Thursday

Count me as among the readers who enjoyed Aunt Martha's Comment on her memories of school transportation.  Thank you for sharing.

I didn't watch the Presidential Debate last night.  I've reached the point where I even "mute" the commercial time on Wheel of Fortune as the political ads are just awful.  All this money, time and energy being expended for those precious few middle-percenters called "The Undecided's".  Think of all the teachers who could be trained and hired if the politicians could only spend money in support of public service endeavors.  Hmmm.  Not a bad idea.

I paid zero attention to the new MLB play-off format during the season.  The way things were prior to this year was that each league had three divisional winners and one Wild Card team.  So essentially, you had a Quarterfinal Round, the Semifinals, and then The World Series.  Usually when a major sports league (Or the NCAA) add another Round, money plays a role.  I'm not sure that a single, win-or-go-home play-in game between the top two non-Division winners in each League will be a windfall for anyone.  Do they really just want teams to have to keep playing hard until the 162nd game?

2 is headed into NYC tomorrow for an extended weekend with 3, 3.1 and 4.  That means that The Winniferous comes over to Maplecrest until next Wednesday.  With @srh4 going to a college reunion in Decorah on Saturday night, and me doing a lightning strike to Harvest Path Saturday evening so that I can be the primary support team for 1's marathon on Sunday AM, you could say that there are lots of moving parts in the fam these days.  (My PN and other friends will be on W Duty while I'm on the road.)

ND has one of it's "money" games this weekend at Soldier Field in Chicago.  Miami.  Curious opponent.  The series was discontinued years ago when it had become too contentious.  I guess enough of the protagonists have moved on.  And the money thing makes everything more palatable. But those special uni's look like the losing entry in a Community College design class.  Ugh.

Good luck to RevKev and crew, as well as Tahoe Phil, on travel to the Aloha State.  Rough duty.

Make it a Good Friday.

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