Greetings everyone. I was going to devote this blog post to the shenanigans of our governor, who I have no love lost for if you've seen my Twitter feed, over the past week in regards to Florida's astronomical COVID numbers, but that kind of negative news would only get me upset, and I don't want to post while I'm angry, so I'll devote my time to talk about something else.
The Olympics wrap up this weekend in Tokyo. For some, it's a sigh of relief because people have missed "The Voice" and "America's Got Talent" (I haven't). For others, it's a slight disappointment because let's face it, the Games do inspire countless people throughout the world. The most inspiring moment in my opinion came early this week at the long jump final. Long story short, Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim and Italy's Giamarco Tamberi were tied for the lead going into their attempt to jump 2.39 meters, which they didn't succeed in. Since those two competitors had zero missed attempts going into that height, the two competitors were set for a jump off, until Barshim asked if they could forgo the jump off and split the gold medal. What happened next was pure magic. It will be a moment that will live on in Olympic, and sporting lore, for ages to come.
This morning I woke up and chose violence...to my beard:
Don't worry, it'll grow back in time for the baseball postseason, and beyond 😉.
Speaking of violence, I had to break out the block machine this evening. Some annoying bot on Twitter thought it could catfish me hook, line, and sinker (sinker?), but alas, this person had a name of Natasha (no, not Natasha Natale of "Rocky & Bullwinkle"), but her handle name was YvonneC40284849 or the prototypical catfish bot handle of FirstNameLastInitialEightDigitNumber. That's almost an automatic block.
Hurricane season is starting to ramp up, but we have not had a named storm in the Atlantic basin since Elsa sloshed ashore in early July. However, don't let the lack of activity the last month or so fool you, it may get even busier than at first thought. And in case you haven't been paying attention, the world is literally on fire in certain places (California, Turkey, Siberia) and underwater in others (Germany, England), so mother nature is showing her ugly side in a ear unprecedented way.
I swear this month sometime I'll tell you that story of the girl I knew a long time ago. I believe her birthday is sometime this month; I was going to mention it a couple of weeks ago, but the Olympics started and I got sidetracked. I also might look for a new blogging platform, because this blog won't get monetized and I don't think I can say everything I want to say on here. I have a wordpress site, but I haven't taken the time to configure all the bells and whistles on it. Whenever I do, I'll let you know. I the meantime, later.
CT
