Thursday, 10/17/2019, 9:30 am –
“Yeah well, the Astros are playing tonight and I’ll be staying up way past my bedtime to watch that one. Rest assured I’ll be stupid and sluggish in the morning.”
“Well…..”
“Okay, just to clarify, I’m already stupid. I’ll just be sluggish on top of that.”
Thursday, 10/24/2019, 9:15 am –
“You know, the return on investment for staying up late to watch your team get smacked around like that does not rise to the occasion.”
It would seem that I had other contributions in the last two weekly department meetings at the cube farm, but the ongoing assault by Major League Baseball to the first few hours of my carefully orchestrated efforts to enter the on-ramp of a REM state on a school night is the only thing that resonates.
Now that I’ve composed the requisite attention getter of this post, I’m left with a quarter to flip to determine which way to take it.
The Astros are back in the World Series this year, and that fact alone brings two potential subjects to mind.
The last time they were there, it was the fall of 2017, and the level of tumultuousness in my life was more significant than what I was aware.
So I could talk about that, or I could rail against the NBA and NFL (been there done that, no longer wearing the t-shirt) and the reasons I’m not following either of those leagues at this point in my life.
*Flips a quarter and calls it*
“Heads on the ground.”
Ha! Thanks to contextual ambiguity, I win the toss either way the quarter lands.
After winning the toss and settling on this morning’s subject matter, I engaged in step 2 of my Saturday morning activities which followed the sharing of my lovingly slathered Everything Bagel with the dog. I took her to the dog park so that she could engage her fun factory in the extrusion of the digested contents of her innards. I then took her for a walk on the frisbee golf course.
As I traversed the walking path and kept a keen eye out for any rabid honey badgers stalking us from the forested perimeter, it occurred to me that the two choices of subject matter for today’s dispatch fail to rise to the occasion of occupying too much space here on TharpSter.org.
The only person who really cares about the events of two years ago in my life and how I’ve worked to resolve them is……
Me.
Just know that things are a lot better now and the trajectory is looking more positive.
Regarding the NFL and the NBA, what am I going to say about the NFL that I haven’t already said before? Where the NBA is concerned, I initiated a soft decoupling of the sport as Tim Duncan retired. Now that Tony and Manu are gone too, I couldn’t name one player on the Spurs.
When the NBA joined in on the protest about the National Anthem a few years ago, my decoupling intensified.
Now that their views on the whole Hong Kong and China situation are pretty obvious, my Spurs gear has been relegated to the back of the closet with my NFL gear, and are no longer in the rotation of my casual wear.
I had another epiphany this morning while admonishing the dog to cease her vain and ill-conceived attempts to dislocate my left shoulder. There is another topic which needs to be discussed in today’s dispatch. Furthermore, I’m going to use a lot of challenging imagery to make my point. Parents, you may want to send your kids to the other room.
For what it’s worth, the TharpSter Treadmill is usually better on a leash. Something was going on in that little skull of hers.
Maybe it was a rabid honey badger.
It crossed my mind that we need a cooling off period. By ‘we’, I don’t mean me and the dog.
Hang on, I gotta put the lights in the dryer and start a load of darks.
I’ll be right back.
*pause for effect*
Okay, I’ve cleaned out the lint trap.
Just to clarify, we as a country need a cooling off period.
Generally speaking, the heated mood revolves around the results of the 2016 election. There are some people who are really, really, really…….
Really….
Really…..
Pissed off that not only did Hillary fail to win the election, but that Donald Trump beat her. Furthermore, they can’t let it go and move on.
Since then, those who are really (x5) pissed off about the outcome have explored every option possible to reverse that result.
Even at the time of this writing while half of my darks are being agitated in a vat of hypoallergenic laundry pod flavored cold water, a series of secretive hearings designed to leak talking points to the media are being held in the basement of the US Capital by Adam Schiff and other members of his party. The goal of these hearings is to build a case for impeachment.
In the meantime, the White House is pursuing an investigation into meddling into the 2016 election. The President feels that there are several people among those who are really (x5) pissed off about the election outcome who may have been in on the meddling.
This is not going to end well. More so for one side of the conflict than the other.
The table is set and it’s time to share the epiphany I had this morning in the midst of a battle to the death with the rabid honey badger who mis-underestimated the ability of a 51 year old, dog walkin’ blogger to execute a five point palm exploding heart technique while listening to a Scott Adams podcast at double speed.
Speaking of which, the upcoming analogy comes from Scott Adams. I wish I thought of it, but I didn’t. That won’t stop me from using it though.
This whole argument about the 2016 election has become a taint. You have a dick on one side and an asshole on the other. Neither party can claim the white hat in this dispute, so it’s become something which lies between the dick and the asshole.
The taint.
What if both sides were to just cut it out?
What if the consortium of really (x5) pissed off people would stop with the investigations, the hearings, and other assaults on the 2016 election outcome, and just get back to work making ‘Merica the best country on the planet that they can?
What if the White House would stop fighting back with its own charges of corruption and collusion on the other side, and just get back to work making ‘Merica the best country on the planet that they can?
This country has plenty of problems to address and resolve without fighting over who won the election.
Just acknowledge that the continued attacks from either side of the fight will insure mutual destruction, and then just cut it out.
Did we learn nothing from the movie War Games?
Go Astros.
