This is one of those nights where I can’t seem to put together much by way of coherent thoughts. The 3 hrs and 43 minutes of sleep from the night before may have something to do with that. Still, I need to take care of all of my old business so I can dedicate myself in full to the novel process. Until the ‘morrow it is just going to be these loose thoughts, so might as well get started…
- I really should make my pics on fridays, because by then the injury reports are in and I know exactly what impact these missing parts will have.
- Still feeling a lot of numbness and or tingling all down my left arm. I thought it was a stroke the first day, but a month in I’m convinced I have some nerve issues, likely in my neck.
- As my #3 QB (playing for the first time in my fantasy roster) collects points in garbage time, I find myself thinking about how much better it feels to win than to lose. Last year I was 2-11 and this year I’m 5-0. Nice.
- That winning rule applies to kids sports too. This weekend my middle guy ‘tied’ a matchup where the ref failed to call some clear penalties on our side of the ball. Normally, I don’t get pissed about these things, but her failure to call the penalties emboldened the other team and they kept on playing dirty until they injured several of our players, including my kid. For example, once the goalie has the ball you back off. You don’t run up and kick him in the head and then act like you were trying to kick the ball out of his hands… Then you as a ref should never turn to the coach of the boy kicked and say, “I don’t know why they don’t know they can’t do that.” Maybe because when they do it you complain to me instead of telling them what they did wrong?
- While it is clear that pornography creates an unhealthy standard for women, it is also clear (by the rampant success of the plastic surgery industry) that women are more willing to conform than to challenge. Who can blame them? I mean, I’d rather be adored than be the lonely righteous one.
- Of course, the opposite is true in my writing. I tend to write how I would not act.