Tuesday, November 03, 2020

Election Day 2020


Yesterday would have been Anna's friend's first wedding anniversary.
 

Saw a Halloween costume online, where the dad was Jimmy Doogan from “A League of Their Own” in a baseball uniform and drinking a beer, and his three young daughters wore Rockford Peaches uniforms. On Halloween the first big group was walking down the street, so I went inside to get the candy. By the time I came out they had passed. I made sure to get them as they walked back up the street. 

For all players with more than seven punts, UGA’s Jake Camarda leads the nation. Clemson’s Will Spiers is third and Tech’s Pressley Harvin fourth. 

#..avg..net.punts.long

1. 50.4 47.9 17 64 Jake Camarda UGA

3. 47.8 42.9 24 64 Will Spiers Clemson

4. 47.7 45.0 36 70 Pressley Harvin GT   

Will be tough for GA to beat FL. We’ll see if many Florida players will be suspended. UGA’s best defender is in the hospital after an automobile accident and will miss several games.

Another fight Sunday in the NFL game. Hard to get interested. I was only checking on how Colts kicker Rodrigo Blankenship did. The Colts won easily, but Hot Rod missed two kicks. 

TV: all the channels we get these days are crazy. When we had cable we had all those channels and we had old shows on a couple of stations, old Johnny Carson reruns, several Hallmark Channels, Seinfeld, Gilmore Girls, Duck Dynasty, and other shows almost in constant rotation. Lots of sports channels.

Ceil watches art shows I don’t know how, maybe YouTube or on TV. She is always working on an art project her kids should do.   

Now we have Hulu and you can watch almost any show whenever you want. Just search for the show and there it is, with a list of the different episodes. Reminds you of shows you were already watching. We also have a special Hallmark series of networks, YouTube TV has the Braves behind the scenes and other stations, Amazon TV and Netflix. Movies movies movies. If you come home and miss the start of a show, you can click and watch from the beginning.

Saturday afternoon when the power went out I went outside to rake. At 6:30 when I finished, I came inside and picked up watching the Tech game from when the power had gone off. Watched it until 8 pm when Ceil’s movie came on. Finished watching the Tech game Sunday afternoon because I’d rather watch that NFL. Sunday C went to Kroger so we watched her 5 pm from 6:30-7:30 then went back to live TV. Like you this weekend others her having problems with cable. I’m liking Hulu for all the sports, but might have to switch to Disney to watch Hamilton. 

Sunday I could’ve watched Bama vs Miss State or Mizzou@Florida if I’d wanted. I never really saw the Florida/Missouri melee. Looking forward to hearing what penalties will be accessed. Then the coach wore a Darth Vader costume to the postgame press conference. Might not have been the best time.

Monday: left work shortly after five. Drove straight home. Arrived at dusk. No small group. Ceil cooked beef tips and rice, one of her standbys. Not too much else. Was worn out. Hard to do much else. Had a hard time sleeping last night.

Cruddy day. So much going on. Busy at work. Bills. Projects. People that don’t understand. Communication failures. Unrealistic expectations. The unrest and division in our country. Health issues. Cars falling apart. Trying to organize meetings with people with busy schedules - but I’m not going to make them feel guilty for already having plans, for things beyond their control.   

Yet so much to be thankful for. Life. Yesterday would’ve been the first wedding anniversary for Anna’s classmate and her husband, who were killed when a tree fell on their house last week.

The Dodgers won their first World Series since 1988. It only took having the highest payroll for the past eight years in a row, two World Series losses, a 60 game regular season – and the team with the fourth lowest payroll in baseball took them to six games. The Braves had a payroll half that of the Dodgers, lost 80% of their starting rotation, had their best player playing hurt, and still came within one game of a World Series birth.

Interesting how people on each side of the political spectrum seem to be divided by profession. So many of the most outspoken political pundits I know don’t work in business. Lots of teachers and some ministers and in the public sector, that have never been responsible to show a profit in order to keep their job. So many earn their money from the support of other people, or from the government, as opposed to making a living working for a business big or small, predicated on servicing and treating customers well to earn continued sales and business. And so many fewer of those in business are not as outspoken, perhaps for those same reasons. But just because the business people aren’t screaming from the rooftops, it doesn’t mean they aren’t just as passionate about their beliefs and viewpoints.

So many businesses are boarding up their storefronts, afraid of riots should Trump win reelection. As Rob Dreher writes, the US has become afraid of the left.    

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theamericanconservative.com_dreher_riots-2Delection-2Dan-2Damerica-2Dafraid-2Dof-2Dits-2Dleft_&d=DwIFAg&c=UXihhqr7vvdA-hrKyTiC1Q&r=wMWwaEbn9nr4zXI4p6CDP7FGwn1DrBd77MJElrWsP6U&m=m2gk5Ynpgs4xqKLM5quqvpZzDGrHuA1hc3n0YMZloEk&s=uZI7NqkvEr_J-tXrCC3A5E3mT70UW2KK7JVTaTVPhp4&e=

Why doesn’t the media report about all the black children being killed in drive by shootings? Much more than the small handful killed by the police, most often for resisting arrest while brandishing a lethal weapon.

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