Rolled, The first 60 is the worst 60

The Eagles/Buccaneers game went sort of like I expected with Tampa winning convincingly.  The game was not as close as the 28-22 final score.  Tom Brady was surgical in his dissection of the Eagles defense, which returned to seeming pretty hapless.  Again the run/pass balance was woeful and statistically Jalen Hurts had an awful game, making very few throws, instead relying on his legs to to keep anything going.

To be fair this is only his 10th start but I certainly have not seen anything so far that makes me think that the team has made anything better than a lateral move at QB and more than likely, a downgrade. The more he plays, the less promising his future appears, to me at least.  After the Patriots scored to go ahead 28-7 I flipped over and watched another episode of Titans before flipping back to see the post mortem.

Man, getting up during the week to the 5:40AM alarm is brutal nowadays.  I mean before the alarm was set for 5:55 AM so it’s only 15 minutes earlier.  However before if I wanted to lay there a few minutes to catch my bearings I could.  There is no time for that anymore.  Within 15 seconds of that alarm going off I need to eject myself from bed whether I am ready or not, because I have to.  To get everything done around the house before leaving for work requires that I hit the accelerator the instant my eyes open. It gets a bit rough, especially when you are up late watching the Eagles under performing.  I really need to try to get more than 6 hours of sleep during the week.  I spend most days feeling alert only during the coffee induced waves of artificial energy I experience twice a day.

This will be a bit of an odd weekend, it’s Cindy’s birthday. Normally this was something that we celebrated consistently and enthusiastically over the years with family dinners, nice presents and even the cruise for her 50th birthday which was one of my favorite memories of recent times.  Going into this birthday not together is certainly going to feel foreign and unhappy, for me at least.   I am going to make my mom’ chocolate cake for her, I need to make sure my cake baking skills don’t get too rusty.

Since I got the mowing done during the week and the Eagles game went down last night I should have some extra time this weekend to do other things, besides baking a cake.  What exactly those other things will be is not determined as of yet.