No, no, I wasn’t celebrating Yom Kippur.
Just forgot to post.
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Consumed this weekend…
- apples
- apple cider
- apple cider donuts
- apple cider donut Oreos
With that many adjectives it has to be good, right?
Yeah, it was as good as it sounds.
On next week’s episode of Math and Musings (available wherever podcasts are sold) I discuss my frustration with the NFL and “football” in general for keeping the put-my-product-on-traditional-television model of content delivery. Even old white man sports such as baseball and golf are delivering via the Internet these days rather than old school “TV.”
Well, someone must’ve gotten an advance copy of the show.
Last night’s season-opening contest between the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
Peacock!
Cord cutters rejoice.
And damn what a game it was.
Final piece of suburban white guy livin’: company softball league starts tonight.
New new obsession in the O’Connell household… WarioWare: Get It Together!
This is the tenth installment (so the Internet claims) in the WarioWare series, and the first since 2018. My roommates and I have been playing the demo version just released (free sample… clever), ready to buy the full game when it releases this Friday.
Officially a “minigame party game,” WW:GIT really takes mini to the extreme. Most “games” last about a second and a half, and yeah, it feels like and eternity when one actually goes two or three ticks on the clock.
I guess they figure that’s all the attention span anyone really has any more.
New family obsession in the O’Connell household is Bake Squad, Netflix original series hosted by Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi. It’s basically Milk Bar on TV, and manages to entertain all three (very different) members of the O’Connell clan.
What I like most about Bake Squad is that it’s not really a contest. (Wikipedia calls it “lightly competitive.”) There’s no prizes or immunities or elimination rounds, just awesome bakers doing awesome things. Kind of a cross between Cake Boss and Saturday morning cartoons.
Netflix dropped eight episodes a few weeks ago and we’ve nearly completed the season. The episode we watched (together!) last night featured a cake for a “royal winter wonderland” wedding. Cristophe and Maya-Camille put together a “throne room scene consisting of orange soda cakes with cranberry filling shaped as crown pillows, orange custard tarts, and decorative sugar showpiece.”
Yup, that just about describes it.
Seen yesterday around the halls of an unnamed middle school in Virginia, a variation of some type of rain dance, visions of school cancellations frolicking about student minds. A few teachers’ minds too.
Hurricane Ida, like all hurricanes (even when “downgraded” to tropical storms) is no laughing matter. Thankfully my schoolmates and I are far from the major brunt of the storm, so the theatrics were just that.
Still, though, you never know.
Remember… last March 11 I didn’t think they’d close down the schools for a year either.
Our neighbors to the north, the Baltimore Ravens, set a fantastic but rather dubious record this past Saturday evening. After beating my hometown team (that would be the Washington Football Team), the Ravens have now won twenty straight preseason games. Some kind of record, apparently, topping the Lombardi-era Green Bay Packers.
Twenty straight wins in preseason games? Well, I guess that’s better than losing twenty straight games that don’t matter.
Crash Davis has the minor league home run record, the Ravens have the preseason win-streak record.
Most old episodes of The Simpsons I watch now entertain me even more than they did when I first watched them because if nothing else I get more of the jokes. They’re more relevant to me now, and I appreciate that.
But Season Six, Episode 21? It’s called “The PTA Disbands!” That’s the one where the teachers at Springfield Elementary go on strike and the PTA decides to replace them with well-meaning but incompetent members of the community.
Yeah, that one’s a little too relevant on way too many levels for me now.
Well, this is it… the true last day of summer vacation.
Shoot.