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Five and Oh!

Sports

Okay, so the Tigers are down 0-2 against the Texas Rangers.  What a stupid name, “Rangers.”  But I digress…

The Lions however, played its first game in over 10 years on Monday Night Football last night and beat da Bears 24-13 in front of the largest crowd ever at Ford Field.  The crowd was so loud that the Bears had a record number of false start penalties because they just couldn’t hear the count.

The Lions are 5-0 for the first time since 1956.  I was 5.  Who are these guys and what have they done with my Lions?  Where is Wayne Fontes and his hideous yet hilarious play calling?  Speaking of that era, Barry Sanders was co-captain for the team last night and he did a voice over for the Monday Night Football intro – so much better than than that Confederate wingnut bonehead Hank Williams Jr.  Glad he’s off my TeeVee.

Calvin Johnson had a 73 yard TD reception; Jahvid Best had an 88 yard TD run; Brandon Pettigrew had an 18 yard TD reception.  Detroit’s defense was all over Jay Cutler all night.  It was a great game marred only by too much passing & not enough running.

Here’s a link to video highlights because the NFL won’t let anyone embed its precious, precious video.

I’m at the Beach & You’re Not

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Wow! What a gorgeous day! Frannie & I finally got down to the beach about 4:30 in the afternoon. There were quite a few people still hanging out on the beach – more than I’d normally see in the summer at 4:30. The picture above was taken as Frannie & I walked toward the beach from Maryland Ave. The shadow is the Boardwalk Plaza hotel.

Even at 4:30 it was in the high 70’s and there were plenty of of kids swimming in the warm water.

Most of the people were clustered around Rehoboth Ave. This picture is up the beach in the other direction toward the north where there were fewer people, and several kites…that look much tinier in this picture than I remember.

Yard Sale

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Here are a couple pics of the aftermath of the yard sale we had today. This is the the stuff no one wanted. Unwanted junk. So sad. Gabe and Erin were the driving force behind this, and by Gabe and Erin, I mean of course, Erin. It went very well. They made over $200. But as you can see from the pics, the pink Snuggy did not sell. I’m shocked! Amanda sold some clothes and odds and ends including her old stereo. Brenda, Gabe, Erin, and Amanda were at it all day, and did a good job – most successful yard sale I’ve ever been involved in. While they shmoozed with the customers, I installed a new alternator in my truck. And by “installed a new alternator in my truck” I mean of course “yelled at my truck.”

Occupy Wall Street

Class WarfareOur Failed Media Experiment

The Wall Street protests in NYC have been getting bigger and bigger, resulting in hundreds of arrests, and are now moving to other cities. Yet The news seems to be having trouble explaining what the protest is all about. All I’ve been seeing on my TeeVee are clips of idiots walking around pretending to be zombies, and inarticualte trippy people saying nothing and engaging in performance art. It’s almost as if the news media wants people to think these protests are stupid… And of course, it allows them to engage in their favorite activity: punching hippies.

Comapare this to the coverage of the Tea Party when they first started. Fox News actually sponsored many of the Tea Party events and flogged them endlessly on TV pretending that were the spontanious outpouring of views from “The People,” when in fact, they were astroturf, bought and paid for by plutocrats/corporations/those-who-actually-own-America. And, what the Tea Party politicians are proposing would result in the rich getting richer and the middle class getting poorer – just a coincidence, I’m sure…

Here’s a cell-phone capture of a Fox News interview with an “Occupy Wall Street” protestor.  The interview never aired because the person being interviewed actually had something to say. And that just doesn’t fit the mold.

“Leave a Reply” Fixed

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Gabe just informed me that the comments to the posts are not working.  How long has this been going on?  I noticed that there haven’t been any comments for over a week.  I just assumed it was because my posts suck, and you are all lazy and easily distracted.  But it turns out the comments were broken, which doesn’t preclude any of those things from being true, but at least there is another reason.  Anyway, I think I fixed it.

Spartans

Sports

MSU wins (ugly) against a crippled OSU team 10-7. But, a win is a win, especially a Big 10 win. Go Spartans!

Tigers Playoff Game 1

Sports

Detroit TigersThe Tigers have put all five starters on the roster for their playoff series against the New York Yankees.  Game 1 is tonight.

Justin Verlander, Doug Fister and Max Scherzer are the first three starters against the Yankees. The roster also includes Rick Porcello and Brad Penny instead of an additional reliever.

Go Tigers!

[Update] Rain delay until Sat. at 8:30

Red Velvet

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Sorry, forgot to post for a couple days. I know you’re clicking the page all day long hoping for a post.  And I disappointed you.  Again.  Well, dry those tears, here’s something boring and banal!  At last!

Amanda invited John over for dinner. Gabe, Erin and Julian were supposed to come over, but Gabe isn’t feeling well, so they stayed home. Too bad – their loss. Amanda wanted a chuck roast, natch’. So we had that, potatoes and gravy, and those garlic beans everyone seems to like. And a red velvet cake. Yum!  Good food and interesting conversation – a good night.

Oh, on a humorous note, while I was making the gravy, I unscrewed the pepper cap on one of those huge Costco bottles of pepper and, funny thing, someone had removed the plastic strainer from the bottle so I dumped about a pound of pepper into the gravy.  HA!  It’s funny because it didn’t happen to you!  So we had powdered gravy mix instead.  Delicious!

Last time we had the beans, Erin wanted the recipe, so here you go:

1# green beans – French style are nice
3 tablespoons or so soy sauce
1 tablespoon or so balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar or Splenda
2 tablespoons or so sesame oil
2 teaspoons of crushed garlic

Steam the beans until tender, but not too soft. Cook the garlic for a minute or so in the sesame oil. Mix up the soy sauce, vinegar, and sugar and dump that in with the oil and garlic, then add the beans amd mix them up so that they are coated with the sauce. Eat the beans.

New Computer

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Hey!  I bought a new computer last night!  Not that I need one.  My Mac was only 10 years old – still good, right?  I got a Toshiba Satellite laptop and am having way too much fun.

I plugged the memory card from my camera into the computer in order to play with images, and of course, there were no images on it.  But I did find a 2 year-old movie of Nick’s first birthday.  So I played with that.  It was my first attempt to use the video feature on the camera.  Sorry.

REM

Music

  I see where REM broke up.  To tell you the truth, I had no idea they were still together.  I have a soft spot in my heart for them.  They were the first so-called “alternative” band that got my attention back in the early ’80s.  Based on songs such as “Driver 8,” and “Radio Free Europe,” I found college radio stations playing great stuff like the Pixies, The Replacements, The Smiths, and many others.  Then I moved to the Washington D.C. area and found the wonderful  WHFS playing all the great stuff (what ever happed to Weasel?).  So, hats off to REM.  Here’s a song:

Weather

To display your local weather, click on the 3 short lines at the top right of the widget. Delete “Washington D.C.,” and start typing the name of your nearest fairly large city. When the correct city appears in the drop down list, select it.  Wait for the Page to reload, and there’s your weather. The page should remember your city.

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