My lawn is a mess

On the one hand, my lawn is nice and thick and green.

On the other hand, it is covered with leaves that have blown over from my neighbors yard and his oak trees.

At some point, the wind will stop blowing and maybe my lawn will stay reasonably clean. Until then, I just need to stay on top of things so I don't get overwhelmed.

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We were briefly the proud owners of a functional washing machine this afternoon.

And by "briefly", I mean long enough to get three loads of laundry done before it decided to once again flash some innocuous error code and shut itself down.

I have a text message into the repair guy but if I don't hear from him soon, I'll give a call to the company and start this whole, "My washing machine is broken" gig all over again.

At this point, I'm about ready to trash the thing and get a new one but since this one is only about 18 months old, that seems like an incredible waste.

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The Bruins will take on the Islanders this evening and I would really like them to repeat their last meeting when the Bruins beat the Islanders 5-2.

A win tonight moves them up the standings into a decent position and that will make me happy.

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The Red Sox have signed Jarren Duran to a one year contract which means they have svoided arbitration.

In the long run, avoiding arbitration doesn't really matter because I suspect the Red Sox will be trading Duran.

He is an outfielder on a team with two Gold Glove outfielders and a third outfielder who has been nominated for Rookie of the Year. That leaves him as the odd man.

Then again, what the hell do I know. Maybe they'll trade one of their gold glovers...

In other Red Sox news, they have declined to pick up the option on Liam Hendricks which is not surprising at all. As a matter of fact, I would have been very surprised if they had kept him.

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Here are some links:

• I will never forget the time he shot an old lawyer in the face.



• The Very Stable Genius is going to have an apoplectic fit if the socialist wins.



• Key phrase in this story: "...attempted to keep a straight face during the first day of his criminal trial."



• Here's your Naked Guy In The News story.



• Speaking of Naked Guy In The News...



• Seems to me that Brazilian police might need some military support.

I hate the time change

I may have mentioned 50 or 60 times in the past that I really dislike the changing of the clocks.

I'm not entirely sure what purpose it serves other than to make me crankier than I normally am.

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Over the last two days, the Bruins have been bumped down two spots in the standings but that is because they have played the most games in the league.

If you look at the standings you will notice that they have 14 points which puts them in a 3-way tie for 3^rd place but they have played more games than anyone else. They have the same number of wins but more losses so they are a .500 team.

I expect that will change over the next week or so. Hopefully the change is the win percentage and points going up...

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Here are some links:

• So I guess PopEye Patel wasn't lying the other day.



• Speaking of PopEye, he takes after his boss.



• The Red Sox are in need of a third baseman.



• Charging him with a felony proves that the Trump administration is crazy but this idiot lost his job and his $10.00 sandwich because he can't control his emotions.



• I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I can't help but wonder if The Very Stable Genius and BrainWorm Bobby had stock in Kimberly-Clark and they purposely drove Kenvue's stock price down with their idiotic autism claims.



• This man is insane and someone should put him in a safe place before he kills us all.

My gutters are clean

I went up on my roof this morning and got my gutters nice and clean.

I figure they'll stay that way for at least a whole day before I have to think about going back up there to clean them out again.

I will be damned glad when the damned leaves are off the damned trees..

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The Patriots continued their winning ways, beating the Falcons 23-24 this afternoon.

The spread should have been greater but Maye got stripped on a sack and the Falcons recovered the ball. They scored a touchdown on the next drive.

Another turnover came when the Falcons rushed Maye, had him surrounded and he ended up tossing an airball that got intercepted. This resulted in an eventual field goal by the Falcons.

The Patriots take on the Buccaneers next Sunday. Kickoff is at 1:00 which means I will once again be able to watch all four quarters

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I managed to watch 5 innings of baseball last night and when I went to bed, the Blue Jays were up 4-2 over the Ohtani's.

When I woke up this morning, I discovered that the Ohtani's are World Series champions, beating the Blue Jays 5-4 in 11 innings.

Whatever...

So anyways, now that the World Series is over with, teams and free agents will begin negotiations. I really hope Breslow and ownership have the same goal in mind that I have - to win the World Series.

Do I think they can do it with the youngsters they have? Maybe but probably not.

Do I think they can do it by paying a bunch of free agents a lot of money? Also maybe but they better be the worlds best free agents.

Do I think they can do it if they combine their youngsters with a nice group of veteran free agents? Absolutely

Breslow needs to be particular who he brings in. He made some bad choices this past season (Matz and May come to mind) so I'd like to see him find the best fit.

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Here are a few links:

• For a guy that avoided military service by faking some kind of weird chronic problem, he sure likes to go to war.



• If you are planning on flying anywhere in the near future, you might want to think about driving.



• I'm beginning to think it's a race to see who goes first: The Very Stable Genius, Bubba or Goofy Joe. My money is on Goofy Joe.



• Bill Maher looks more like Barry Weiss from Storage Wars than Barry does.

Another win

The Bruins beat the Hurricane 2-1 this afternoon and are now in 3^rd place in the Atlantic division.

They played well today. They played like a team destined for a playoff spot. Hopefully they can keep playing that way.

Next game is Tuesday against the Islanders. Puck drops at 7:00.

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Something very large fell in our neighborhood around 10:30 last night. It was big enough that when it hit the ground, the house shook.

Fortunately, it didn't fall in my yard or in any of my immediate neighbors yards but when I went outside to look around, I could smell pine. And not like those cheap carwash air fresheners, I mean real pine.

My guess is that someone in my neighborhood is now the proud owner of a few hundred board feet of white pine.

My next door neighbor did have a tree fall this morning but it was an already dead oak tree in the woods behind our houses. No damage was done and it was no big loss.

Wind is an amzing thing.

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Our new control board showed up this afternnon and we now have an appointment for Tuesday morning.

Hopefully this is the final repair of this washing machine because if this doesn't fix it, I'm thinking it might be time for a whole new machine.

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The Ohtani's managed to hold off the Blue Jays last night and tie the series 3-3.

They play the final "winner-take-all" game tonight at 8:00.

I'll probably watch a few innings but if I don't, I'm not gonna worry about it. It's two teams I don't really care about.

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Here are some links:

• The world is filled with crazies and no one is paying attention to them. Time to stock up on ammo.



• He just loves gold. How much is all this shit costing us?



• Great. As if we didn't have enough to worry about, now we got collapsing crust.



• The football wizards are predicting the Patriots will beat the Falcons.

Good game.

The Bruins managed to give up the lead in the 3^rd period and regulation ended with a 3-3 tie. Then, with about 3 minutes left in the sudden death OT period, they scored and won the game.

There was, however, an injury to a Bruin that might impact the team over the next few weeks.

On the upside, they are now in the middle of the pack in the Atlantic division.

I can live with that.

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The other day, our esteemed governor, Maura "I know what's best for you!" Healey, was asked about the hiring process for her staff and she said, "That individual underwent a complete background check."

It's my guess that she might have lied about that.

Either that or she has no clue at all about the hiring process in her office and is just making shit up in her mind. If that individual had undergone a "complete background check", they should have noticed the drive-by shooting arrest back in 2001...

Unless of course by "background check" she meant, "We asked him if he had ever been a naughty and he said no."

I still don't understand how any organization that has been in existence as long as the Massachusetts government can be so inept at the little things like making sure the governor's aides aren't career criminals...

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The Small Dog was back with us again today and she was dressed appropriately.

I can say in all honesty, I miss having a dog in the house.

I'm never getting another dog because they require a lot of attention. Mainly because they don't have opposable thumbs and as such cannot open the door themselves to go outside and pee but I still miss having one.

Another reason I'm reluctant to get another dog is because Our Large Main Dog, Kirby, was a fantastic dog who rarely, if ever, did anything bad. I mean, other than eating two remote controls, a full roll of paper towels, an entire liter of cola and a large section of our family room rug, he was a great dog.

If my wife went outside to work in her gardens, Kirby followed her out and lay down right next to her. He felt he had two jobs: Protecting her and keeping her company. Those where his jobs and he did them with a passion. He listened to what we said and did what we asked him to do.

Having The Small Dog with us is nice. As I type this, she is curled up next to my wife on the couch. My wife is reading and The Small Dog is snoring and probably drooling because she's a dog. It's one of the things they do. That, and farting but if she was farting, we would know it because there is nothing more potent than a dog fart.

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Well, time to start paying attention to my door. We have a batch of little kids in my neighborhood so despite the wind, I anticipate some trick-or-treaters this evening.

Here are some links:

• I'm kind of surprised that they haven't fired their coach yet.



• I don't believe him. He lies all the time.
  And apparently I'm not the only one with a low opinion of him.



• Dammit...



• You know what? Just feed the people for christs sake. We don't need people begging for food on street corners. We're better than that.



• If you need help naming your baby, you should not be allowed to have children.



• This is probably not going to end well.