Thursday, August 29, 2019

Life in the Jungle

 Work has been so hectic I was reminded of the time Tarzan came home after a rough day, and uncharacteristically asked Jane to fix him a martini. Jane replied “Tarzan! What’s the matter?” Tarzan looked at her and replied “Jane, it’s a jungle out there!”
 
You know things are bad in this country when great jokes like that are now referred to as Dad Jokes.
 
Some UGA fans are finding Vandy tickets so expensive on the secondary market, that it’s cheaper to buy Vandy season tickets. Looks like Vandy also plays LSU at home. Also UNLV, Northern Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, and East Tennessee. Not much of an enticing schedule. If Ceil and I went to Nashville for the weekend I’m not sure I’d want to go to one of those other games. Once in a blue moon my feet will tingle and I get worried, but usually it’s because I was sitting weird.
 
Monday afternoon work got crazy, and I didn’t leave until 6:45. Something I’d been working on for two months got messed up. Now I’m in a pickle. Plus two other emergencies. Then rain on the way home. Everyone was driving crazy and pulling out in front of other people on the wet pavement. Had to blow by horn at a pickup crossing the center line. Had to stop by Kroger.

Made from scratch supper by Ceil. Hand-breaded chicken tacos on homemade corn meal tortilla shells, with cilantro rice and homemade refried beans, freshly made salsa, and guacamole. For dessert made from scratch banana pudding (ok, the vanilla wafers were store bought).

M was off rock climbing. Anna ate supper with us. She turned on the MTV video music awards to see Taylor Swift’s opening song. Later I notices the MTV VMAs were broadcast on like ten different networks. Not much on TV. Watched David Fehrety interview John McEnroe. Found the Braves replay on YouTube TV but didn’t like the announcers.
 
Cashed in an Amazon gift card to buy a new generation Apple TV, so we can dump cable – and watch Thursday night’s GT/Clemson game on the new ACC Network. Hearing some GT fans saying “upset alert!” They will be wrong.  
 
Braves/Jays: didn’t see the Donaldson ovations but heard about them. Very good. Similar to when Albert Pujols returned to St. Louis. Missed most of the game. I did see Acuna’s two outfield assists. He probably wouldn’t smile so much if his buddy Albies wasn’t right in front of him at second base pointing to him and egging him on. Freddie said the team needed to start hitting again.   
 
Tuesday: shouldn’t have, but I stopped for pizza on the way home. Wasn’t even that good. Gotta stop that. Hitting the workouts starting next week.
 
C was at her Tuesday night ministry and Anna was at Ponce City Market. I checked on the Braves, flipped over to Seinfeld (George & Lupe’), then watched two old episodes of Holy Holy. Love that show. Tried a Crackle TV show starring Rob Riggle, but turned it off after the opening credits. Finished with the Braves.
 
When I was halfway to work Wednesday morning I felt something under my shirt, biting me. Need to take it off, turn it inside out, and shake it out. Later I went over to the warehouse we’re moving out of, to pick up some items. As we arrived they were taking down the big Ryerson signs on the outside. Leftover Mexican for lunch.

Wednesday we received the new Apple TV 4K from Amazon. Took us a while to get it all hooked up but now we are ready to go. Before we wouldn’t have been able to watch tonight’s GT/Clemson game on the ACC Network. Now we can cut out cable, save $80 per month while still getting all the same channels we had before – except Hallmark Channel. But we’ll have options for that.
 
Ceil cooked black beans and rice. Anna and M ate with us. M was telling us about his classes at Georgia State. Anna has a lead on a job. After sup we kept setting up the TV. M and A ran an errand.
 
Friday we’re all bringing in food to celebrate the start of football. Next Thursday and Friday work is having a fund-raiser, selling hot dog lunches.  
 
My neighbor here at work has a cruise booked that embarks from Miami on Labor Day. She’s been glued to the weather radar, charting where the tropical storm will be. They hope to drive down on Saturday. In a related story, a huge container ship that hadn’t been heard from for nine years mysteriously reappeared in the Far East.
 
 
Coming attractions:
8.30 F GT Clemson recap
8.31 S restaurant month recap
9.01 S September bobbleheads
9.02 M GT predictions
9.03 T UGA predictions
9.04 W Clemson predictions
9.05 T recaps
9.06 F New Jersey
9.07 S Luke in the house
9.08 S NFL by the numbers
 
RICK RHODEN  [SABR Bio] a member of the 1979 WS Champion “We are Family” Pittsburgh Pirates, who  was the first player at his position to win three consecutive Silver Slugger awards. Hurled just one game in 1979 for PIT before injuries sidelined him the rest of the season. Three straight SS won as pitcher 1984-1986. A contemporary of Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders, he was one of the 20th century’s greatest two-sport athletes. After his solid 16-year MLB career, Rhoden dominated the celebrity golf tournament circuit, earning over $2M on the links while winning the prestigious American Century Golf Classic a record 8 times. In the opening credits of the 1988 movie “Big”, character Josh Baskin pretends to be him, playing at the time for the Yankees. Watch “Rhoden” get taken deep starting at the 1:35 mark of this short YouTube video clip here.

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