Baseball, football, and fatbergs

• Fish, for sport only, not for meat. Fish meat is practically a vegetable.

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Seems no one noticed I blogged yesterday  LOL   Take a few days off and BAM - I'm forgotten.

The Cleveland Indians won their 20th straight last night tying the 2002 Money Ball Oakland As, the team that changed baseball (well, not really, Bill James changed baseball and it's STILL stuck in the past, for instance, bunting).

But the LA Dodgers won.  Remember how good they were?  If not for a 1-0 win they would have lost 17 in a row.

Then there are the Brewers who used 7 pitchers last night to won.  There are some people that believe this should really be the norm.  Starting pitchers always pitch worse the 3rd time through a rotation so why pitch a pitcher more then 3 innings.

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Next year all teams will play on opening day and it will be the earliest opening day ever  March 29th.

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In the NFL - there were 3 games decided my 7 points of less.  The most lopsided group of games since 1973 (the year I graduated High School - I think I graduated - they tell me I was at the graduation but I don't remember  it at all)


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So far 16 Republicans are retiring. Remember what I said so long ago?  As soon as one party holds the top office, that party from governors on up start to lose power. 100% of the time.
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Hillary has a new book out about the past election.  Good Lord get over it.  yea yea the liberals will take over the political arena coming up . . . . . if they actually have some sort of vision besides showing how inept the GOP is at governing.   The blue tsunami is on the horizon if they don't shoot their selves in the foot again.

The interesting thing with the book will be how long people listen to the audio book.   George W Bush's book was 20.2 hours of listening and the average listener lasted 12 hours. Clinton's "Hard Choices"  was a 27 hour "listen" but on average the listener only listened to 8.4 hours.

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38% of professionals believe the use of AI and robots will lead to more unemployment.  With that said - DJ and I have been binging on Outlander and I commented on how many candles are in use and there must be a HUGE candle manufacturing operation.  I bet candle makers hated to see the light bulb.   JOBS JOBS JOBS!  They come they go.  Deal with it.

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Columbus Water & Light has two teams in Florida helping out working 16 hour days.  89 degrees with 72 degree dew point  . . . and no electricity for air conditioning.

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London has a 130 ton fatberg.  What is a fatberg?  When you flush oil and grease down your sink it solidifies long before it reaches waste water facilities.  THEN people through napkins and other paper products that do not disintegrate into their toilets and that stuff catches the grease and oil. That is a fatberg and it acts like a giant 130 ton plug.

Remember how toilet paper used to be different colors? They found that the dye made it so the toilet paper did not disintegrate.  DON'T THROW non-crap (and I say that literally) into the toilet unless you want a huge bill at some point.

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And on that subject - for $100 Olive Garden is offering unlimited pasta, soup, salad, and breadsticks for 2 months.  They tried this last year and sold 22,000 passes in their first 1 second.

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OH - I suppose I need to mention this.  Seems to be a big hoopla about the Popcorn Cart and how the people in charge want to donate our popcorn cart to the city. WELL, someone who runs "Friends of the Popcorn Cart" was against this idea because the "city" might just sell it to help fund the budget.

SERIOUSLY?  are you on crack?  That has to be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard (actually not really close to THE stupidest thing but you get the idea . . . I think the stupidest thing was blaming Obama for letting botching the Hurricane Katrina survivors).

ANYWAY - it seems the "friends" have no issues with a historical popcorn cart located in a bar where beer can be spilled on it or the back of a store where no one sees it.  No issues there but in a secure location so many people can view it on a daily basis, THAT is an issue?

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         Nuff said



 

Well . . .hello!

There is only one thing I hate more then lying. 

Skim milk, which is water that is lying about being milk. 

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We were catching up on Steven Colbert when he had Russia Week.  He traveled to Russia to talk to the people there about Americans and so forth.  Colbert was invited to be on the State sponsored late night comedy talk show and one of of the things they did was take shots of vodka.

Obviously not something you can do in America on a talk show.  ANYWAY - they took shots and then ate a baby pickle.  It's a thing I guess.  Shots of vodka and a pickle.  

Well, I had to try that. Perhaps that was the best way to have vodka and since I had the summer of vodka last summer and we tried like 8 different kinds (there really is a big difference in vodkas) why not try it. 

So, last night I had a shot and a pickle and was amazed.  It tasted exactly like a shot of vodka . . AND A PICKLE.  No magic. At least it took away the taste of the vodka which to me is not that wonderful at all.  I'll take a shot of Fireball before vodka.   Fireball takes me back to junior high when I got in big trouble for selling tooth picks soaked in cinnamon extract.  It was a big thing in junior high. 

Probably why when I had my first few shots of Fireball a few years ago I got this warm fuzzy feeling. 

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The Orville  an adult Star Trek spoof is wonderful and is getting rave reviews from everybody that is NOT a critic. Pure, simple entertainment that the IMDB database gives in a 7.7 and Rotten Tomatoes has 87% of the people who watched it love it.

https://youtu.be/6KuTf-2dYkY

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Went to a Subaru celebration last night highlighting the Crosstrek which we are looking into.  We were given a Leatherman which is a pretty cool tool . . . but don't look up Leatherman on your computer at work . . .. 

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The FBI National Instant Criminal Background Checks for firearm sales will be down 11 percent compared to last year.  Why?  Nobody is buying guns.  Gun sales are down drastically since Donald was elected.  Not a surprise.  The gun industry HATE Republican presidents.  Sales ZOOM with a Democrat in office and drop off a cliff with Republicans.

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I want to invest in lithium but have no idea how.  $750 BILLION in new lithium mines are being proposed to keep up with demand.

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You know that saying about 100 year floods and so forth?  Well, that does not mean a flood of that magnitude will happen once every 100 years.  It means each year there is a 1 in 100 change you will get that size of a flood.

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I had a flurry of golf outings to end the summer and we played The Meadows in Waunakee Sunday.  baaaa   102. The greens were crazy fast and the holes were in stupid places.  We had one guy putt up hill and it curved around the hole and came in from the back side.   Another guy putted 4 times and the ball would not stay near the hole and would roll back.

Sadly putting was not why I had a 102.   We did vote to move our league from Door Creek and their rotten over priced slow food to The Oaks.  So if anyone wants to play The Oaks next year in a relaxed league where you can play with whom ever you want to each week. We have openings.  It's more just golf and a league as a by product.

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Went 1-1 in Fanduel.  Had Rodgers and Nelson and seeing the Packers scored 0 points at half time was scary.  I was one running back away from placing in both tournaments.

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Nobody is mentioning the 8.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico.

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Then there is Irma.

When Andrew hit St. John USVI I had a friend that was a tree house builder living there. It was chaos and for 3 weeks and he and all members of his family carried a gun and lived inside a make shift fort with other Americans. The US Navy did not get there for 2 weeks to rescue them.  The island is now completely wipe out.

90% of the trees have been defoliated and there are basically no standing buildings. No runnign water and no electricity. DJ and I had our poker paid for honeymoon on St. John (well, a few years after were married)

 

  St. Thomas is defoliated also from the images I saw.  So so sad.

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Green Bay plays Atlanta this Sunday night. Many are saying the Super Bowl will have either Green Bay OR Seattle.   Green Bay is 2.5 point dog.

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Its freaking loud at my house.  3 homes being build near us with things hammering, trucks beeping and so forth.  As bad as a few summers ago when they build Enerpac hill behind us.  There was never a time for an entire summer where there were not at least 3 trucks dumping dirt.  The most irritating summer ever.

Nuff Siad.   

  

Sound Proof, DACA, Golf, dish washers

Capitalism: God's way of determining who is smart, 

and who is poor. 

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So with the money we saved on NOT getting the ultra sweet refrigerator we purchased a new dishwasher.  A Bosch which advertises 44Db for noise.  Most dishwasher companies advertise how quiet they are but here is the BIG difference.

All other companies install their appliance into a faux counter and then measure how loud that are.  HOWEVER - Bosch does it differently.  The put their washer in the middle of an empty room and measure it.  THEN when you installed the washer it's actually MUCH quieter.

I can stand next to ours and literally cannot hear it run.  PLUS - it's an Energy Star so we can get $25 big ones back from Columbus Water and Light.  The frig is not Energy Star.

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There seems to be trouble brewing in CA if you are a wine drinker. There are not enough workers to pick grapes.  Now with cannabis about to become legal there is more of a problem finding enough workers.  Good thing the GOP want to deport 800,000 tax paying Dreamers so America can be whiter.  California has 200,000 DACAs. THAT won't help the problem.

Oddly Democrats are going after 14 GOP congressional candidates. DACA might come up in the conversation.

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The New York Jets are 1000-1 odds to win the Super Bowl. O/U for the Jets is 3.5 wins.

But if you want a sure thing, the Golden State Warriors are 1000-1 to make the playoffs.

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Shot a 94 at the Oaks and was feeling good until I saw that The Oaks is actually an easier course then Door Creek if teeing off from the White tees.  To be closer we would need to tee off from the woman's  Green tees.

The Oaks from the WHITES is rated at 67.4 while Door Creek is 68.9 so MEN should tee off from the Blue tees at 69.2 to be closer.   Our league is considering moving to The Oaks because the food at Door Creek is overpriced and not that good at all.  $9 for a frozen hamburger patty? (they do cook it).

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OH - our government has canceled all the financial benefits for wind farms and solar farms that are being built.  Coal is the future you know.

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This weekend we traveled to Kewaunee  because my brother is building a sound proof recording studio and since I have never build a sound proof room I was fascinated.  He needs it because his wife and he (him?) narrate books (like books on tape) and you need NO SOUND when recording.

The first thing I noticed was he was drunk when he started to put it up because all the walls are at angles.  Seems you don't want square as sound will bounce around (or that was the excuse he told me).

Then looking closer I saw the particulars. Double dry wall on the inside because mass is one of the most important things but wait - there is more.

The dry wall is attached to 2x6s(?) HOWEVER, those do not touch the outside dry wall as it would carry sound.  So there is another set of 2x6s that hold the outside dry wall and those never touch anything on the inside.

Then carpeting will be attached to all walls inside.   Pretty darn cool.  

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Gus does not like this "winter" thing he keeps hearing about.  How much colder can it get he says

Here is one thing I should mention because it was so damn funny.

AS A DOG he likes to rummage through the laundry.  Well, he found some underwear when we were going to bed and was chewing on it with glee.  We thought, let the monster chew as he is happy.

Well, after about 5 minutes he was asleep and when I reached down to take it away . . . .HE WAS WEARING IT!!   Seriously, somehow he wrapped it around himself and was inside my underwear and was asleep.

DOGS!!!!!!!   You never know what they are thinking.