Schoolbells ring and children sing, “It’s back to Robert Hall again.”
It’s the only song I ever heard my father sing… two lines from a (then) 50-year-old advertising jingle.
He didn’t know the rest of the words either.
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When I was a kid I used to sort of hate Labor Day because it meant the end of summer.
Thirty years later I pretty much feel the same way.
Friday before Labor Day. It’s a real holiday. Just look it up. Actually no, don’t… just enjoy it.
Thanks.
Amidst a sea of darkness in this global pandemic I have found my newly-purchased second computer monitor to be a shining beacon of merriment and diversion. When it’s all over can I ever go back to one monitor?
Never again.
When I was a kid and we talked about the future it was always flying cars and robots.
Now that we’re here the most interesting thing to me about “the future” is being able to go to the grocery store.
Of 15 games scheduled across Major League Baseball yesterday only eight of them were actually played. Of those eight games, four of them were shutouts. (What is this, 1968?)
In the remaining four games, losing teams scored 1, 3, 3, and 7 runs, for a total of 14. Considering the four zeroes, losing teams scored an average of 1.75 runs. That would be the mean. The mode was zero, the median was 0.5, and the range was 7.
Just wanted to get back in practice a little bit.
It dawned on me yesterday that in the virtual-schooling era we are never going to have a “snow day,” or any other cancellation because we can’t get to school. Connectivity issues cancelling school maybe, but not weather.
And come to think of it, even if (no… when!) we do go back to in-person classes, will we ever cancel school for any reason ever again? We’re already in like the worst crisis in world history and we’re still having school; I don’t think a few flakes of snow is going to do it. And speaking of which, that issue–closing school because there’s a trace of snow on the ground–just became more acute. Now that we know we can go to school online, is there ever a reason to send the buses out when there’s even a flake of snow on the ground? Or it’s below about 43 degrees?
Talk about a new world we’re living in.
You know what sport really needs actual fans in the stadium?
Not just because I don’t otherwise care about it, but because this sport’s fans are notoriously part of its tapestry…
yeah, that communist sport we all play as kids… soccer.
Yesterday’s Champions League final between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich just wasn’t the same without 100,000 rowdy people there with the players, no?
Reason number 50 billion life needs to get back to normal.
And with that hockey was over. #nocaps
Guess it’s time now for summer!
My hometown NHL club (that would be the Washington Capitals) staved off elimination last night, I’m afraid though just prolonging the inevitable: a first-round playoff loss. I still like their chances better than I do those of the Portland Trailblazers, though, who despite last night’s win still have quite a climb against the Lakers in their first-round bubble matchup.
Gotta love hockey and basketball in the summertime.