Monday, August 6, 2018

Monday morning ramble

TEXT is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.  - Louise Rosenblatt

I suppose I should write SOMETHING before I lose internet for good later today.  I'm taking my old router in to get it replaced as they said I could get UP TO 200 meg DL by switching out my old router . . . . we shall see.  I'm typically at 68meg download at the moment so I doubt I will SEE any real improvement.

Of course a study said that people with high speed internet have 25 minutes of sleep LESS then people without high speed internet.

High Speed Internet Is Causing Widespread Sleep Deprivation, Study Finds

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DJ, Elwood and I went to the Brewer game Friday night and what a game it was . . in the last inning.

As you can see from the image MY seat was not perfect.  Some guy with a huge mammoth head covered 1st base all night and 50% of the time people were taking photos or selling beer or just standing doing nothing in the aisle.



Lesson - always have the aisle on the RIGHT side of you.   We moved around so it was no big deal - had to get the $12 (literally) beer.  The seats I believe were better then the Club section - no wait - the club sections seats are better/wider but there is more, and better, beer the section right below the club section.  We found one place with 30 craft beers on tap . . . . for $12 each.  Seemed expensive. $12 for a Mudpuppy Porter.


Of course when Elwood had to have his cigarette we waited near TV screens and hung out with our favorite friends.

The game was GREAT - I've never seen a walk off Home run before.

Then the next night balderdash was at the 1st inning blow-out game and in the 9th inning I got a text about NOT going home early and now a home run ties it.  Brewers won, he could have left after the first inning.

HEY - I was not saying people need to leave early but if you are one of the many people whine about the length of MLB games - he could have left after the first inning knowing who would win. just sayin'.    PERSONALLY - I would not leave, it's stupid and I have no isses with teh length of baseball games.

His game took 3:09   about 8 minutes over the average.  My game took 2:46 and I feel ripped off.

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Relatives flying in from Texas Wednesday to escape the heat.  Sadly I have golf league Wednesday night and gone all day Thursday on a 18 hole Nagawaukee / Brewer game day.  They are going to the Packer pre season game so no worries.

6:46 tee times in Nagawaukee. that means I gotta get up at like 4:30.  AAAAGH!! 

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Detox Saturday DJ and I circumnavigated that little green jewel Fox Lake. We stopped at Town Park . . . .park on the north side to let Gus out and saw a beautiful rain garden surrounding the goose poopy parking lot.  This is something Drexil should have done on their parking lot



 In fact all Columbus parking lots should be surrounded by rain gardens that soak up massive amounts of run off rain instead of costing Columbus tax payers money to process rain water that leaks into the sewer system.



Then we stopped at a drive in in Fox Lake for a bite of food.  DJ gets a BBQ which was pretty much Sloppy Joe.  Mullins in Columbus is MUCH MUCH better.  I had a 1/4 cheeseburger (Mullins does not have 1/4 cheeseburgers - SAD!).

Gus was doing well and people were OF COURSE looking at him and then an older guy, out of the blue, comes over and asks if Gus can have the rest of his burger.  (Gus is like a beautiful woman who gets all sorts of free things from strangers).

We said yes and Gus gulps down a 1/8 burger.  We finish up and I take him over to say thanks and Gus shakes his hand and the man's wife asks if Gus can have a little more and the husband takes her 1/2 of a 1/4 pounder and shows Gus who GRABS it out of his hands and is gulping it down to laughter.

The crowd laughs and I turn to the next table saying this is how we feed Gus and what you YOU have.

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Omega-3 - a $15 billion industry for something that has yet to be proven a good thing.  There have been 79 studies with over 100,000 people and so far "omega-3 consumption has little or no effect on promoting heart health".

FISHY FISH PILLS

I take 2 fish oil pills a day as MY doctor says it makes my blood slipperier and avoids strokes.

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Josh Roselius - the actor that broke an egg for the "This is you brain on drugs" propaganda commercial is 100% for legalizing cannabis "It's healthier then alcohol" he says.

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Another? Star Trek?  YUP - CBS all access will have yet another Star Trek - this one staring Patrick Stewart - YUP - that same one in the OLD Star Trek.  So while Anson Mount (Hell on Wheels) plays Captain Pike if the new old new Star Trek  Patrick Stewart will play Jean Luc Picard (sp?) in the new new Star Trek.

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BTW - Big Brother 20 has been outstanding.  Players that know game theory is making this show outstanding.  STILL - the best pure strategy game on TV.

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I really hate this months horoscope for Aquarius:

"You don't always do well with relationships, but guess what? You are headed straight toward a whole mess of them. They will be uncomfortable, terrifying, nauseating, and chaotic - exactly the qualities you despise in life.

Your little world is about to come tumbling down and you are left standing with nothing but your dignity, if that. Oh well, you are used to making a complete fool of yourself. This month will be no different. "   

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things you overhear

"Time flies when your life is going absolutely nowhere"

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Seems white collage ages woman are fleeing the GOP in droves. 



 Other polling tidbits

5% of American call them selves vegetarians - the same as in 1999.
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10% of men have lied to get out of jury duty while only 4% of woman.  MEANWHILE - I have never ever been ask to be on a jury - NEVER.
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So far there have been no cracks in the blue wave.
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Meanwhile - over 100 psychiatrists signed a letter and presented it to the powers in charge saying then believe Trump is losing his mental facilities.  Even Omarosa, a long time friend for 15 years has been shocked and said listen to a speech from 10 years ago and listen to one now.  Completely different.

He can't even say whole sentences now.  She said "this is NOT Trump being Trump, this is Trump losing his mental stability".   

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Weather - after tomorrow (74) the temps will rise again to the low 80s. Pop up thunderstorms for the work week.  Nothing much happening


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