Augie

How many guesses do we get???

I’m curious, are you ever embarrassed by your owner? 😋

I meet an old college buddy for lunch about once a month. We go to the OK Cafe and we get a BLT on toasted sourdough bread….and it is delicious! Toasted sourdough is the way to go!

We’ve had more than our share. The last few years we’ve been fortunate, it seems.

On my most recent trip to South Beach I found that I could only order by pointing at the menu…..because I only speak English. And I was the only one who spoke English. As the old joke goes: Do you know the best thing about Miami? It’s so close to the United States! I am all for diversity, but South Beach isn’t what it used to be. Few things have made me more proud than hearing that the Rams had to go to a silent count when we came to visit! GO BILLS!!!

Just the smell of bacon in the morning is one of the greatest treats on the planet. It’s a Rosebud type of memory.

I went to one place where they thought they were doing me a favor by making the BLT all about the BACON. It was just too much. Hard to fit all that bacon in a human mouth. Almost like Captain Crunch tearing up the roof of your mouth. And it was dry. It needed more MAYO, and even some more tomato could have helped juice it up. They all need each other. I got a “California BLT” last week. I don’t hate avocado, but it makes a sandwich slip and slide so I had the avocado on the side and thought I had solved the problem. Nope. They replaced the mayo with some kind of nasty pesto. A BLT is not a BLT without MAYO!

I believe it was last Tuesday at Wegman’s.

Mayo is the best part of a BLT. Should it be a MBLT? I would use butter, my wife would spray some PAM on it and call it a day. I’m not sure if it’s a enough to keep the kids from eating it, but it will not quite make the gourmet joint’s menu.

By the time I pay for airfare, hotel rooms and a car rental, I see a bit extra for my game ticket as just one more drop in the bucket……generally. This year, due to other factors, I was not able to attend the home opener. BUT, I looked close enough to see that the hotel and airfare had spiked along with the game ticket. For just me alone it was going to be about $2,500+ for a long weekend in Buffalo to see the game. Atlanta to Buffalo round trip was over $800 the week before the game. Hotel had gone from about $250/night to $450/night. Game ticket was obviously obscene, even upper deck. I never looked at car rentals, but I bet they were going to screw me there too. Everybody sees an opportunity and wants a piece of the action. I freely admit, if I owned a hotel and could make an extra $XXXXXX, I’d have a hard time leaving that money on the table. So, I decide if I can justify it, and I just try to put the cost out of my mind and enjoy the experience. Had I not had a conflict, I would have done it anyway, but that probably would have stuck in my craw a bit, no matter how hard I tried. My wife might raise an eyebrow as well, but that’s life.

My road game was going to be Cincinnati this year. My buddy has season tix, and he’s been selling his Bengals seats for double face value. When the schedule came out I learned that the game was a Monday Night game (a good thing) on January 2nd (a bad thing). I think by the time the Bengals lose a bunch of games and people realize it’s cold out at night in Cincinnati in January, he will be lucky to find many takers. I’m on the fence, and it’s free for me. There are a bunch of factors, but they are generally pretty obvious and foreseeable.

Hopefully they don’t throw urinal cakes in the sinks. That seems to confuse people.

With the shortage of priests that currently exists, you’d think they’d be looking for new ways to bolster the roster. The last few guys they brought in were from Poland. Their English was less than good. My wife tried to calm the kids down at Mass one day and make them pay attention. The reply she got was “but I can’t understand a word he’s saying”, and might wife had to concede they had a point. Our kids had a married priest at one of their schools. His son was a classmate. Seemed odd, but it worked just fine, and we could understand him.

He put up ridiculous numbers, but I personally thought he looked terrible doing it. It was freaky in that regard. The ball just takes a long time getting there. He was like Lucky Fitzy for a quarter there, taking chances with his weak throws, but somehow just kept getting away with it! Fitz used to make me laugh with some of those tosses. .

I’m glad you’re not my dad. We have a long way to go, and many unknown obstacles.

I cannot tell you how glad I am that reporting stuff like that is not the only way we can put food on the table.

But he lives by the Factory of Sadness, so what do you expect?

Don’t they (or did they used to) have a “family section” in the end zone? I’m cool with the idea of a “sit your ass down” section, but I’m not sure how you enforce it, especially upon resale. There will always be “that guy” but a bunch of like minded people should be able to flock. I’d love that. Check that box on your season ticket renewal and voilà!

I’m afraid that is where the sniper rifle comes in? Just a guess, not an admission of any kind, in any state.

Oooh, Belichick has reached new heights! Lessening the booing is in chapter 2, section 5, part 3.

Those two guys don’t make much noise. I can deal with them.

No, they can be very hard to come by! I have been known to move a couple sections over (for the worse) to get something close to the aisle. I also tend to be a bit claustrophobic and I think that may be part of it, on top of the convenience. We all have our own quirks. Some are just quirkier than others.

Well, your big feet stepped on countless feet coming and going! I kid, I kid. When you gotta go, you gotta go. I wish the secondary market made if easier to tell which seats were on or near the aisle. I would pay a premium for that. I don’t mind stepping out of the aisle to let people pass. I absolutely HATE being in the middle and….”excuse me, excuse me, sorry about this…..”

In no way are you “probably more of the problem than the solution”. It’s an unfortunate condition. I’m sorry to hear that. Life happens to all of us, and we should try to be understanding.

Are you in the club seats, as I recall??? Is that why? If I’m annoyed by something, I look for a way around it. Where do they not annoy me would be the question. In the Club section or in my family room would be the answer, I guess.