Day: October 18, 2021

For the 47th time, lists work.

I’m laying in bed in my phone at 5:30 am thinking about the mountain of stuff that I have to do this morning, which led me to remembering the past four times I did this and forgot a large portion of those responsibilities. I didn’t write them down and as a result they didn’t get done. I simply have too much to do to remember it all in my head. The lack of desire to do most of it also lends itself to forgetting.

The nature of my brain wiring is to focus on instant gratification or close gratification scenarios which I have little actual control over. I was the kid who dreamed about what gifts were going to be under the tree as opposed to focusing on what I could do to earn money for the stuff I wanted as gifts. There is a thread of laziness in that which I handed down to my kids and absolutely ruins my partnership on a weekly basis. I won’t fall into the trap of saying I’m too old to rewire my brain, but I know lists keep me on the right path.

I ought to go write one right now..

Some thoughts:

1. Just read that Colin Powell died of Covid complications. We hear a lot about famous people or even just friends of friends dying of the disease or because of it, but I don’t know anyone personally who died of Covid. Of course, I don’t know anyone who died of Cancer or Pneumonia or the Flu either.
   

Well, we won. It wasn’t the effort or execution I wanted, but here are the standings based on that win:

Team	Win	Loss	Ties	Power Points	PF	PA
Irish	5	0		138	149	6
Raiders	5	0		158	118	34
Liberty Lions	4	1		182.4	150	67
Argos	4	0		178	172	6
Mustangs	3	2		206.8	64	77
Dragons	3	3		151.2	95	67
Spartans	3	1		46.8	83	24
Jr Eagles	2	3		121.2	36	92
Peoria Panthers	2	2		31.2	74	56
Yuma Coyotes	2	2		31.2	21	53
Jr Huskies	2	2		31.2	55	25
Force Football	1	2		15.6	39	53
Ridge Army	1	3		31.2	26	95
Outlaws	1	2		15.6	41	61
Mesa Toros	0	3		50	0	55
Devilbacks	0	3		0	0	106

We haven’t played anyone. We still haven’t played a winning team in the NYS league. We need to do that soon. By the look of things we aren’t going to have 8 games this season. Feels like the only way to even out the number of games is for us to have 7. That puts the next game as our last game of the regular season. So, if not now, when? Playoffs. That’s when. It’s an awful idea to face our first real test when a loss means the end of the season. However, it is entirely possible that this happens. Here’s how:

The top 4 teams are going to be D1 teams and compete for the state D1 championship. 3 teams are undefeated. Given how the league ranks teams (Points For) the idea would likely be to put teams on the verge of D1 against each other to see who is the top. That means the 1 loss teams face off. That also likely means not putting one of the undefeated teams up against each other or up against any real competition or–in a perfect world–against each other. That would mean 5-0 Raiders v. 5-0 Irish. My guess would be the Liberty Lions vs. the West Valley Spartans as another matchup and the Argos v. a 2 win team.

We’ll see Tuesday.