Saturday Night Off-season Open Thread 2025-5

I don’t know why the phrase, “Omigod you’re going to make me watch Italian cinema!” pops into my head right now.

God Bless You, 2Pack! And God bless those gorgeous Italian ladies…

So, aside from insanely hot Europeans, what is there to talk about?

Current Events

This week culminated with Trump telling the Ukrainian president that he’s got no cards and he should be kissing his ass for supplying Ukraine with weapons. I mean, he’s not wrong that Ukraine has very few cards, if any, to play and that they’re pretty much depending on US help to hold off Russia, but that probably could and should have been done behind closed doors instead of in a public meeting.

I’m guessing that there’s political posturing and then Ukraine will give us minerals and give away territory because if they don’t, Trump will make sure Russia controls ALL of Ukraine. Stay tuned.

( that’s more of a cooch slap than a butt slap)

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Sports Update

The golf tournaments from last week proved profitable! I got a closest to the pin in one tournament and won $55. In the other tournament, I finished in the money and got $22.

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Goals Update

Since today is the first day of March, I’m going to take advantage and provide the two-month update on where I am:

GOLF GOALS: Lower my Handicap Index to less than 21, Shoot an 18 hole score of 89 or better, Win a tournament, and finish in the top three of my club championship.

UPDATE: My Handicap Index started the year at 26.7. It is currently at 26.7 after going down all the way to 26.6. I came really close to 89 last week! I got a 91 but that included a Snowman on the 18th hole. 89 was definitely within reach! In that same tournament, I finished third overall. Again, I was VERY close!

FITNESS GOALS: Do one NFL Combine Bench Press Rep (235 lbs), Get a PR of 300 in Squat, and run 2 miles in less than 23 minutes (Army standard for my age).

UPDATE: My first opportunity to get new PRs will come in March.

WORK GOALS: Get 5 non-performers to either quit, retire, or transfer, Get 3 mentees promoted, and institute a company-wide cost-saving measure.

UPDATE: 2 non-performers are gone and 1 mentee got her promotion. The cost-saving measure is in the process of being implemented. I won’t claim it yet.

INTELLECTUAL GOALS: Read 5 Christopher Moore books, create a 7 episode minimum series of fiction, and do a creative visual project.

UPDATE: I read The Stupidest Angel, Lamb, and the three books on the Vampires in San Francisco series (Bloodsucking Fiends, You Suck, and Bite Me). I’m currently reading Noir. Y’all are reading the fiction series every Wednesday. I am in the process of getting a lunch scheduled with Brick to go over our visual project.

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In this space, I will tell you what I’m drinking as I type this post. Today’s drink is: Earl Grey tea with French Vanilla creamer. Yes, I’m feeling quite Euro today.

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Your weekly Psych gif:

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Your weekly hot girl pic:

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Your weekly music video:

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One last thing:

Seriously, every time I see this, I start laughing. I may continue posting it every week. Hat tip to Brocky: