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 Today hasn't been the best of days.  I could complain about our mess at work (and mess it is), but I gave it to God and ain't spending the 20% to get it back (see Wednesday's Bible study to figure that one out!).  I was just reading tributes to the late Joe Morgan, Reds 2B during the Big Red Machine era (aka the games I grew up watching).  All I can say is, if one of them was going to live forever, I thought it'd be him.

So I am in bad need of a cheer me up to talk about.  Let's spin around the webs and see what we can find.

One of the first places I USUALLY go for fun stuff in the news is a lighthearted (well, used to be) feature on BBC news called News From Elsewhere.  Today, we have a story about a Turkish teacher going door to door to his students during the covid lockdown- something I suggested the 'depressed pastors in Brazil' do a few weeks back.  Other than that one story, they've had no updates since August 5th.  Nice.

BBC reminds me I was looking at the international hockey leagues that I follow, to see how they were coping.  All of them save five are playing a postponement-riddled schedule right now.  The five not playing- the Asia League (Japan and Korea) have bagged any regular season and are hoping to have a tourney in March and April;  The British EIHL shut it all down for the year;  the German DEL hopes to start "Mid December at the earliest"; and two of the Canadian junior leagues will start the first weekend of December.  The third, the Quebec League, is playing and postponing already.

Which reminds me about our local team, the Fort Wayne Komets.  Their league is starting a 72-game, 13 team schedule in December for the teams that have clearance from their cities.  The OTHER 13 teams hope to start a 62- game schedule after the first of the year.  Here's the thing:  The Indianapolis team- in a city hit much worse with COVID than us- they get to start in December, we do not.  WTH, you say?  Basically without the long winded excuses, it boils down to this:  Indy gets concessions and parking lot money in their lease, thus they can meet attendance restrictions and still turn a profit.  Here, the Memorial Coliseum gouges the Komets, giving neither shares of concessions OR parking, so the K's can't turn a profit.  Good on you, Coliseum board, good on you.

Well, THAT certainly didn't help the mood; let's try a FB post from a friend's daughter (She's been an exchange student in Japan, but had to come home due to... well, you know why.  Anyway, she asked...

Japan friends! Today I learned about 厄年. Why is 25 and 42 unlucky for men and 19 and 33 unlucky for women? Why those specific numbers? Why is it different for men and women? Thanks!

My answer: "25 is when a man gets married, and 42 is when he wishes he had waited..."  I'm waiting to see who will zap me on the other side of the coin.

 

The Moscow Times says, "Russia Recruits Rare Dogs To Sniff Out Coronavirus as Second Wave Tightens Grip. "  This rare dog is a Lapponian herder-jackal hybrid used by Aeroflot for security.  While not amusing, it is amazing.

Well, anyway, time to give Misty her treats.Keep your heads up, pray for all men, and be here Wednesday to find out what that 20% is all about...