The Red Sox are now 6-1 in spring training.

The Red Sox are playing some pretty darned good baseball and they are making me think that they have a great team. Hopefully this is a sign that we can expect an exciting season.

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I got home from work yesterday and got a reminder on my cell that I had a webinar to attend. I had forgotten all about it and since it was one of the presentations I was particularly interested in, I couldn't blow it off. It was a presentation on how to read the aeronautical sectional charts, including some of the more obscure items.

If you've never seen a sectional before, here you go.

The presentation lasted a lot longer than I thought it would. It was scheduled as a one hour presentation but then the two FAA Safety Team guys stayed online for an additional hour taking questions.

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Here are a few links that I managed to find this evening:

• Only in Florida.



• I thought the purpose of flying a drone is so you, the pilot, can remain safely on the ground?



• He is, at the very least, a pretty darned supportive husband.



• I thought the Irish loved incessantly reciting poetry?

Sitting in a webinar this evening

The FAA is teaching me some stuff so I won't be posting anything this evening.

Have a good evening.

The Red Sox are now 4-0

They kinda beat the crap out of the Pirates today.

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Not much to prattle on about today so how about we just get to some links:

• I'm betting doctors didn't worry about stuff like this before the internet.



• 24 carat gold vibrators would be a fantastic name for 1980s punk band.



• If you think about this, you'll see he actually makes a valid point.



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

The Olympics are now over.

I'm hoping that NBCSN, the NBC Sports Network, covers curling again this year.  It was fun finding that on television every once in a while.

I kind of miss the old days when they had shows like "ABCs Wide, Wide World of Sports" where Jim McKay would give a brief intro while we all watched that poor SOB fall of the edge of the ski jump and slam into the ground like a rag doll.

That was a great show that tried to show a lot of different sports like ski jumping and bobsled racing. Seems like all they show on tv anymore are team sports like baseball, football and basketball.

Don't get me wrong, I like watching the team sports but there are ton of other sports going that aren't golf or tennis. It might be interesting to see them occasionally.

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The Red Sox are now 3-0 in spring training and so far, I like what I am seeing from them.

The youngsters seem anxious to get a shot to play and the veterans are playing hard so they don't lose a spot to some hot shot kid.

And that is how it should be.

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We have been collecting quotes on replacing our antique furnace and so far, it looks like we are about to become poor.

Man, those things are expensive.

And the higher the efficiency rating, the more expensive they are.

But what the hell, if you want heat and hot water, you need a decent system. If you want to keep you monthly bills low, high efficiency is the way to go.

We'll see what happens in the spring because the one decision we've made so far is that we are not going to be doing this when the temperatures drop into the thirties at night. No sense freezing our butts off for a day or two when waiting until late May, early June means no freezing.

We like not freezing.

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You can click on these if you like:

• Happy Valentines Day honey! I got you this chocolate-covered card....



• Dianne Feinstein is a joke and the California Democratic Party finally figured it out. Then again, the guy running against her doesn't sound like a reasonable human being either.



• The Broward County Sheriffs Department is looking pretty bad in this.



• Then again, the Mass State Police aren't shining too brightly lately either....

Special Edition!

You get an early morning update today because something special happened last night: The US mens curling team won the Olympic gold medal !!!

I'm pretty sure that is the first time the US, either men or women, has won a gold medal in curling since it was made an olympic sport back in 1998. The men did win a bronze back in 2006 but that was the only other time they medaled.

So now it's time for me to put away my curling enthusiasm and start focusing on the great sport of baseball. I get to watch my first Red Sox game at 1:00 today and I'm hoping I get to see a good game.

Spring training is always interesting because you never know who is going to be playing. I might see a bunch of guys with uniform numbers above 80 out there, stumbling around and looking like a bunch of little leaguers or I might see a field of veterans having a good time and struggling to relearn their skills.

Either way, it'll be fun to watch.

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I'll be back later with my usual update.

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And I'm back.....

Walt and his wife were at the game.

Their seats are located just behind third base and he told me they extended the safety netting well past third. They now sit behind the net and I don't think he's happy about that.

Two baseballs were hit right towards him that normally he would have tried to catch but today, they ended up in the net. He said he doesn't even bring his glove anymore.

Our society has safety nets for everything now.

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Enjoy these links:

• Australia: What doesn't kill ya sets everything on fire.



• Yes, alcohol was involved.



• This is why they invented the internet.



• Nap time.



• Well, this seems like a really bad idea....



• There just might be hope for our species after all.