Tuesday

Latest additions by Will: steps for the deck.

Rainwater collector to water plants with.

Worked from home Monday and all this week. Busy busy. Worked until almost six just to remain slightly organized. Drove C to a school store. I stayed in the car. Then picked up my car at the shop. Oil change, emissions, and new wipers. Black beans and rice for supper. Helped with the dishes.

 

Today M is at the farm. C is at school. I’m here, the three conference calls on the docket. Speaking of dockets, I’m reading Grisham’s The Reckoning.

 

Watched the Braves. Bad news about Soroka. Now the Braves have lost FIVE starting pitchers: Hamels, Hernandez, Chachin, Folty, and Soroka. Plus missed out on Puig. Several other players have missed time due to injury/illness: Camargo, Flowers, d’Arnaud, Albies, Markakis. On 680 the talk was how before social media (& talk radio) teams like the Braves gave young pitchers time to develop. Well documented that it takes some kids time to get their footing: Scherzer, Glavine, Smoltz. Now fans want to give up on a kid. Poor Kyle Wright has only six starts in the majors. 

Good thing Blooper is in midseason form.  

Article: a conversational narcissist constantly turns the conversation toward themselves or their family, and steps away when the conversation is no longer about them. They are generally uninterested in what other people have to say. Sometimes it’s work not to be like this.

 

Signs: (1) the conversation is one-sided (2) they interrupt a lot (3) they don’t stop talking (4) they are not engaged with other people.

 

How to respond: (1) set boundaries (2) respond with empathic conversation (3) don’t take it personally. You can’t change them. These people are not insightful, according to the article.

https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/conversational-narcissist-definition-and-signs?utm_source=Heleo+Newsletters&utm_campaign=4e0ae3df37-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_lift_2020_8_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_85eb2ca8d0-4e0ae3df37-217162269&mc_cid=4e0ae3df37&mc_eid=ae035956a6

 

Living in a post-Christian society.

 

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YOGI BERRA  [SABR Bio] was the only manager to lead the Mets and the Yankees to league championships. Managed NYY 1964 + 1984-85; managed NYM 1972-75. Won NL flag in 1973. Won AL flag in 1964. He led the league in an offensive category only once in his nineteen-year MLB playing career and that was not in his MVP season. He was the AL leader in 1950 in at-bats per strikeout by a wide margin with 49.8. In fact he led the majors that year, also by a wide margin. Won AL MVPs in 1951, 1954 & 1955, in each case by narrow margins. As a child, he and his friends built a baseball diamond near the city dump in St. Louis. One of his childhood friends went on to play in the majors for nine seasons, Joe Garagiola.