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Sep. 9th, 2018 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogFriday was a decent day, other than two opponents, both of whom had well over a month to file opposition in hearings originally scheduled for July, waiting until late on the Thursday before this coming Wednesday's hearings in each (Buffalo AM, Rochester PM) to file basically BS opposition in each. There went much of my Friday. Another hour of it got killed because I went downtown to appear in a case I tried in late April, without decision from the judge. No official word I had to be there, but the generally useless state court case tracking system said it was on Friday at 9:30 for "disposition." I have no idea what that means in a civil case context, so I dressed nicely and arrived on time, only to find no judge and no explanation. It eventually turned out she used the "event" as a reminder to issue a decision since she's been off the bench for weeks due to surgery. Thanks, guys, for not telling me that:P
But the rest of the day was mostly quiet and mildly profitable, so I headed into the weekend with the brutally hot weather of the past mostly-month finally fading and promised to fall quickly into fall, just in time for Kickoff Weekend of YOUR BUFFALO BILLS!
Fall is right.
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The temp went first. The dog park was iffy for our usual Sunday morning confab due to the remnants of Gordon due to arrive here today, so our usual gang met up for a Saturday afternoon visit instead. It was MUCH cooler than it's been, with sweats and sweaters coming out among the humans, and it's much busier in the afternoons. Pepper scared me with a sudden stop on the path with her pawing around her eyes- turned out to be a burr she'd gotten stuck in her ear which I removed- but she met and played well with plenty of new pups as well as her friends Ursula and Jake.
Then things got goofy at home. Likely because of the weather change, Zoey had been in a MOOD all day-
-and when feeding time came and she did not appear at her bowl, we knew something was up. Or in her case, out. Sure enough, I didn't notice that Zoey had snuck out of the house, then found her outside in spooky-kitty mode.While I was checking on her, I also didn't notice that Pepper proceeded to hop up on the edge of the kitchen counter and ate Zoey's food. Feeling guilty, I next poured out a whole extra cat fud can for Spooky Zoey, putting it atop the garage freezer when she didn't fall for the bait so Pepper didn't get a second helping of the forbidden fruit- only to forget it was up there when Eleanor asked me to get something from the freezer, toppling it in equal parts between the freezer bottom shelf and the garage floor;
By then, Zoey was done playing, back in the kitchen and, ahem, where was her fud? I scooped as much as possible back into her bowl and let Pepper clean up the rest of it because Yelp said Rosie's Diner was closed #HMSBounty. Completing the indignity for me, aftere she (and we) ate, and I was cleaning up the dishes? I cut the shit out of the tip of my left ring finger trying to rinse out that second cat fud can. Rosie cleaned up all of THAT blood, too.
But I finished some needed work, the Mets even won as I fell asleep, and today was Opening Day with the Bills tied for first in the AFC East at 0-0! What would today bring?
Don't ask.
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At least the rain held off here, and Pepper got an extra Parp! visit and I mowed most of our lawn until the mower battery gave out (finished it after an afternoon recharge). Sadly, the battery on my radio was fully charged the whole time, and by the time Eleanor got home from Sunday Buddhism, the Bills were already down 20-0. We spent the rest of gametime at an art opening of a friend of ours up in Lockport, and it was mercifully over- Baltimore 47, Buffalo 3- by the time we settled in back at home. Since their next (at least) five opponents are as good or better than the Mediocre Ravens, I need a new hobby for Sundays. Many people play in "fantasy" leagues where you pick your own players from any NFL team and score points for QB touchdowns, offensive player running and receiving yards, and defensive stops. But I can't root against my beloveds no matter what, so I have a different solution:
a Fantasy Suck League.
Stay with me here. In this setup, you deliberately pick bad players and teams, and get points when your QB throws a pick and your defense gives up points. (That's as far this template takes it, although the Bills could inspire numerous bad categories this year.)
I have a history with this. In college, there was an arcade video game named Lunar Lander, the object of which was to land a LEM on the moon’s surface without crashing. It was too hard for us, so we’d play it as Lunar Crasher- points for highest velocity hitting the surface, bonuses for downhill rolls and such. Oh, look, a video!
BTW, I've reconnected in the past week or so with one of the roommates from that "we," and there may be more coming here about that reconnection. Stay tuned; sure beats following football:P
ETA. ooh, lookie here- you can play it on online:)
http://my.ign.com/atari/lunar-lander
And that mysterious reference at the end is on hold; I'd checked with that one roommate (unofficially, both of them;) to see if they'd be interested in seeing the a game at Fenway next weekend if I came over there; even the Red Sox can't stop people from giving away their tickets for next to nothing when the Mets are involved. Alas, they've been and will be out of town a lot, so we'll be in Wait Till Next Year mode for that.
Other fails I think I've forgotten to mention: our dryer crapped out Thursday night, but we managed to get an appointment today to get it fixed. Also, the KB on this laptop is now kaput to the point where I'm resorting to an external USB unit to type anything on or below the ZXCVB line (including the rather important space bar). I'm steeling myself for the call to Dell Tech Support to see if I can get the damn thing replaced without having to go without it for weeks.
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Date: 2018-09-10 08:01 am (UTC)*wince* So...guessing Petersen wasn't exactly what everyone had hoped? I don't get any of the games on this side of the world, but that might be for the best based on what you're saying.
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Date: 2018-09-12 04:29 pm (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V3CfD8TPac
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Date: 2018-09-12 10:31 pm (UTC)