All in One, F vs F, Key is to not care, Never too sick for idiocy and adulation
As predicted, I kept the list down to single digits this weekend. I hit things hard on Saturday. My weed whacking session, despite it being what I normally do felt like it went on forever. Forever was probably closer to two hours which is a long time to be holding a vibrating and spinning stick in your hands. I even got my indoor work pretty complete including replacing the hot end on my one Prusa MK3S. That was the last outstanding repair I had in there meaning all 9 printers in the room are again functional, a rarity.
I have been struggling to get all 9 parts of the Iron Man mask successfully completed. At this point all of the red pieces are done, all that remains is the front mask and chin piece. I have had the mask print fail 3 times so far. I need to tweak some print settings and give it another go tonight.
Saturday night we watched Ford vs Ferrari which tells the real life story of the rivalry of the two companies back in the 60s. If you aren’t a car person you won’t enjoy the film as much as Cindy and I did but you still will like it. We both felt it was A level entertainment.
The entire weekend was overcast but the second half of Saturday and all of Sunday was especially that way with a few periods of pounding rain for good measure. My Sunday was as chore free as they can be for me. Outside of a few small things I spent the day doing mostly what I wanted, which was nice for a change. Part of that included going on another PEV ride with Cindy. We stayed close to the house due to the threatening skies surrounding us.
The Eagles didn’t play until Sunday night against the 49ers, yes the team that went to the Super Bowl last year. I had already assumed it would be another loss and was not excited at all to watch the latest under-performance. I did not realize that if there was one team that could possibly go head to head with the Eagles in terms of being decimated by injuries, it’s the Niners. Like the Birds their line up was missing at least 25% of the normal starters.
I felt very fortunate and surprised to see the Eagles come away with a win. Don’t worry, the Eagles did their best to give it away at the end letting the Niners 3rd string QB come up just short of scoring two TD’s in three minutes. The victory was only assured when the pass into the end zone was thankfully knocked away by Darius Slay. So what are my thoughts about the team now, since they have secured their first win? To be honest, not all that different.
Wentz was just ok, being the most effective when he was running with the ball instead of passing for a good portion of the game. The injuries on this team are debilitating. We have back ups to the backs ups taking snaps. These injuries specifically to the wide receivers has made Zac Ertz pretty much invisible so far this season. The lack of WR threat allows teams to lock down on Ertz. I still don’t see any bright future for this team in 2020 in the cards. The insane thing is with a record of 1-2-1, the Eagles are in first place in the NFC East. Yes the division has become the toilet division of the NFL, it’s sort of sad.
Covid 19 is already starting to create havoc in the league with multiple teams reporting outbreaks which are going to be a mess to work out. When NFL games get cancelled it isn’t like you can just play a double header later to make up for it. I’m also glad we decided to cancel our fantasy football league this year. Fantasy leagues are on the verge of being cancelled because of Covid. It creates roster uncertainty that makes it impossible to field a team in some situations.
Much of the news over the weekend was focused on Donald contracting covid 19. Evidently his symptoms worsened enough to require hospital admission. Just like every other aspect of the Trump administration, there has been an effort to obfiscuate the facts of the situation. One thing that was clear, despite having Covid, Don still has the intense desire to devour adulation from his devout acolytes. Despite being actively contagious he determined it was necessary to take a SUV ride around the hospital so he could wave to his fans, putting anyone in close contact with him at risk. There is also all sorts of collateral damage as the president appears to be a “super spreader” as a ton of people in his circle of existence now have tested positive for covid as well, including Chris Christy who was Trump’s “debate coach”. If he told Trump to act like that on stage it seems he should be happy to share in the covid joy.
There are all sorts of rumors circulating that Trump having covid is a false flag, that somehow it would garner him a pity vote in the election. I don’t buy it. I can see no scenario where Don’s getting covid as being anything but the cherry on top of his mountain of bullshit. Of course the hardcore Trumpers will never open their eyes or ears to any alternative course but I can not see how this covid positive test can be anything but the final damning act of this four year circus of insanity.