Another busy day

I spent the afternoon at the animal clinic my daughter works at installing a couple of data drops in the their offices. For my efforts, I received cheese cake.

Personally, I think anytime you can do a favor for someone and they pay you in cheesecake it's a darned good transaction.

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The Red Sox won last night and they won this afternoon. They are currently in first place in the wildcard race, on and a half games ahead of both the Blue Jays and the Yankees.

The Blue Jays are winning their game right now so if that continues and they come out victorious, the Red Sox will be one game ahead of them this evening. The Yankees lost today so they will remain one and ahalf games behind and out of the wild card.

The Red Sox have 12 games left in their season and they really need to win most of them to assure post-season play. They have a good chance of doing just that because four of the remaining games are against the Orioles, three are against the Nationals, two are against the Mets and three are against the Yankees.

The Orioles are beatable, the Mets are a sub-500 team and the Nationals are worse than the Mets. The only predictible problem are the Yankees.

It should be an interesting final two weeks to the season.

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The "mandates" that our government(s) are issuing about vaccinations and masks are all well and good. Hell, I think you should be vaccinated and I think you should wear a mask if you are in situations where you can't stay away from people you don't know. What I don't agree with is placing the role of "enforcer" on the over-worked, under-paid staff.

If the governing body puts a requirement in place they should supply the means to enforce that requirement. If the city, state or federal government has decided that people need to be vaccinated before they can go into a restaurant, a bar, a concert or a ball game, then that authoritarian body should provide adequate enforcement instead of penalizing the establishment for those fools who decide to go against the mandate.

And by the way, in this country, we do not have anything called a "mandate". We have laws that are enacted through a well-established process but this isn't a dictatorship where a single person (in this case, a mayor) can issue an edict and have it be law.

No, I don't have the answers, I just think we shouldn't be asking restaurant hostesses to protect us from assholes.

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While I watch bad television, you can look at these:

• The planet Jupiter spends a lot of time protecting the rest of the planets from the various little problems floating around our solar system.



• Australia: What doesn't try to kill ya, does your laundry for you.