Day: September 14, 2022

I won two out of three matchups this week. The strange part is, the one I thought I had the best chances of winning ended up being where I was absolutely crushed. This being my strange QB heavy league that I never figured out, I don’t quite know what I ought to be doing differently. Get better players, I suppose. I went out and did a bit of that by securing Taysom Hill as a TE/Flex. Nice to have a QB at flex where he can do serious damage if given the snaps. His team won last week–if barely. My team won last week by an equally bare margin. They go into a week 2 matchup with an 0-1 Panthers team that is hungry, growing, and dangerous.

Still, I think the Giants win this.

Some other matchups:

Chiefs over Chargers
This is a major battle for years to come, but PattyMo is entirely on fire right now, and I don’t know that Herbert has enough weapons to keep up in this shootout.

Ravens over Dolphins
Dolphins have an explosive offense and they still could not score 3 TDs on the Patriots. The Ravens ought to be able to pull away in this one

Browns over Jets
These two AFC divisions are going to be banging all season. I don’t see any East team outside of the Bills taking a single game.

Some Thoughts:

1. I imagine a world where gender stratification is deeply lessened. However, I don’t live in that world. I am supposed to conform to the role I am given as a man–especially when under pressure. I am not allowed to break. I am not supposed to get enraged. I am left to merely be. I need to go back to Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings and find in that my pathway to inner peace. I say I because in order to be part of something more, you have to first be secure in self.

Here is a peculiar truth about real estate: It attracts the worst kind of people. From renting to owning, the people on the side of buying and renting are generally awful humans. I am speaking on the investors–purveyors of human misery and those who can reduce a person to a series of numbers. I tried to sell my house to an investor and they played the old wait and drop game on me. Wait till the closing date, demand I sell for less. I lost 35,000 in potential revenue before I decided enough was enough and quit. I presently am aiming to sell the house through more traditional means and I hope it goes better. It does mean I have to ‘tee it up’ as the realtor says. That means I need to make it look a thousand times better than it does right now only to have it be nit picked to hell and the buyer try to talk me down again.

I am not going to make half of what I expected. I do have a number I am comfortable with from a profit standpoint, and if I cannot get there I am going to sit on it and wait until I can make some real money. In the meanwhile, maybe I can rent it out to someone who needs a home. I’m good with that part of it, at least. It is a pretty nice home and it will sell for a decent profit sooner or later. I wanted it sooner so I could travel and do some special things for my partner and the kids. That isn’t a realistic plan anymore, so right now I’m trying to figure a way to simply survive the disappointment of a failed sale.