So we’re in the home stretch. 2024 is nigh upon us, and I for one am terrified.
Not so much because 2024 promises to be one of the strangest, most contentious and potentially republic-shattering on record.
No, I am terrified because 2024 was not just “The Future” but “The Far Future” when I was growing up. Like, Star Trek was talking about Irish Reunification happening in 2024. That means “someday” is “now” and I’m not ready for that.
I’m not big on New Year’s Resolutions, because 1. I routinely fail to meet my own more modest everyday goals, and 2. January (particularly above the Mason-Dixon Line) is no time for self-improvement. You hunker down, drink and pray you hold out until Spring.
Still, I like to think I have a Growth Mindset, so here are some generalized goals I am working toward in 2024:
1. Turn down the self-loathing by roughly 30%
2. Decouple my identity from my work
3. Find 15 minutes per day to improve my relationship with someone.
4. Find the one-armed man, bring him to justice and clear my name.
Share your goals in the comments
NFL NEWS
-In a stunning yet completely predictable reversal of fortune, it looks like Tommy DeVito’s time as a starter with the Giants is over, at least until another trainer punctures Tyrod Taylor’s other lung. DeVito was benched at halftime of the Giants’ loss to Philly, and although the Giants say no decision has been made on the starter going forward, it’s gonna be Taylor. Brian Daboll is coaching for his job, and the Giants looked almost respectable in the second half. As for Tommy Cutlets, that $10k pizza parlour money is probably looking pretty good right now.
-Trevor Lawrence: partially ded. Lawrence sprained the AC joint in his throwing shoulder, leaving his status up in the air. The jaguars are suddenly in a fight with the Clots and the Texans for the division they had dominated through most of the season.
-Brock Purdy: did not get Jimmy Garoppolo’d on Christmas Day as I had predicted. Instead, he got Nathan Peterman’d. I’m not sure that’s any better.
-Vikings tight end TJ Hockenson: very ded. Hockenson tore his ACL and MCL this weekend. Surgery to be scheduled, and there is no return timeline yet, but expect it to be lengthy.
January always brings the “resolves” to the gym and out running on the road. But as the sun always rises, by mid February it’s back to the usual suspects.
Resolvers.
Fuckin auto correct.
And fuckin WordPress inability to edit fuckin auto correct.
Damned my OCD!
‘Hapsburgs To Revolutionaries’,
/oil on canvas
(1848)
That’s some good parenting there
It’s no coincidence that the kids are wearing Chiefs colors.
Watching ‘Letterkenny’ and debating the morality of getting on the Christian dating app they keep advertising and not telling any of them I’m married.
Going to the Letter Kenny comedy show in February with Mrs GTD. Was one of her gifts to me for Xmas
I can’t help but laugh that the Detroit Pistons just set a record for losing 27 games in a row and their record so far this season is *still* better than Hue Jackson’s first two years in Cleveland.
I know I’m 100 years late to this stuff, as usual, but these mash-ups are hot shit. Old B.B. King mixed with old Wu-Tang Clan and the whole thing sounds contemporary. Kewl!
https://youtu.be/s2EyTZfbIco?si=BDOX8URAjC2vpUjZ
Anyone have any interest(ing gambling tips they can lay on me so that I might lay a semi-intelligent parlay and thereby maintain some semblance of interest) in the 9:00 bowl game?
The spread started at Kansas -11.5 and it’s down to -8.
I say you take Kansas minus the points. UNLV is not that good.
aye-aye!
Please tell me you placed the bet.
I did! With the over. VERY low stakes, but enough to futz around on Premier League all day (and give most of it back 🤓), and try a fun parlay on the rest of day’s footed ball.
It is interesting watching this documentary to see all the things that White did on a routine basis that would get him thrown out of a game in the first quarter today. Nothing dirty, just that the rules of the game have changed so much, especially when it comes to hitting the QB.
There are some outstanding haircuts going on here, too.
I’m a bit surprised that Lawrence Taylor’s attempts to break a qb’s arm in order to strip him of the ball was not a penalty back in the day.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Thing is, by all accounts, in his rookie year he was a (drug-free) dick from Deer Salt Lick, North Calacky but was playing the game at a speed that no one had ever seen before.
Is Deer Salt Lick near Lower Elk Hump?
Depends how late in the Ungulate Orgy it is.
Same thing happens if you watch a montage of Scott Stevens’ best hits in the NHL. All suspension-worthy today.
This is true. Stevens probably would be arrested today.
This seems to be true in almost every sport, or every contact sport at least.
Once I get a job again, I’m going to try and budget for retiring at 50. Challenging since you can’t withdrawal from retirement accounts without penalty until 59 1/2
I’m trying the same thing, but there’s a serious flaw in the plan in that I am 54.
Same. I’m realistically aiming for 65, but may go sooner if BIDENOMICS KEEPS ROCKIN
THANKS JOE BIDEN!!!
I mean if you invented an elixir that could de-age you by four years you would probably have little trouble with the financial side of your retirement plan.
If only I knew someone with a laboratory inside of a volcano lair…
I’ve got 4 months to retire at 50 but think I’m gonna need more time to get more money. Unless one or more of yinz is willing to give me some money
That was the point of DFOCon Vegas!
To send me money? If so, I never got it
Gonna start with a Dry January (no really stop laughing) and try to keep it going for a while longer; really focus on weight loss without using New Drugs That You Can Never Stop Taking. Do whatever I can to make sure the White House stays the Biden residence.
I’m going to do only slightly soggy Jan, nawt gonna turn down free vintage champagne or similar
Damp January? Mildly moist January?
“Mildly what January?”
-B. Shapiro
Dehydrated January.
Although alcohol supposedly dehydrates you, so that probably won’t work.
Gonna have a couple of drinks and worksh…Goddammit!!!!.
Having done Dry January in the past I can say that you will drop weight doing that. Alcohol, while the solution to and cause of all of life’s problems, is really good at adding weight that one does not need.
Annoyingly, this works way better for men than women
FINALLY white men get an advantage!
I was toying with the idea of something a little different: trying to string together at least one seven-day stretch of sobriety per month.
My Resolutions this year are:
-Shoot a round in the 90-95 range.
-Shoot well enough consistently to lower my Handicap Index into the 20s
-Shoot an adult film short with my lady friend
“I can give you tips on filming an adult short”
-B. Favre
There it is!
We also would have accepted “Horatio Cornblower”.
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You should try to combine all three and shoot a 69.
Watching a 30-for-30 on Reggie White. On the one hand he was a religious bigot who didn’t think gays should have rights, but on the other had he handed out footballs and packages of food to people in Philadelphia, so who’s to say whether he’s good or bad.
Would you say he was a land of contrasts?
I’d say that he set an example that many so-called Christians who seem to base their theology, (and most of their identity), on persecuting minority groups should follow, in that he died early.
What do I think about a guy that hates gays and hands food out to poor folks? I’m thinking he was a typically shitty performative Christian that didn’t have the intelligence necessary to question the hipocrisy of his words vs his actions.
coulda just said Christian
Nope. My aunt that passed away, an old basketball coach, a friend of my wife, the manager of a grocery store that I deal with-they all identify as Christians and they are fantastic, honest folks that don’t push their beliefs on anyone. They are out there and I have to give them credit.
Ok, maybe in Canada.
I have a friend who is a minister, (no, shut up, I really do), and he’s a great guy. Somehow manages to live his faith and build up the people around him without having to tear someone else down. Seems pretty easy, too.
It’s almost like most humans aren’t fully good or bad. And the contrapositive, anyone who is fully good or bad isn’t human
Counterpoint: Donald Trump, Rudolph Hoss, Harold Ballard, Henry Kissinger, Pol Pot, David Gettleman, Robert Moses, Urban Meyer-I could go on.
What evidence do you have that they’re human?
You’re gonna have to define ‘human’ or ‘humanity’ for me.
My definition is basically tautalogical in this situation. I would say the presence of at least one redeeming quality and at least one flaw
This has all the earmarks of a circle jerk argument which I’m not the least bit interested in pursuing.
I mean, there’s not really less philosophical/literary way to define it without extensive tissue samples and lab time, and even then no guarantees 🤷
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w65aTy-XGDE
[lays -110 odds that Hippo calls Rice University “Asian Staple’]
PSU
(Paddy Starch University)
Beans’ White Neighbor?
Better than what Bill Parcells would have come up with.