The Opposites of Losing:

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-Winning, for one.  The day brought a nice share of it.  In church this morning, I got to announce that our 25th anniversary is later this week, but I got the congregation to bite on a fake move first. In every marriage, I said, there come some very important events, and I'm pleased to announce that among them.... Eleanor got new glasses last week and they look really great!  Also, Wednesday is our 25th anniversary.

We got more than a few congratulations after the service, but Eleanor got far more compliments on the new peepers;)

Also, in perhaps the only significant loss of the day, I got a flu shot at our church's annual clinic for such things, which probably explains why I've had a wicked headache since early this afternoon.

We gots things done outside, dinner was yummy, and the Bills won. I waited until the game started to begin my first full back-yard mowing in literally months; there are still whole sunburned-out sections back there with nothing growing in them, but where it is growing, the grass was starting to get pretty overgrown.  The team has changed its radio affiliate to an AM station, so my old FM/.mp3 player is no longer an option for listening while mowing/working out. The new station has several iPhone options for listening to them, including their own app, but all but one of these seem to be blocked during the games- and the one that isn't is an odd feed that's about 15 minutes behind real time. Plus, they edit out all the commercials, replacing them with these really weird public service announcements.  I heard the same stupid ads over and over about selecting the right car seat for your baby, or being sure the kids brush their teeth twice a day, or about a toll-free number you can call to get a pep talk while studying for your GED.

Even the Mets won today, completing a three-game sweep of a series at home, where they have posted a terrible horrible no good very bad record since the All-Star break in July. It helped that they were playing the one team on their schedule that's a bigger joke than they are, the Miami Marlins. I honored the occasion with a parody of the old Billy Joel "Miami 2017" song, which you can see (in its original form) here and read on the Met blog.

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The other opposite of losing? Finding.

In this case, Forrester.  Eleanor had a difficult experience the other day with an older person in her life, and was looking for something cinematic that might help relate to it, and after several other choices got called out, we settled on this 2001 Sean Connery film, which we hadn't watched in ages.  While it was on point to the struggles faced by older folk, it also resonated with both of us for the parallels we felt to the younger lead in the film. The young student/writer/basketball player was played by a then-unknown New Yorker with no formal acting training named Rob Brown (he showed up at an open call in hopes he'd get a gig as an extra so he could pay his phone bill);  he connected with Connery and the director from the start and did an awesome job in a difficult part.  More than once, we found ourselves thinking of Cameron- to how important family is, and not necessarily

the family that is our blood...but the family that can become our blood.

Or which, in his case, already has.

(There's also a Jeopardy! in-joke earlier in the film, which led to at least one "suck it, Professor Crawford!" retort on my part.)

Comments

[likethewatch.livejournal.com]

You made me LOL with your glasses joke.

[tilia-tomentosa.livejournal.com]

Glasses are indeed very important when you want to see your husband clearly. ;)