Free Write.
For whatever reason, the free write prompts were the one I didn’t lose. Go figure.
Thanksgiving was pretty uneventful. We have some leftovers. Not sure what we’re going to do with all of those yet. Still more than a fair amount of pie. My wife confirms again she’s not a fan of pecan pie, so I guess finishing off the three remaining servings of that I need to get through.
That would actually go okay with hot coffee for breakfast. Yes, a lot of sugar, but I’m tempted after I finish this.
The early football games are disappointing, mainly for the outcomes. Was happy to see the Bengals come through in the night game. I do like that the Bengals and Ravens, at least, are playing different-style football. (The loss of
Amon-Ra St. Brown on like on like the second drive of the Lions’ game probably killed one of my fantasy teams’ seasons, too….)
Let me look at some previous years and see if I can find something to recycle for today.
Ah, yes, there’s something from this day just before the hell storm started.
Let’s resample those questions.
1. What is the best birthday gift you ever received?
Odd question for this date, but I think I was probably going off suggestions provided as part of the OD NoJoMo push back then.
I recounted the CD player I got when I was an adolescent. I think I had something like five CDs
I do wonder if those are still in my brother’s basement. At the same time, are any of them from that vintage things I’d have that much interest in hearing?
Probably not. And I’m pretty sure I haven’t listened to any of the tracks on my own accord; do I even want to look up the one CD I’m thinking about?
Nope.
Do I not want to listen because I’ve overplayed those, or because I’d be disappointed by them?
I don’t know.
I do wonder, however, whether I’d hear something different today that’d impress me. I hear music differently these days; would I hear something I didn’t hear then?
Or would I be disappointed?
2. Write about your greatest fear.
The next question from that entry might capture development of some of my ruminations. I was, and still am to a bit, deathly afraid of being publicly-embarrassed
So many incidents in the intervening years.
But the tricks I’d developed quit working. It took me years to realize that those things had stopped working.
So, what else is on tap for today? Da Bears playing in Philly tonight. Actually could be a good game, but I’m having trouble caring.
Early piecing together contingency plans if my biggest issue isn’t going to be resolved satisfactorily. It does look like Perplexity might be able to help me mold something that’d work. But that’s a purchase for next month if I buy a month-long copy to do what I want to do.
Also looking at when would be a good time to go to Biloxi next Spring.
Also following along with most of the coverage that’s coming out about the DC murders on Wednesday.
There’s people who are saying that this wouldn’t have happened if OrangeManBad hadn’t deployed the National Guard to help organize the city.
Some of the man-on-the-street people interviewed seemed shocked and upset about it; how could this happen in my city?
Much of the coverage I watched on WUSA did try to shift the blame to Trump for even trying to fix the problems.
But these Guardsmen were shot by an Afghan on Temporary Protected Status….and was someone ferreted out following the oh-so-successful fall of Kabul in mid-2021.
He drove across the country to come to DC….just to shoot Guardsmen because Trump had deployed them?
Really?