I’m here to talk about the draft

Today was my Fantasy baseball draft. For the first time since 1989 we have a new league, half the league seceded from the old one. We did not fire on Fort Sumter. As we don’t identify with the Confederacy we call ourselves the Rebel Alliance. Everything was held online of course. While I miss the in-person comradery and the food, not necessarily in that order, this was still great. There are advantages, while most of us live in greater New York we have teams in PA and WA. I did almost no preparation for the draft. I suspect my team came out pretty well. The new league has a wide age range, I’m the oldest at 63, the youngest is 15. I haven’t been the oldest in a group since I was spending time with Früheads. The name of my team is Gord’s Gold, just like my radio show. Here is your 2021 Gord’s Gold. The draft was online with a video chat going on simultaneously. What’s the fun of a draft if you can’t trash talk the other teams? We all sit around joking about life, the universe, and everything. That’s the best part of the draft.

I woke up this morning and thought my back was better. It’s not. It’s so bad that I’m foregoing today’s Donut Walk™. I to do that but discretion is the better part of valor. I’ll spend the day applying heat and cold instead. You are not supposed to get injured playing fantasy baseball.

One of my dinner staples is pork tenderloin. Last time I went shopping I made a mistake and bought pork loin. I had no idea those were different things until I started making the tenderloins regularly. Now I might be hooked on pork loin. The difference might be the way I cooked it. When I could make the tenderloin in the air fryer it was better than in the oven. Since then, I haven’t figured out the perfect timing. I might have just hit it with the pork loin. On the other hand, the difference might be the layer of fat that keeps the loin from drying out. What’s really weird is that it was tenderer than the tenderloin. I get four meals out of one loin or tenderloin. I made Rochester salt potatoes and garlic Texas toast with it. That was a scrumptious dinner.

I have an avalanche of new music to listen to as well as some old to review. I still haven’t decided what track to play from Tim Grimm’s new album, Gone. I also have new tracks from The Ladles, Charm of Finches, Arthur Davenport, and Ryanhood. Mediocre music is easier, I can tell it’s mediocre without giving I my full attention, and the poor I can just sample.  When it’s good I have to decide which of the many good songs to play.

I am finally making progress on not responding when people online say something stupid, especially about baseball. When they say “I don’t care about what the analysts say … “ That means they don’t care about reasoning, so why should I try and reason with them? If people haven’t learned to not believe in small sample size after a lifetime of being led astray by early season results, is my saying that going to help? It won’t. I’m learning to not respond but that doesn’t mean I like it. Part of me wants to say, “Wow this is just like when I was a kid, and the bad students would mock the ones that wanted to learn.”

I’m also learning, with more success, to not let people not talking to me personally, and even if it is personal, not letting it get me down. A friend posted this on Facebook.

I very rarely feel that way, but I often fear that people think that way about me. Reading this caused a dilemma. From my own mental health standpoint, I know this is not a rabbit hole I want to go down. These thoughts have put me in a funk for weeks at a time. Now when my thoughts go that way I put the breaks on. I know there are plenty of people that do want to talk to me, even if some don’t. Great, but once I got to that I wanted to write about the situation which makes me think about it again. I decided that if I get meta enough, writing about writing about it, that’s a reasonable compromise. I know that I’m not the only one that has these fears and it’s important that others know they aren’t alone. Hell, there might be some people that think, “Wow, even Gordon feels that way and everyone likes Gordon.” There are so many times that friends get on themselves and I think, “What are they thinking about? They are great.”

I have been having lots of sleep issues; that was one of the top motivations for my Donut Walks™. I was tied all day even after getting seven and a half hours sleep, maybe even eight hours. Since I’ve been getting outside every day things have improved. I got only five and a half hours of sleep last night and was fine with it. I woke up more than an hour before my alarm was set. The baseball draft was at 10 and I wanted to be finished with breakfast before then. I set the alarm for 9:00. I went to sleep around 2:30. I ended up waking up before 8:00. I got right out of bed and made breakfast. I have not been the least sleepy all day. Do other people make open breakfast sandwiches? The theory of breakfast sandwiches is that you can eat them on the run, they are convenient. There is more though, eggs, meat, and cheese on bread tastes good. When I make it an open sandwich, today’s was served on a piece of flat bread, I get the combo with runny eggs, which are the best. People have always served toast and such with eggs to soak up the eggs, why not just serve the eggs on top so it all gets soaked up? Breakfast makes me happy. Sleeping well makes me happy. Baseball makes me happy. Talking to friends make me happy, that makes this a good day.