Big weekend here. The Syracuse Nationals are in town (the car show – not to be confused with the Iroquois Nationals, who are not in town, but are on a bus headed back to the region because it appears unlikely that the Brits will let them in, and they just can’t afford to stay in NYC any longer). It’s also Empire Brewfest weekend, which means lots of people will be drinking lots of beer (a shockingly unique idea; I guess some people need an excuse to drink lots of beer). I’d go, but tickets are pretty pricey ($49 or $99 for the “Beer Connoisseur” ticket, which gets you in an hour early and lets you sample beer that the $49 riff-raff doesn’t get. $50 will get me at least 5 sixpacks of Hop Devil, which lasts me at least four nights – maybe three, if I get on a roll – and as much as a week if I’m slacking off).
It’s gonna be hot today, too, but I won’t complain about it. Instead, I’ll complain about my shoulder, which for some reason starting killing me in the middle of the night, and is making it very difficult to type. I’m getting kinda tired of this getting old shit. Seems like at least part of me hurts at all times (can’t wait ’til they all decide to hurt simultaneously). I wish I had more faith in the whole life after death or reincarnation or whatever shit. I’m starting to think it’s time to reboot. Oh well, time to go find something that needs to get done (which shouldn’t be too hard).
:joe:
Amen.
Speaking of reincarnation, it looks like the Golden State Warriors dodged a bullet the other day. It appeared that Oracle’s Larry Ellison was about to buy the team right after Steinbrenner passed but it went to someone else at the last minute.
I’ve been having some nasty shoulder/pinched nerve issues myself.
On my way to 103 degrees!
From Gail Collins:
This has been a bad summer for almost everybody — celebrities, shrimpers, Washington insiders, Tea Party outsiders, people who prefer pleasant weather. So far, my list of who did well only includes the Spanish soccer team and Paul the prophetic octopus. Plus, according to Senator Jim Bunning, George Steinbrenner. The Kentucky Republican praised the Yankee owner in the Senate Finance Committee for being “smart enough to die in 2010,†when the estate tax is temporarily suspended.
Oh, that Jim Bunning — always looking on the bright side. Why aren’t there more people like that in government?
This week, Congress passed the huge reform of the financial industry that it had been working on for nearly two years. You’d think there would have been cheering from coast to coast, but the left was disheartened to discover that contrary to all previous precedent, Congress had passed a bill that was imperfect.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/17/opinion/17collins.html?ref=opinion
I worked my ass off for the last year and a half, losing ten pounds to stress, in order to get off the night-shift so that I could spend my last few working years living as a normal human and getting to hike some of those mountains I moved here for 35 years ago which I hadn’t been able to hike the last 12 years.
Now I’ve been hiking the last two weeks and my knee is killing me and I probably need a new knee. :tap:
Is it just the time of year for us oldsters or the time of our years?- never mind, I don’t want to know the answer.
At least now it’s hit 100.6 and still time to break the record of 101 :hot:
More people being mean to poor Pedro:
Pedro Espada Jr., the State Senate majority leader, has already been accused by New York’s attorney general of using his network of health clinics for personal gain and is under investigation by federal prosecutors.
Now Mr. Espada faces a new problem: a well-financed political opposition with a history of defeating incumbents that is looking to unseat him in the Democratic primary in September.
The left-leaning Working Families Party, which has evolved into arguably the most powerful third party in the state, has decided to focus its considerable organizational resources on ousting Mr. Espada and electing a little-known candidate who is running his first race — Jose Gustavo Rivera, 34, a former aide to Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/17/nyregion/17bronx.html?ref=todayspaper
ah yes, those nasty upper back nerve pinches. anti-inflamatories and muscle relaxers plus a good hit of pain killer to get some sleep.
or a pinch of good bud.
aging gracefully can be as artistic as a Rodin sculpture, but no one escapes the pain.
love you all
I’m trying to hike flat top but no one around seems to be enthused by the prospect. There’s a shuttle from downtown that already left at one that I could probably take tomorrow. I may have to go solo.
One downside is that I only get 4 hours of hiking time with the shuttle.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattop_Mountain_(Anchorage,_Alaska)
aging gracefully can be as artistic as a Rodin sculpture, but no one escapes the pain.
(Trav, keep your eyes on the Russian planes flying overhead for us since Palin is busy self-promoting!)