From the ESPN article on the game:

Bingo. It also happens that my wife and I have very different palates. Hers is way more sensitive than mine to tastes and I think that comes from her love of cooking. Me, I just barely can taste the difference between red and white, and I love them both. Funny, I can tell the difference between cheap and expensive…

I really doubt there will be any more books. What would be the point? Winter has arrived and left. Cersei will be the next evil destroyed. Then what? 

Sadly, the book “1984" apparently is the model for Chinese government, with the addition of the requirement to discriminate against minorities. China makes Russia look like a bunch of neophytes.

Our bank no longer has tellers. Just little 8 little empty offices with conference desks and 2 employees for loan applications/credit card issues/lock box access. The only time I have ever been there in the last 9 years is to get my old credit card re-issued as my original had stopped working. (From overuse, probably)

I developed an age-related allergy to shrimp, raw fish, and all shellfish at around the age 31. Not life-threatening, just extremely annoying. On my 2nd date with my eventually-to-be-(and still is) wife, I accidentally spent an hour in the bathroom (more or less) after we got to her house. Her sister still loves to…

Yup. Evil does more evil comes as no big surprise.

I have always loved the relegation idea. The obvious problem with this idea is that the MLB teams all own the AAA teams. So, it would just be a double-switch, so to speak, with so many issues then rising. Still, the idea is just so awesome.

Nope. This show jumped the shark when the Monster appeared. Stopped watching a few episodes later. Enjoy and Good luck.

I do believe KC, MO was there first, sir. And, if I think it got the name from the Kansas river (Kaw), not the state. (And I think maybe there was already a Missouri City.) So, humph.

About 15 years ago, my mother-in-law suffered a big stroke. They gave her the Catholic last rites twice. They had to remove a piece of her skull because her brain was swelling. That piece was out, in a refrigerator, for 2 months. To make a long story short, about 9 months after her stroke, she recovered up to around 95…

But it would be nice if it were better than, say, Old Milwaukee. (Often on sale in the midwest US for $1/6-pack in the 80's. I knew raises were not coming soon when I discovered my company VP just drank OM and only when it was on sale.)

Well, I don’t need any of these. Not too surprised. I am retired. Mwa-ha-ha! (Sorry. May you reach these hallowed climes someday, also.)

Yeah, if the Va. & Md. officials want to see how big city transportation is done, they should London, Frankfort, Munich, or just about any European city. London, which does also have its own problems, has built 3 whole new lines, about 50 (guessing) stations, and 2 airports (I think) in the time the WMATA built (or…

If I travel 300 mi to see someone or whatever, where do I get a re-charge? Or if I need to drive 1000 mi to see relatives (that I can only stand being around every couple of years), where do I re-charge on the trip from say Washington, DC to KC, MO? What if I run out of juice at mile 310 because I wasn’t paying…

Baseball is making more money than it ever has before. There is really no issue other than owner greed. Really. All the rest is fake news at best.

I like books by intelligent and thoughtful authors, such as Brin, Hamilton, and (an author new to me) Rachel Aaron. I prefer any comics I read to be by similar authors. The Vertigo group did the Fables series of comics, which I very much enjoyed. Very nicely done with little soap opera. I would very much enjoy…

I popped popcorn in a kettle on a stove for more years than I care to admit (50+). My daughter bought me a plastic microwave popcorn popper for Christmas. I didn’t expect to like it, but the popcorn is great. (Just melt some butter in the same microwave after the popping.) So easy, and little mess. I am sold. (I won’t…

Well, this dinosaur would if, at my advanced age, I could actually grow hair on places other than my ears.

Thanks. It’s only “weird” to someone so very ignorant about the subject like me so definitely a poor choice of words on my part. I guess I was just wondering if testosterone levels were any sort of predictor for athletic success. Clearly, the subject is way more complicated than that. What people will do for “success”…