Augie

A little inside joke with my wife from a dinner we had at an old blue hair place in Sarasota, the Bijou Cafe across from the Opera House. I don’t think we needed fake ID’s to get in, but we were the only working couple there at the time. A couple at the table next to us gets animated and we hear the wife say “Frank, you forgot your hearing aids, didn’t you?” Frank responds “WHAT???” I swear we still laugh at that, so we need to laugh at ourselves as well moving forward.

Serious (but silly sounding) question: What can’t you hear? I think I’m hearing just fine, but I often have a hard time picking the words out from the music and background noise watching a movie. I can hear my wife in the kitchen, but I’m not always sure what she just said. It’s not volume as much as clarity for me. This got considerably worse when we moved a few years ago to a house with higher ceilings. I know we need more fabric in here, because I can hear just fine in the basement acoustics with lower ceilings and fully carpeted. I’ve had a couple friends try hearing aids with varying satisfaction. Background noise in a restaurant or crowd is a frequent issue. I’m not far off from needing them myself, so I’m eager to hear what others have to say. I don’t even know the questions yet, much less answers. BTW - I don’t know if they are like that everywhere, but the Costco near us if full of saints dealing with my 97 year old mother and her basic hearing aids. They didn’t try to upsell to something fancy, and they have the patience of Job.

Physics does not apply downtown on the lake, but only if you are beneath a dome. That has been verified on the internet.

Elvis did it??? Trust nobody!

“The Sting” was the first “clever” movie I remember watching growing up. Butch Cassidy came a few years earlier, but I guess I was a bit too young to catch that live. Great stuff, even today.

Oh boy, and my hopes for the Bills were so high for this season.

Fine, but we know here to find you!

The condiment ceremony is typically about 90 minutes before kickoff, so yes, you’d need to get there a bit sooner just for that. Being your first time there is a whole lot more to soak up and enjoy. You came all this way, make the most of it and enjoy!

Years ago I worked with a young lady who was expecting her first child. She came to me one day to ask what it would be like, and I gave her some lame answer off the top of my head. A few hours later I went to her office and tried to do better. I said it’s hard to describe, but the highs will be higher and the lows will be lower when you have a child. Everything is magnified, and you won’t believe how much you can care for something even more than yourself. We’ve been thru the wringer with our kids, with both good and bad like most people. It’s not just one child who is affected by difficult things, it affects everyone in their universe. Life teaches you to heighten your empathy, because you know what it’s like to have something so dear to you struggling. I hope and pray that one day this will be remembered as “when we turned the corner.” .

Keon was a second rounder.

Sorry….new guy here…my bad….

It doesn’t matter if Brady and Bellichick never had dinner together, their souls shared that deep craving to skirt the rules to achieve a full life. I wouldn’t trust Brady for a second, and as an opponent I’d be aware of his presence and very careful what I shared.

I have an appointment with an ortho doc next week. They will confirm that my rotator cuff is currently shredded, then get me to PT. My goal is to do enough PT that I can get back on a tennis court and do my best, without having limitations (or pain!) created by my shoulder. It seems simple enough, but this is a battle I’ve been fighting for decades and I want to put it to rest. I just don’t heal the way I used to, so I need to make it happen.

If you go to Schwabl’s, it would be a shame not to have the German potato salad. I flew in a week ago today and took my wife there straight from the airport. Be forewarned, the building is so old the men’s room is no bigger than the bathroom on the plane….but at least it’s inside! There are a lot of great places for BoW and I tried several of them. There was just not enough time for all the foods I was craving!

Bigger guys generally do not move as well as smaller guys. Don’t try to lose sight of that, it’s an important point. Yes, they all need to read and react….then they need to get there. That is where speed comes in.

So, guys who can’t cover as well? It’s a balancing act.

Nothing personal, but I bet you’d get higher ratings amongst this crowd.

Somehow I get the impression you could be in any seat, and make it front and center.

Anything beyond beating the Dolphins on Thursday night in Week 3 is jumping the gun. If it’s music related, my wife seems to care about the SB halftime shows, but she also likes the commercials while I’m more concerned about the football. Just the football. .

Yes, it is a bit amusing. I don’t think there is a there is an actual point, it’s all shtick.

I don’t like when the love/hate pendulum swings too far one way or the other. I can see him having a hat trick with a false start, a hold and a drop on Thursday before getting injured in a freak Zamboni accident. I’m just looking for some balance.

Am I supposed to check in here every night and confess?

Bill Polian can see Lamar Jackson as a WR. We all have our hits and misses.

….and pray he doesn’t pull a hammy on that stretch run.