By the time this posts I should be off to the SIL’s where thar be the usual turkey and ham and beans and all the other fixin’s. There’s also a gift exchange and a game night. (hope it’s trivia-I do goodly at that) I needn’t remind anyone that if you’re out and about, limit the drinkies to one or zero. Up here in the boonies you can count on roadside checks everywhere all evening. The one that surprised me the most was the 6am one on January 1st that I ran into a few years ago. Them coppers are smart.
To The Game!
Ravens/Texans:
-Does Houston even have a signature win as they head towards the postseason? They beat the Bills by a field goal but that was way back in week 5. Their last few W’s have been vs the dregs that are the Colts, Jags, Cowboys and Fins. Hardly a Killer’s Row there. During that time they’ve also lost to the Jets and Fins.
-If you’ll recall last year, due to a phenomenal draft they closed the talent gap with pretty much every team in the league but Baltimore was not one of them. The latter is a gaudy 12-2 vs the Texans.
-Houston grabbed Diontae Johnson to pick up the slack now that Dell and Metchie aren’t available. They also picked up a ton of shitty attitude in the bargain. From here on in I think he’s just a training camp body unless he starts seeing himself differently. How much has this cost him? Perhaps 40 million? Perhaps. Yikes!
-This is what good teams do: Remember when (weeks 1-9) when you could pass on the Ravens all game long? Their EPA per dropback was 28th in the league during that span. Since then they’ve attacked the problem and have been the very best regarding that same metric. That’s apples-to-apples dramatic improvement.
Have fun digesting!
I have to share this, because it’s been two hours…
Lil’ WCS did something right before they left. She created “party favors” out of toilet paper rolls, various loose stuff like plastic gems, pencil erasers, stuff like that as a personal art project. She mentioned Christmas Eve how she had made something to pass out later, but I admittedly didn’t really hear, or understand what she meant at the time. I promptly forgot.
Then, she’s passing them out to all the grown-ups, who mostly feign excitement or whatnot. It’s then the discussion from the night before clicked. She did this just show how much she loves everyone.
She comes over to me after she’s done, and I thank her for being so nice. She says something like, “no one’s really excited. I know it’s just junk. I wanted to do something to be nice.” I did the same thing when I was around her age, and usually got the same reactions. That didn’t click until I was driving home
She has me just sobbing with how loving and thoughtful that was. I hope the reactions she got didn’t disappoint her, because that would be devastating. She just really wanted to let everyone know she was thinking of them. What a kid.
Aww! She could send one to me, I am a total sucker for kid art.I have a paper mache Billy Goat Gruff my son made in school when he was young. It has three legs and a stub of another, one really long ear and one short one. He was clearly channeling his inner Picasso. It’s erm…conceptual art, not representational, lol, but I will love it until the day I die.
Fuck, it is 80 degrees in here. Opened all the windows and the back door but eventually bit the bullet and turned on the AC.
Do you have a separate water heater or is it central?
Central, it’s one boiler for the whole building and runs off sensors in some of the units. I’m top (3rd) floor which doesn’t sound like a lot, but going up the stairs you can feel the temperature increase. Basically either the people on the ground floor are cold or I boil, and the ground floor people complain more than I do!
I guess I should be grateful for the quality construction that means the building has insulation that is still solid after a century, but also, they could maybe put on a sweater, lol. It’s also not at all cold this week, well over freezing, the heat doesn’t need to be on
Yeah not much you can do about that. If you can turn off individual radiators that would be about it.
Unfortunately the largest one in the dining room is stuck on, but I turned on my summer fan setup to get the outside air circulating and it’s down to a comfortable 76 now.
I want to put a fan assembly in the old transom window in the kitchen. It’s been painted shut for years, along with the old spring and lever assembly for opening and closing it, but I’ve started working on removing the many layers of paint. Long term project though, it’s slow going since I want to keep the good solid wood underneath so can’t just rip out the whole thing
Little by little. Bit by bit. The final restoration will be well worth it.
Time to run off that traditional Christmas dinner.
Lasagna, (pastiche) rolled veal roast, roast patatos, peas, bread, associated cheese, tangerines, assorted nuts, panettone and coffee.
I am happy, luckily and large.
Hope everyone’s day was good.
We should figure out how to play Family Feud on here.
Oh we already did.
Finally finished A Christmas Story.
Would a “Hard Brazilian” be when you place your asshole against a frozen flagpole?
Is the flagpole named Joao?
It is now.
https://substack.com/redirect/5ab1a1f8-673c-496e-9dad-ceb29ac55c15?j=eyJ1IjoiOGIwbGUifQ.93o9nrrYN32Njo-oqXOWjx2ioazIvJGxVqjcK1N1OV4
Dammit
164 minute comedy with one punchline.
Five minutes after their mom takes Lil’ and Lil’er WCS home after five days I become a blubbering mess for an hour.
I TOLD YOU TO PUT THE ONIONS AMMONIA AND SAWDUST AWAY
Haha lookit this guy who cares about his kids, what a sucker!
Good for you, they’ll be glad they have an awesome dad
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/43153655/sources-ex-seahawks-coach-pete-carroll-interest-bears-job
This may make Bearsenscheisse cry hard, too.
12:06 make it two hours
There were a lot of those shared Christmas things when the girls grew up.
Keep doing what you’re doing.
It pays off in the long run.
Dude, I hate to say, it never goes away. When I dropped my kids back at their mom’s after having them for the summer. I never really saw the drive back through PA as I would be balling my eyes out, till I dehydrated too much to cry anymore somewhere near (Stroudsburg I think). And would be severely depressed for about a month, cost me at least on relationship as they couldn’t my depression.
handle my depression, lovely stoned state for me this evening.
Sounds like you need to rip a bowl.
already done my man! able to catch any tasty waves on this day?