Grandson’s Dominic and Tommy will compete in the State Trap Shooting Championship this weekend. Dominic won a State Championship two years ago. I understand that recently, Tommy (3 years younger) beat his older ‘brutter’ by breaking 22 clay birds versus Dominic’s 20 clay birds out of a possible 25.. Luck? I hear footsteps.
Your Mom and I were going to watch the 4th episode of the “Outlander” Saturday night. We have subscribed to Starz for the express purpose of getting the Outlander series. We could not get Starz. We got a big blank screen that said “try later”. Your Mom kept asking me, “what the Hell are we paying for”? Yes Time Warner was here yesterday and “fixed things”?
As you know I let my season tickets to UW football games lapse this year. Lots of reasons. Lousy non-conference games mostly in September. Extended football almost to December (cold, cold, cold). My one regret is that there are one or two really good Big 10 games that I do like to see. This year Ohio State comes in on Oct. 15 and Nebraska on Oct. 29. ESPN has seen to it in their infinite wisdom to schedule both games for Prime Time night presentation meaning they start a 7:00 PM. TV with it’s big money wins. I hate night games! The “bottom line” is that UW football has made it real easy to have no regrets about dropping my tickets. What ever happened to warm Saturday afternoon football? Beer drinking was a sport at the games. Young ladies got passed over the top of fans right out of the stadium. Rushing the field meant somebody got trampled. Ah yes, the good old days.
Sugar seems to be the target of health experts these days. Why not!. In the past, experts have targeted fat, carbs, calories, salt, and different additives including aspartame. My buddy, Warren Buffett (who owns 10% of Coca Cola) was asked about “why would he want to own a company that puts so much sugar in it’s products” Sugar can kill you! Buffett drinks 5 cans (12 ounces each) of cherry Coke every day. He has done this all his life (at least as long as he can remember). He is now 87 years old. He is happy, not to mention rich. He is not about to change. Obviously he has not succumbed to the dastardly evil presence of sugar. By the way, he owns SEE candies and DAIRY QUEEN which are loaded with sugar.
I am not an advocate of sugar, quite the contrary! I do think you have to take things in moderation, balance and use some common sense. Dah!
Love,
Dad