In case you missed it, St. Louis won the World Series, officially ending the 9-month baseball season. It’s starting to look like there’ll be no NBA this year (are these people really that stupid? Seems like everybody’s leaving an awful lot of money on the table), though I’m only slightly more interested in pro basketball than I am in baseball. Too many games that don’t eliminate enough teams from the playoffs, so any individual game is all but meaningless. Plus the players look bored most of the time. But I suppose if we still had an NBA team here, I’d feel a lot different.
As I have no life and am up at stupid hours in the morning (up at 3:45 this morning – on a damn Saturday, ferchrissakes), I watch a lot of DIY and HGTV (which are actually infomercial channels way early, which I don’t watch – ‘cuz when I do, I wind up buying something like the Kreg Pocket Hole jig or the Rockwell Jawhorse). So, anyhow, I’m watching ‘Disaster DIY’ (which is a show where a contractor dude goes and helps clueless people finish projects; being clueless myself, I enjoy this). Anyhow, so I’m watching one this morning, and the wife is trying to get her husband to finish his project – in particular, to get the bathroom finished – and she says, “as a woman, I need a bathroom.” Now, granted, dudes have more options available but still, as a man, I, too, need a bathroom. Especially at this time of year.
Speaking of this time of year, I reckon it’s time to get the tire chains on the tractor. Hopefully that’ll stave off the snow for a while.
Mike has taken apart our bathroom. It needed the renovation because of several roofs leaks that have taken their toll. (Fortunately the roof has been fixed.) He put in the tub and shower but the rest of the facilities are down stairs…quite a pain in the middle of the night. And, because he will NEVER hire anyone to help, everything takes a long, long time. My only hope is that men (specifically Mike) do need bathrooms and therefore we will have one with all it’s parts in one room.
I’m not too worried about the NBA at this point. They can always take page from Hollywood. Their fallback (flopping?) plan could be a straight to the playoffs format. Many of the teams already employ strategy for that anyway. They either try to be just good enough to make the large field or bad enough to qualify for the draft lottery. More than half the teams get in anyway. Perhaps a rush to the bottom (flopping?) playoff for the rest instead of the lottery to determine draft positions. Imagine all of the teams tanking to try to win/lose a higher position in the draft. That could be very compelling.
After one glorious year, our SF Giants are no longer the ‘World’ champions. I guess my only takeaway from this is that the trophy remains in the National League and the Bush-Ryan Express was stopped again. I know you might be expecting me to play George :jerk: Will’s favorite manager Tea-baggin’ Tony LaRassa and his star player and free agent Albert Pujols appearing at the Glenn :barf: Blech rally last year but I must disappoint you.
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It’s a grey, rainy day and tonight it’s supposed to snow. I can’t believe it. Snow before Halloween? Yuck!
Looks like we’re missing out on the big snow party. Gee, what a shame.
A toilet with a remote control!
I feel confident PJ, that you will have enough snow partying on your path to contending for that Golden Snowball.
Our bathroom remodels are going very slowly, too, sp. But we STILL aren’t in the house. We added a master bath upstairs and then some engineer decided the added tub and tile and people could potentially end up downstairs in the dining room. So now the dining room is ripped up to add support beams. Waiting for tile for the other bath. We did, however, get the overhead lights in kitchen to work in unison from single switches. Former owner had each light on a separated switch requiring traipsing around to find the various switches to light the kitchen.
Old houses are full of surprises.
No snow on Shelter Island. According to the weather channel there are 3″ in Central Park, less probably where there is pavement. Palemale’s ardent fan, Lincoln Karim, took photos of Central Park.
Some snow in Brooklyn, but not much. In Orange County, where my kids live, there’s a foot and a half and lots of folks without power.
It’s been an interesting few months: an earthquake, a hurricane and snow before Halloween. Is God trying to tell the folks in Michigan or Nevada something? I’m sure Pat Robertson or Michelle Bachmann will be happy to interpret.
When asked by ABC’s This Week host Christiane Amanpour about what her tax plan would be, the congresswoman said that she would implement a flat tax. But while discussing her plan, Bachmann seemed to not understand what exactly a “flat tax†is.
“I would flatten the rates and simplify them, I would not have just one rate, but I’ll have several rates,†she said. “A flattened, simple, much fairer system, and one that would be equitable and raise revenues for the federal government as well.â€
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/30/bachmann-my-flat-tax-would-have-not-one-but-several-rates/
Isn’t Bachmann a tax attorney? I believe she worked for the IRS.
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