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I could be fairly sports out by
midnight tonight. I remarked to my wife a couple nights ago that with the end
of the baseball regular season a little more freedom was inserted into our nights. That freedom will be completely squashed today with a Red Sox playoff
game at 4pm, the Bruins season starting at 7pm, followed shortly thereafter by
the Patriots game. I keep telling my kids that they should revel in these days
for New England sports because the unprecedented success they’ve grown up with
is certainly not normal. I’m here to tell ya, as a kid who grew up in the the
1960s when the Patriots were a joke and the only team with any sustained
success was the Celtics with the exception of the magical year of 1967.
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| Playoff Beard Progress - Today's Game Will Determine a Lot About How Long it Survives |
I didn’t get a chance to talk with the
FBR last night as her mom had a late commute in from the city. Wingman helped assuage
a little bit of that pain with a couple pictures and this video which includes
some slo mo. My wife is decisively engaged with Panama trip preparation. She
goes down on Monday for three weeks. There will be a special church service on
the one year anniversary of my father in law’s passing that she wanted to be
down there for. She’ll also be accepting delivery and installation of furniture
and appliances for the condo, including spending the night there for the first time
ever. Little jealous but the bad cinema project should fill any gaps in the social
calendar.
Nelson Demille is one of my favorite
authors and he finally produced another book which I devoured in the usual
fashion whenever he does produce. The Cuban Affair features a new hero,
Mac, a former Army vet wounded in two tours in Afghanistan running a charter
boat out of Key West. He gets drawn into a hair brained scheme to enter Cuba
and retrieve some pre-revolutionary assets. The person who does the drawing is
a beautiful Cuban exile. As with Demille’s earlier hero, John Corey, Mac is a
huge wise ass and Demille’s sneaky wit made this a completely enjoyable read.
He’s just funny and since I also have some experience of the pitfalls of Army
vets romancing Latina women a lot of the joking fell close to home. The time spent
in Cuba dodging the deeply embedded Cuban security apparati, interacting with
the snooty Ivy League tour group as their cover, while simultaneously romancing
his lady created a non-stop adventure that was truly hard to put down. It was typical
Demille - funny, well-paced, full of suspense, not knowing how the heroes can
survive. Now I’m stuck waiting for his next novel to appear. Hopefully Mac will
be back as well.
The Bad Cinema project count rises #25
out of 100 with Assignment: Outer Space, an early Italian sci fi disaster.
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