Long haul, An Egg

I had to work from home both Friday evening and Saturday morning to get a very important procedure done. This was supposed to be completed earlier in the week but because of some annoying issues it got pushed backwards several times. I believe those issues have been handled. I don’t wind up having to do much after hours work nowadays so I can’t really complain. This task is one of the most important annual procedures we do so it had to get done.

Saturday was a mixture of tasks in the morning that kept me moving. I made arrangements to meet Jason out at Ave Maria to do a ride. On the way there I drove by my old house to take a look at the new fence my ex-neighbor told me about. They installed a black vinyl fence complete with an automatic gate along the front property line. It butts up against the existing field fence. It felt a bit strange seeing this pretty significant change to my old home. Oddly the first thought that came to my head was the additional maintenance required to keep those several hundred feet of fencing weed whacked and manicured. I was not envious, at all.

I had a good ride with Jason where we rolled around for a couple hours at Ave Maria. The town was the busiest I had ever seen it, there were cars and activity pretty much everywhere. Jason and I had a small collision when I turned where he did not expect. He bumped in to me at low speed causing both of us to dump the wheels, luckily nothing was damaged other than our pride.

Sunday morning I got out and played a couple of hours with pickleball with my group at Talis Park. As always it was a lot of fun. Despite almost all of the members being older and much, much more financially affluent than I am they seem to enjoy my company as well as playing with/against me.

I did some more purging of clothing yesterday. I recently did a massive culling of old t-shirts I no longer needed/wanted. This time I went through the drawers of my other dresser and again used a mindset much more open to discarding things that are worn or no longer see regular use. In the end I had another garbage bag of clothes I dropped off at Goodwill.

I flipped on the Eagles/Jets game. The game followed the path of most games the Birds have played this year, they didn’t play spectacularly but seemingly well enough to win except for one final detail, the didn’t win. The seemed poised to pull out another close victory with Jake Elliot lining up for a short field goal that would have extended their lead to 17-12. Instead Elliot who has been automatic all year pushed the kick wide.

After forcing a Jets punt the Eagles seemed poised to still lock down the game with a drive that could eat up the remaining game clock. Instead Jalen Hurts threw a bad interception that almost got returned for a TD. The Eagles allowed the Jets to score quickly so they could still drive the fields to potentially score their own game winning TD. It didn’t happen, instead the offense sputtered and died leaving the team with it’s first loss of the year. I don’t believe anyone expected the Jets to hang the Eagles with their first L of the season. Hurts threw three interceptions in the game so a lot of focus is going to be on him and why statistically he has fallen off this year. I’m not looking to blame anyone in particular, I just hope the loss helps motivate the team to clean up things in several areas of their game.

I have made significant progress in my Game of Thrones binging which started a number of weeks ago. I am now a few episodes into season 7. It has been a real treat to be able to watch the series in more rapid succession.