I just got a call that one of my longtime golf buddies is coming home from the hospital to enter Hospice care. He's been fighting esophageal cancer for several years and went to the hospital yesterday with pneumonia. One of the nicest, smartest guys I know. Cancer gives no fucks. He will be the first of our group to go and this will leave a huge hole. I'm trying to get a little work done before the holiday but I might as well go home. Fuck Cancer
I had a temporal artery biopsy Tuesday and I'm scheduled to see a rheumatologist mid-July. I've been on prednisone again since the 5th of June. I am supposed to get the biopsy results next Tuesday. The biopsy was done because I had a couple of blurred vision episodes. Overall, I'm functioning pretty well. We traveled to the Keys for our Anniversary and another wedding in JAX without too much discomfort. So far so good.
It's a complete and total shitshow, but you already knew that. I really had high hopes that Sherman would restore some sanity to the FO when he bought the team. He has not and now he is asking the KC metro to fund his new stadium dreams with this roster. I've been a fan too long to change it now but god damn if I don't think about it. Name a bandwagon that I should jump on.
Salvy should have been traded a couple years ago. He might be the only player they have that might bring a barely respectable return.
Word is that there is a slim chance he will return but I can’t see it. There isn’t a program anywhere that couldn’t use him and if he wants any post season play, it will have to be elsewhere.
I heard a multi engine prop plane yesterday and ran outside to see if it was Doc the B-29. It wasn’t but I couldn’t identify it. AN-12BK from Ukraine Air Alliance says Flightradar24. Going from DC to San Bernardino. Went to wiki and after reading about it I’m surprised it didn’t fall on my house. Damn if there haven’t been a lot of them that crashed over the last 60 years. Even if you discount the ones that crashed after an Afghan Stinger there have been a lot. Probably not coincidental that the majority had Russian pilots. I’m curious what this one is doing stateside.
Today's Blossom had a very favorable set of letters. I scored 347 with a longest word of 13. For shits and grins I looked at the all words list and replayed the game using the longest words and the words that used all the letters. That score was 447 so you weren't far off with your selections.
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I stepped on a cricket and a parasitic worm started to crawl out of it's ass. By the time I fetched my phone it was out and squirming. Google tells me many crickets , grasshoppers and Mantii are afflicted. The internet blew up a couple weeks ago with videos of these so I thought it was cool to witness it first hand.
Clamp an electric drill in a vise and chuck up a piece of metal close to the proper OD. Turn it on and use a file or dremel to turn the little end. Poor man’s lathe.
Wife was putting stuff under the deck before the big rain hits us and says we have a rat snake taking refuge under the mower deck. I’ll try and get a picture if I remember after the rain stops. @deadshank it’s raining like nobodies business in Strong City. Is Missus Shank there? Wife and I were there for the rodeo parade but left before it started because of the downpour.