Random items

So I really haven't had the muse for a post this week, but since that's never stopped me, let me talk about nothing at all for a while:

ITEM: So we're all kinda patiently awaiting word on the latest of my vast array (this will make 2) of grandkids.  Apparently this one wants to be like his dear ol' dad- who took 14 hours to finally peak out of his warm surroundings.


ITEM:  Just saw a new post on FB.  Wasn't a baby announcement.

ITEM:  So I have officially notified the Miami Dolphins that I am declaring myself a free-agent fan.  Their lack of anything resembling an effort is the worst I have seen in my entire life, easily beating the winless seasons of the Lions and Browns of recent memory.  I have shared with the NFL that I am available for fan duty, NY Jets need not apply.  I have tried various less than serious ways to determine a new team, including most players on the roster named Martin (Houston has 2), most players with my birthday (one each for the Browns, Jaguars, and Chiefs), and even adding up the players from colleges I like and subtracting those from colleges I hate (Which gave me a solid win for the Ravens, but there is some controversy as I was sticking players DEN for Denver and TEN for Tennessee in the same slot.)  I'm leaning towards the two teams which employ the two Heisman winning QBs from my beloved Sooners- Cleveland and Arizona- but as these teams have a track record of being run in as dimwitted a fashion as the current Dolphins, I'm a bit gunshy.


ITEM:  I was going through the spam comments in the blog filter, but really didn't want to do a whole post on that.  Among the things I will mention:

- I have two different comments in Russian (Cyrillic).  One is for getting a Domino's Pizza promotional code; the other wants me to get a code from "Papa Jones".

- Several comments in what Google Translate tells me is Persian (aka from Iran).  One said along the lines of, "You look like you're holding a plane ticket".  The next was like, "I'm leaving this plane ticket right here."  The third was a big paragraph on orthodontia.

- two of the newest ones briefly tried to interest me in a sex toy; one of them then went back and forth between sex and comparing Donald Trump to the dictator in China (complete with wanting Trump to ban Winnie the Pooh); the other was mainly talking about some weird sexual fantasy, briefly interrupted by trying to wean themselves from "ortho try cyclen".

- other such patchwork comments included ways to get rid of earwigs, comparing "girley" shows to "minstrelsy" shows, lace wigs, and crocheted wild animals.

- The rest were basically the usual "wholesale NFL jerseys (No Dolphins, please)", "online casino games", "great article, I've bookmarked your page", and "there seems to be a problem with your browser." 


ITEM:  I definitely considered doing a MWN post on "items that are not news", since Fox had stories about Lori Loughlin's daughter taking her bird-flipping post off instagram (glad to see she's putting that fine USC education to good use), the Navy making some astonishing admittance about UFOs, and a guy who just had surgery to remove what appears to be a horn from his head- all in their first ten stories.

ITEM: 2 more posts on FB.  Just a friend and I communicating through GIFs.


ITEM:  Apparently last weekend, our neighboring high school's brand new bleachers were vandalized by the visiting team, some of it the idiot students posted on social media.  Before the social media part was public knowledge, I wondered how it was that students who presumably don't COME to games with tools and such were able to hand-remove the bolts they were supposedly removing.  Today, the victimized school announced that "some bolts may have been left behind by the contractor", and alleged burn marks were identified as "oxidation" not noticed by said contractor while assembling the bleachers.  I'm thinking if they hadn't blamed it on the kids right off, they might have had a bit of a lawsuit on the contractor.  But seeing's as nobody from the school inspected the bleachers after completion and before actual use, that ship has no doubt sailed.

(BTW:  The two schools in question are two of the 3 or 4 richest in the area.)


ITEM:  Just sent Laurie for McDonalds.  Have a good evening!