Between watching one of the last episodes of West Wing, I also watched the Nippon Ham Fighters KILL the Chunichi Dragons 6-1. The Ham fighters played great and the Dragons pitching staff literally fell apart getting two runners on base by hitting them with the ball. Meanwhile its all even
Author: Skippy-San
Hantai desu……….
In Japanese that means “opposed to”. I mailed my absentee ballot last week. It was definitely hantai. I voted against every incumbent, sadly in my state district there was no Democrat running. Which is no surprise since I grew up in a very conservative part of Pittsburgh where the residents
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Today was good day except for the rain that started on 16. Finished the round with 2 Pars which for me is nothing short of a miracle. Accordingly, I’m not mentally caged to jump into the serious end of the pool tonight. Tomorrow being Monday, maybe I can comment on
Continue readingLife is about choices………….
Some good, some not so good:
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Drinking 7 of these: Is probably not a nutricious dinner and a lousy way to deal with being pissed off at one of these: But its my way and its a lot cheaper than some of the other alternatives. Subscribe in a reader
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No post yesterday. Or the day before. For some unknown reason related to Blogger or my ISP, the site just would not load. So I finally gave up and went to bed. Went out to dinner tonight at a new Chinese restaurant. On the way home we stopped in a
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I came to realize yesterday, while I was driving back from the golf course, that this war does not have one. One of the great things about my new(used) car is that it has a CD player that works. So I can rock out during the extra time it takes
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My son called me at 4:30 this morning. Nowadays, when the phone rings in the middle of the night, I assume it can only be bad news. Fortunately, it was not; he just wanted to talk. Nonetheless it screwed me up sleep wise. So I popped in “Thank you for
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First the bad news………… THERE IS NO TOKYO AUTO SHOW THIS YEAR! Waaahhh! Waaaaah! Who the f**k decided to skip a year? So that means I will not be taking the train to Makahri Messe in 2 weeks so that I can drink beer and eye tech babes. On the
Continue readingSome great quotes………..
Read some great quotes that need to be repeated today: Under the category of keeping one’s eye on the real ball game: Finally, accept that Afghanistan will remain Afghanistan. It will not become Switzerland. Stop promoting things like “womens’ rights,” i.e. Feminism, that tell the locals we want to force
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