington Capitals are going to have a good playoff run and that this time next year their Stanley Cup Championship gear will be going on sale. And you'll be sick of seeing all the red around here. The DC area loves a winner (unless the team wears burgundy and gold...)
I think the Redskins "rabid" fan base is dwindling for several reasons: 1) the team has not been very good for a long time; 2) the owner always seems to make himself as loathsome as possible; 3) the DC area has always been transient, people move here from elsewhere; 4) with the advent of Sunday Ticket, people who move here can continue to follow their home teams for $300-400 a year, in the old days the Redskins were the only game in town; 5) the Baltimore Ravens are a much better team that plays about 40 miles from the Redskins; 6) the rather racist logo and name....imagine a team being called "The Hanoi Gooks" or "The Verona Wops" or many other names that basically single a race out for the mere color of its skin.
Maybe on point six (6) above I'm off. But there's a group of people who happen to have red skin who take offense to it. Not a large group, but...haven't we evolved past this? Danny, you can make more money with a new name and logo. "Warriors" or something like that.
Michaela Selahi? No thanks. Tareq? Why are you on the "Today" show wearing horns? And crying?
Watched the opening episodes of "Community" and "Modern Family" last night. One was mildly entertaining, the other was not -I'll leave it to you to guess which.
I absolutely dug the new Washington Wizards uniforms. A shame there's no NBA this year.
My Boston Red Sox are doing their best impression of the Red Sox this September. It's OK because throughout my lifetime they've usually done the SWAN DIVE in June, and as of this writing they're actually still in the wild card. Dream team, indeed.
Speaking of baseball, does anyone agree with me that they should add a round to the playoffs and dump 3 weeks of regular season games? Start the season in mid-April. Or shave off some of the September games. Can you imagine trotting out onto the field as a Houston Astro today? What're you playing for?
On second thought, I can imagine trotting out for a hopeless cause when they're paying me millions, or even half-millions. Doesn't seem so bad, really, to just play out the string.
Reading "Dance with Dragons" right now, Book 5 in Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire." I swore to myself that I was gonna take a break between books 4 and 5 but I cracked it open and .....away I went!
I think the breathlessness over next November's election can wait 6 months or so.
A few weeks back, after the Hurricane blew through here, I cut up some broken limbs for my neighbor. I was running my own yard trash to the dump and it was no trouble. A few days later she dropped by with a restaurant voucher. I felt a little lousy because I didn't do the work seeking repayment, but it also seemed less-than-gracious to refuse it. Quite the problem, huh?
The entire time I've been typing this I've been peppered with questions and requests ("can I change the channel, dad?" "Dad, I want eggs for breakfast", "dad, you're making them wrong!" etc etc etc arrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggg). This is why my mind is so bloody fragmented.
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