Health / Brewers / Columbus day? seriously?

No blog yesterday because DJ and I were on a retirement date morning.

What is a retirement date morning?  Get up, go to the clinic for my yearly blood work, Cholesterol and so forth, get flu shots, go to The Jet Room for breakfast and home to for the most exciting part of the day - The Mail.

all went well and the flu shot was easy - no pain at all.  But wait . . NO MAIL?   We get a call about noon from Elweed.  "ROD, IS IT A HOLIDAY?"  Yes it's Columbus day. no mail AND banks are closed.   "WHAT?  THIS IS A TRAVESTY, BANKS ARE CLOSED?"  Yea it totally sucks.

We the next thing to do is wait for the test results to see if I will live.

Sunday I did a Health Bomb (a health bombogenesis).  First eat a package of raisins, then take a probiotic pill since we all know probiotics will not work unless you have prebiotics (the raisins).  Wash it down with yogurt and take a vitamin B or any vitamins you might have laying around.

BAM - a health bombogenesis.

Did it work?

The results are in and I'm fine.  the only TINY worry was Glucose but I have my charts since 2000 and they have been the same for 18 years (a tiny bit higher this time at 146).  My family has always been high on glucose but nobody has ever had diabetes.  My brother is high and was told to keep track of his glucose even though he has never had any symptoms.  The issue is whenever he has a McDonalds meal his glucose drops  . . .so . . . perhaps he need more fast food in his system? 

I do have an issue with my Anon Gap which is low and could mean I have multiple myeloma with symptoms including confusion, constipation, vomiting, and abdominal pain (welcome to Sunday Mornings). 

I also don't have enough GOOD cholesterol but I have very little BAD cholesterol so . . . . . .

Of course the Drs. lied to me like a Supreme Court Judge. He said if I exercise (not exorcise which would be more fun) it will raise my HDL.  NOT.   When I retired I exercised 3 times a week and the results?  NOT ONE BIT OF DIFFERENCE. 

SO - I'm still kicking.

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 On PBS last night and again tonight is a 4 hours show on The Circus.  I watched part one with trepidation. Not a fan of The Circus but it was FASCINATING.  What an amazing thing about America.  Barnum needs to be up there with the great leaders of industry.

But lets talk about elephants for 1 second.  For the most part - once they got to America elephants were treated kindly.  They handlers loved them and took care of them.  HOWEVER, there were bad companies and GETTING the animals was cruel.

When I was on council I would never have allowed the circus to come to Columbus. Especially the one we normally got that was proven HIDEOUSLY cruel to elephants.  But for the most part they were treated "ok" in old time circuses. 

Tonight they start talking about the Baraboo circus, Ringling Brothers.  Barnum has just passed away and Bailey now sees there is no competition but is overlooking 5 brothers living in Baraboo Wisconsin, basically teenagers.

It's really a great show.

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Brewers / Dodgers.  David vs. Goliath.  If the Dodgers do NOT win the World Series the season was a waste and disappointment.  The Brewers are playing with casino money at the moment. 

Dodgers, huge payroll, huge fan base, have been in the playoffs forever.  Brewers, small fan base, tiny payroll, rarely in any playoffs.   America has no clue who the brewers are.  Classic underdogs. 

But - what about next year.  I expect the Brewer team to be much different next year with a new cast of characters.  They can't keep Moustakas, Shaw AND Schoop.   Shaw is cheap and good so he is staying, Moustakas is old and Schoop is REALLY a good player who has never felt comfortable in Milwaukee. 

If it was me I would get rid of Moustakas and keep Schoop in at second.  Not even a 2nd thought.  Power hitting very good fielder at 2B.  I really like Schoop for next year.  He is in his prime. Moustakis is 30 and is on his downhill side of being a MLB player. 

WITH THAT SAID - my Strat-o-matic team will be able to sign Mike Trout to a long term contract meaning I will have Yelich, Trout and Freddie Freeman (1 more year and then he is a free agent).

Check out this slash line against right handed pitchers

Avg / OB / Slugging

Freeman .309 / .385 / .493
Yelich  .321 / .405 / .602
Trout . 318 / .462 / .656
Franco .286 / .325 / .502

Not bad - I could actually bat them in that order.

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Weather - sort of a winter thing going on. A LOT of rain west with only a couple inches coming our way . . . but move the line 50 miles east and we could get 2-4.   Rain chances start about sunset tonight and continue all day tomorrow as The Front goes through.  Cool after that.

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Watched Harry Potter for the first time.  CLICKed it off after an hour.  Didn't take.  Sort of a Divergent knock off.  It might be a hit is SOME circles. 

Looking for comedy's on Amazon Prime?  Check out "Nobodies" and "Forever" - FUNNY 

nuff said - see ya