I used to think of bar trivia as just something fun to do on a Monday or Tuesday night.
Win often enough and it becomes an investment.
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Witnessing the amount of candy passing through my classroom Friday I felt as though I could coin a new phrase…
Valentine’s Day is the new Halloween.
I suppose that makes Presidents’ Day the new Thanksgiving.
Washington and Lincoln still get mad they have to share it with 43 other bozos.
In recent years it’s become fashionable to dislike Valentine’s Day, mocking those who embrace its mawkish celebration.
Like most trends, this one should be bucked.
Valentine’s Day is great. It’s got chocolate and candy and all that stuff, and it’s become even less religious than Christmas.
This year it kicks off a three-day weekend celebrating yet another underrated holiday, and on top of all that you’ve got position players reporting to spring training in the next few days.
Yup. Spring. I think I’m calling Valentine’s Day the official start of spring.
Feelin’ that one.
It’s been a tough week, but at least it’s Friday.
Oh, wait…
crap.
In 1986 Mark McGwire played 18 games–just few enough to keep him a “rookie” in his famous ’87 season.
In those 18 games he appeared twice as a pinch hitter–and the other 16 at 3rd base!
Third base!
Obsessed with baseball cards again.
Just in time.
Yesterday’s bellringer asked students to calculate the age of a person born on February 6, 1911. (It’s 109, by the way.)
I also asked them to identify someone with this birthday.
Would’ve been a better bit if anyone actually knew who Ronald Reagan was.
‘Round these parts we’ve had temperatures in the 60s the past two days with another rather balmy (for February) start to today.
Who’s doubting the groundhog now?
Among my other activities in life I am responsible for teaching 11-year-olds the finer points of mathematics. Math isn’t exactly everyone’s idea of entertainment, so I occasionally pepper in some lighter material as well. With some success. Here’s an example of me trying to be clever at school.
Me: You know the word “gullible” is misspelled in the dictionary?
Eleven-year-old: What’s a dictionary?
Nice try, Boomer.
February 2020 has five Saturdays. This doesn’t happen very often. As a matter of fact, it happens only about once every 28 years. Two conditions must be met. One, February 1 must be a Saturday, and two, it must be a leap year. The first of the month being a Saturday happens one-seventh of the time, and leap years occur one-fourth of the time (not really, but it’s close enough).
When you’ve got something that happens only one-fourth of one-seventh of the time you take advantage of it. Get out and enjoy those February Saturdays!
Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish has a new name as of Sunday… five-time Grammy Award winner.
Earlier in life she had a much different name… mine. As in, O’Connell.
Yeah, girl’s birth name is actually O’Connell. Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell. (I know.)
Seriously, why would you give up that one? And Pirate? Your parents give you a gift and you give it up?
#smh