If You Love Him . . . Let Him Go

Whole lot of grief counseling going on today in Packer-land. Just like Emmit Smith, Joe Montana, & Jerry Rice, Broadway Brett Favre will finish his career somewhere NOT where it started. All of a sudden sports fans are faced with the realities of professional sports. It's a business.

Personally I have been looking forward to the Packers without Brett since his retirement and lately if you asked me my feelings I would be flip flopping day to day with thoughts making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

It all depended on my mood. My main thought was to not get attached to either side. It's not worth the effort, nothing I can do, go with the flow.

I wish Brett all the luck in the world. The Jets last year were 4-12 with the 7th worst offense in the League. There offensive line was one of the worst and Brett will be on his back with 1000 pound linemen on top of him way way way more then in the past 10 years.

He was sacked 19 times last year. The Jet's QB was sacked 53 times. So you have a very immobile QB in a front line that resembles a sieve. Sad.

Meanwhile the Packers just look dang good with a very mobile QB and a dominating front line, a very good running game and one of the best WR's in the league (Jennings) and one of the best Tight Ends (Lee - according to Football Outsiders) and a defense that can hold it's own.

Take a few minutes to grieve but we must move on, Brett is happy, the Packers are happy.
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That's right ladies and germs - I have collected the ingredients for Depp elicious, a Double Chocolat Stout from Grinder's Island Brewery.

What in this brew you ask?

The main ingredient is 2.5 pounds of Maris Otter Pale Malt, a winter barley, considered by many to be the best Pale Ale malt available. It is still floor-malted, a labor intensive process in which the barley is turned by hand on large floors.

add to the mash

3/4 pound of Chocolate Malt
1/4 pound of Crystal 40L
1/8 pound of Roasted Barley
1/8 pound of Black Patent Malt
5 pounds of Dark Extract
1 oz of unsweetened Cocoa
1 oz of Galena Hops
and processing all of this will be British Ale 1098 yeast, about 10 billion to begin with.


It will be done 2 months after it is brewed so we're looking at late October, early November, just when we all need a pick me up for the late fall blues.
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On this day in in 1947 a balsa wood raft named Kon-Tiki completed a 4,300 mile ocean journey. I'm very familiar with this as I read the book many many years ago. It made a pretty good impression on me and MAYBE was the catalyst for my many solo adventures.

The 101 day journey was from Peru to Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelago, near Tahiti. The explorers wanted to prove a theory that prehistoric South Americans could have colonized the Polynesian islands by drifting on ocean currents.

I don't know why this book has stuck with me for so many years. I saw a car about a month ago with Kon-Tiki as it's license plate and I really wanted to honk and give it the thumbs up but . . . that would have looked stupid.

Sometimes it's the weirdest tiny things that can shape your life.
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In 1928 the American dollar shrank. Yup - it became 1/3 smaller. AND that was not all! The dinky dollar was part of a veritable fleet of smaller bills from $1 to $10,000. Even a brand new $2 bill was created.

Then a year later they shrank the bill another 25%. HOW BIG WERE THEY TO BEGIN WITH!!

Let's figure it out!

Right now a dollar is 6 inches long! (hmmm, I never measured a dollar before, IF I ever have to measure something I have a 6 inch measure r . . . GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER)

so - it was 25% larger. You can not just multiply it by 25%. Doesn't work that way. Look at it this way, it is 3/4 the original size so you have to take the inverse, 4/3 which is you have to multiply the 6 inches by 4/3 (1.33) which makes it a little less then 8 inches.

THEN 80 years agotoday they decreased the size of the 8 inch bill be 33% or 2/3rds. Ttake the inverse which is 3/2 (1.50) and the original dollar bill was a foot long. Think of the size of the billfolds they had back then!!! What about the ATMs. They had to have huge slots!

I don't know how we managed to evolve from those times. I bet their credit cards were twice as big too! SUCK!!
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Later
Rod