There was golf today

We played our usual 9 holes of golf this afternoon and it was, as always, a good time.

We aren't good at it and we'll never be invited to play professionally but we laugh a lot and solve all of the worlds problems.

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After golf I had some things to get done so that explains why this is both late and short.

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Here are a couple of links:

• Hey! The Beach Boy and his group of studio musicians will be performing at the Big E this year.



• You just gotta love dogs.

Abnormally dry?

I'm going to call bullshit on this

The ponds and rivers in my area are all pretty high. The small streams and creeks we have around here are also all running strong. The grasses are green and thick, the trees and bushes are all in full bloom and it rains at least 3 times a week.

How the hell can we be "abnormally dry"? What is considered normal?

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Dementia Donny's war is still going strong.

I'm thinking of writing a children's book. I'm gonna call it The Very Stable Genius and His Big Beautiful Better Than Anyone Else's War.

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Gas prices continue to go up:

Pretty soon no one will be able to afford to go anywhere and all those businesses that demanded people "return to the office" are going to find themselves short-staffed.

Oh, and it was announced yesterday that the United States National Debt has exceeded the United States Gross Domestic Product. For those of you that don't understand what that means, trust me, it's bad. It means that the US income is less that its debt.

He's killing the economy faster than any other president in history. Even the DJIA isn't sure what to make of his policies:

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Here are some links:

• Microplastic: Is there anything it can't do.



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



• Key headline about really stupid people: Six people were injured in an explosion outside a Pearland mobile home when high-octane fuel was added to a fire.



• Somehow or another, I just know this is going to end up costing me money.

Bad things

The Red Sox lost last night, getting beat 6-3 by the Astros.

Early did not have a good outing but then again, the batters did not have a good outing either.

This afternoon's game was no better but it took them 10 innings to lose instead of just the usual 9 innings.

The Astros beat them 3-1 in the 10th, winning the series and sending the Red Sox back into last place in the American League.

Suarez was pitching very well but when he finished the 4th inning, he left the game with some kind of hamstring issue.

It's getting harder and harder to watch them play baseball simply because there seems to be no reason for them to play as bad as they are. I will, of course, continue to watch them, I'll just yell louder and use many more very bad words.

Tomorrow they start a 3-game series in Detroit against the Tigers. First pitch is at 6:40 and Tolle is scheduled to start.

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Here are some links:

• Once again, Lizzy "Hold on a sec, I'm gonna get me, um, a beer" Warren proves that she is not as smart as she thinks she is.



• Every time he talks about his war in Iran, all I hear is John Blutarsky in Animal House saying, "Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"



• New York City: It's not like it used to be.



• I'm beginning to think that maybe Psycho Vlad is losing his special military operation.

Nice win

Yesterday my son, his wife, my wife and myself all took our granddaughter to her very first Red Sox game.

The Red Sox gave her a nice little pin:

along with a small bag of dirt from the outfield and a bracelet proclaiming that she was a member of Red Sox Nation.

It was a good game to go to simply because it was a nice night and the Red Sox played some damned good baseball, beating the Astros 3-1.

My son had gotten a set of hearing protectors for his daughter (you can see one of them in the above picture) so she did not have to deal with the loudness of the park. As a matter of fact, she slept through a lot of the game. But when she was awake, she was fascinated by everything that was going on.

On our way to the game, we spotted a plane that was towing a sign. This is the sign:

Imagine being so upset about a game that you would be willing to spend hundreds or maybe thousands of dollars to tell the owner to do something that the owner will never do.

Some people have too much money...

As for today, things don't look as good for them. It is currently the 4^th inning and the score is 5-0 in favor of the Astros.

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While we were gone, The Very Stable Genius did not do anything stupi...

Wait.

Never mind.

Trump has announced that he is pulling 5,000 US troops out of Germany. This immediately sent the Europeans into a tizzy and Psycho Vlad into a happy dance.

Those troops have pretty much been the only thing keeping the Russians from mounting a takeover of most of eastern Europe.

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While were were in Boston, the Bruins decided it was time to go on vacation.

They lost the game to the Sabres 4-1, which means they lost the series 4-2.

As we are always known to say in Massachusetts when we are talking about our sportings teams, "Oh well, we'll get 'em next year!"

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Well, it happened. Gasoline has crossed the $4.00 threshold.

Fortunately for me and my wallet, my current automobile gets slightly more than 32 miles per gallon.

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Here are some links:

• I believe that "steal a jet ski while naked" should be an actual felony charge.



• I'm not a teacher so I don't know the situation but this seems like a severe over-reaction from old people that don't understand these new-fangled phone-puters.



• Remember when the US Navy was hunting pirates? Now they apparently are pirates.

Busy day, no post

Sorry about that