Hello everyone, I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and if you celebrate, are having a Happy Hannukah. With 2025 rapidly approaching, I thought I would wrap up the year with some random thoughts that are going through my mind this very late Sunday night.
Starting with my favorite football team, well thanks in part to a good luck duck, the Bucs slaughtered the kitty cats from Charlotte 48-14. That, combined with Washington's 30-24 overtime victory on Sunday night over Atlanta, gave Tampa Bay the lead in the NFC South. A win next week over the sorry freaking Aints at Ray Jay will give the Bucs an unprecedented (for them) fourth straight division title and fifth straight playoff appearance. Kinda fun to be a Bucs fan since COVID struck to be honest. As for the duck, it was rescued, but there was no word if it could be an honorary mascot (like DJ Kitty with the Rays) or if the team will be sponsored in part by Aflac insurance or Dawn dishwashing detergent.
What the hell has been going on with the world's airlines lately? In the past week, there have been for incidents; one was shot down by the Russians, and THREE instances of planes running off runways, one of which resulted in numerous fatalities. Once again confirming my fear of flying because if something goes wrong, chances are the only place to go is down, unless it can make an emergency landing somewhere, and as the case with the Jeju plane, even that isn't a guarantee that you'll survive. I haven't flown in 32 years, and as of right now, I have no plans of taking a flight. The last time I thought about flying somewhere, it was impractical for me to do so, and the time before that was just before 9/11. So, don't expect me to fly somewhere in the future, although things could change...
2024 for me was a roller coaster ride of sorts. Started out rather high, then fell off really steep around my birthday. Then had twists and turns and up and downs throughout the rest of the year. Really good in August and September, dropped really low in October and much of November, but had a pretty good December and am hoping to start 2025 off strong. Several factors played into that, I'm not going to say exactly what those are. However, I am looking forward to a massively great 2025. I didn't write on this blog as much as I had the last couple of years. That needs to change, regardless of how many people put eyes on this blog, which had truth be told gotten me a bit depressed because I want to be heard and not as much as a hermit that I may seem to be...
Speaking of which, it's already December 31, and I'm unsure what I'll be doing at this time tomorrow. More than likely I'll be watching the ball drop on TV and listening to the "Battle of Spring Hill"(fireworks going off throughout the neighborhood). I hope that this upcoming year won't be as full of obnoxiously bad commercials (but I doubt it) and perhaps a lot of optimism (did I just say that?), even if there are inmates (Squealon Muskrat) running the asylum in Washington, DC. Then again, what else is new? If this last month has told us anything, we should get our popcorn ready for post-January 20.
Lastly, I have to pay my respects to the late Jimmy Carter. He lived to be 100, which is older than any former President in US history. He was the first president I remember hearing of, because I was too little to remember Nixon or Ford. My late mother would always complain about her soap operas being interrupted in around 1979 when he was drafting the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. Then he was defeated by Reagan in 1980, and he was mainly forgotten about. But he did more post-presidency than perhaps any other former president. He won a Nobel Peace Prize. He helped Habitat for Humanity in helping build a lot of homes. He monitored elections in fledgling democracies. He wasn't the best President over the past half-century, but he may have been the best human being to be in that role, perhaps ever. He will be sorely missed but his legacy will endure.
Well everyone, have a happy and safe New Year's Celebration and I'll see you on the flip side...
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