Good Riddance To A Horrible Year

The only way 2024 could be any worse would be if the world ends!

Elvis Merzlikins VS Tim Wilson-Caps VS Blue Jackets

 

A Wacky Holiday

In 1985, my Mom won a cruise  to the Bahamas from her job.  Because it was just a trip for 2, I had to stay home.  I wanted to stay home with my sister Lori, but she was a bit of a wild child, and Mom didn’t trust her. Option number 2: stay with my sister Julie in West Virginia.  The only problem with that was that around Thanksgiving time, Moorefield was hit by a flood and just about wiped off the face of the map.  “it’s only for a week, it’s not going to hurt you, check out some books from the library and take your homework with you if you have any,” Mom said.  So, that was a very boring Christmas vacation for me, as you can only read so much and watch so much TV, because that’s about the only things I could do.  OK, now enough about me (for now), so on to the fun stuff…

 

To get to the cruise ship, Mom and Dad had to fly from Dulles Airport to Miami.  Dad found out really fast that he was afraid of flying.  Mom said, the longer the flight went, the greener Dad got, and the longer it went, the more a guy in the next aisle drank.

 

So they made it to Miami, got on the cruise ship, and had a good time, but when they returned to Miami, Dad said “you can fly if you want, but I’m not.”  So they looked for a car, but the only thing they could find was a U-Haul truck, so they drove it back hone to Fairfax to get their car and then drive up to Moorefield to pick me up.  A large truck hauling just them and 2 pieces of luggage.

 

Now for a funny postscript:

 

When we got back home, I was totally exhausted, so I went to bed. When I was a kid, I slept pretty soundly, and when I woke up, I had a habit of losing all sense of time.  So I get up sometime in the night, thinking its maybe 1 or 2 in the morning to go to the bathroom, I noticed that the bathroom door was shut, but being half asleep, I did nothing but open the door and…

I get hit by a blast of stem, and see a figure wrapped in a towel ,and immediately begin screaming my  lungs out.  What has happened was that my sister Lori had put a piece of wood into out wood stove that was a bit to big for the stove or at a bad angle and knocked the stovepipe lose a bit. Dad had fixed, it got ashes and soot all over himself, and took a showe to clean up.  So quite a fun time for all hehe.

So What You Gonna Do, Texas?

Set up roadblocks at all exits to the state and make every woman travelling in a car take a pregnancy test and keep them from leaving the state if they are?

Boston-Forplay/Long Time

 

Doing The Right Thing

So what was President Biden supposed to do, totally abandon his son who had an addiction problem?

The Rich Get Richer

With the signing of Shohel Ohtani, the best player on the face of the Earth to a crazy 700 million dollar contract, the Los Angeles Dodgers are now  the favorites to win the World Series next season.  Even if he’s not going to be able to pitch next year due to surgery on his elbow, Ohtani can be counted on to give you 40 plus homers and plenty of steals.  Combine him with Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy and others,  the Dodgers will be hard to beat. This coming from an Orioles fan!   Speaking of which, Baltimore’s front office needs to be ready to hand out some serious coinage to Adley Ruschman, Gunnar Henderson, and Kyle Bradish in 5 or 6 years when they reach free agency.

You Know You're Getting Old..

 When people prominent in the news when you were a kid in the 80's, such as Rosalynn Carter, Henry Kissinger, and Sandra Day O'connor are dying in their 90's.